Bin Xu
Professor
Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates
Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Academic Titles:Director and Founder, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Infrastructure and Monitoring of Fujian Province
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1972-03-04
Alma Mater:Ibaraki University
Education Level:博士研究生
Degree:Doctoral Degree in Engineering
Date of Employment:2016-08-01
School/Department:College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University
Business Address:College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University, Jimei Avenue 668, Xiamen, China
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Status:在岗
Other Post:Director and Founder, International Research Center for Safety and Sustainability of Civil Engineering
Administrative Position:Director, Key Laboratory
Discipline:Civil Engineering
Academic Honor:
2008 教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”入选者
2017 福建省“闽江学者奖励计划”特聘教授
Honors and Titles:
福建省引进高层次人才（海外B类）
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Journal:Applied Sciences
Abstract:Nonlinearity exists widely in civil engineering structures; for example, the initiation and growth of damage under dynamic loadings is a typical nonlinear process. To date, for the purpose of structural evaluation and a better understanding nonlinear characteristics of complicated structures, a number of parametric and nonparametric methods have been developed for the identification of nonlinear restoring force (NRF). However, due to the highly individualistic nature of nonlinear systems, it would be inefficient to attempt to express the structural NRF in a general parametric form. For many nonparametric techniques, their nonparametric models or approximations may result in undesirable results or oscillations around unsmooth points. In this paper, on the basis of extended Kalman filter (EKF), a model-free NRF identification approach is proposed to circumvent the limitations mentioned above. The NRF to be identified was treated as 'unknown fictitious input', and thus, no prior assumptions or approximations for the NRF model were required. With the aid of a projection matrix, a modified version of observation equation was obtained. Based on the principle of EKF, the recursive solution of the proposed approach was analytically derived. The NRFs provided by the nonlinear components were identified by means of least squares estimation (LSE) at each time step. Numerical examples, including building structures equipped with magnetorheological (MR) damper and shape memory alloy (SMA) damper, demonstrated that the proposed approach is capable of satisfactorily identifying NRF without knowledge or intuitive assumptions of any nonlinear model class in advance.
Indexed by:Journal paper
Document Type:J
Volume:9
Issue:2
Page Number:306
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2019-03-07
Included Journals:SCI
Impact Factor:2.838
First Author:贺佳
Co-author:张肖雄,齐梦晨,许斌
Dr. Bin Xu is currently the Minjiang Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering, a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government, at Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. He currently is the Director and Founder of the Key Laboratory for Intelligent Infrastructure and Monitoring (IIM) of Fujian Province, and the Director and Founder of the International Centre for Safety and Sustainability of Civil Engineering at Huaqiao University.
Before joining Huaqiao University, he was a Lotus Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering (a professorship appointed by Fujian Provincial Government) at Hunan University from 2005 to 2016 and was also the associate dean of the College of Civil Engineering at Hunan University from 2010 to 2016. He was also the Director of the Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Damage Prognosis for Engineering Structures from 2015 to 2016 at Hunan University. He taught and carried out research at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University as a Curtis Visiting Professor appointed by Purdue University in 2014-2015 academic year. He had been invited and financially support by European Commission to work at Sapienza University of Roma in 2010 and hired by University of Western Australia as a Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow from 2007 to 2008. Before starting working in China in 2005, he worked at University of Missouri-Rolla in US as a Post-Doc from 2003 to 2005 and at Ibaraki University in Japan as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003.
He has been the supervisor of 7 Ph.D., 1 Post-Doc, 4 international visiting students and over 60 MS students. All of his PhD students are working at universities. Dr. Xu has committed to securing competitive external funds to support programs, research, and labs. He has been the PI and Co-PI of 14 competitive government funded research projects including a China- European Commission international collaborative research project, an international collaborative research project between National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and National Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of US, and a number of NSFC research projects. He is also the recipient of Grant-in-aid of 7 talent programs sponsored by China Ministry of Education (CMoE) and other government agencies.
He also serves on various academic societies as Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor or editorial board member for international journals and professional committees as Standing Committee Member, Executive Member or Committee Members.
