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

2008   教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划

2016   桐江学者

2017   福建省“闽江学者奖励计划”特聘教授

2017   厦门市双百计划

2017   福建省闽江学者-特聘教授

2018   福建省引进高层次人才

Honors and Titles:

福建省引进高层次人才(海外B类)


Paper Publications

Debonding detection for rectangular CFST using surface wave measurement: Test and multi-physical fields numerical simulation

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Journal:Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Abstract:The interfacial debonding detection approach for concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) members using surface-mounted piezoelectric-lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) actuators and sensors is experimentally and numerically investigated. In this study, an interfacial debonding detection approach using surface wave measurement with PZT patches is propoed firstly and experimental investigation on the feasibility of the proposed approach with two CFST specimens with different levels of interface debonding defects is carried out. For comparison, a PZT sensor is also embedded in concrete core to measure the stress wave traveling from the surface-mounted PZT actuator. Experiment results indicate that the voltage amplitude of the embedded PZT sensor representing the wave propagation from the steel plate into the concrete core decreases due to the existence of interfacial debonding defect, but the output signal of the surface-mounted PZT sensor increases accordingly when interface debonding occurs. Moreover, the increment of surface-mounted PZT sensor measurement is related to the dimension of the interface debonding defects. The experimental finding implies that the interface debonding is detectable using surface wave measurement. In order to investigate the mechanism of the proposed approach, numerical study on the wave propagation process in CFSTs is further discussed by using three-dimensional (3D) solid element models and two-dimensional (2D) plane strain models, respectively. Finally, in order to consider the effect of nonhomogeneous meso-scale structure of concrete on the wave propagation, a random aggregate method (RAM) is employed to model the concrete core and multi-physical fields coupling numerical analysis on stress wave propagation of the CFST member with different interface debonding defects is performed. The numerical findings meet well with the experimental observations and the results indicate that the interface debonding of CFST can be detected efficiently using surface wave measurement.

Indexed by:Journal paper

Document Type:J

Volume:117

Page Number:238-254

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2018-11-28

Included Journals:SCI

Impact Factor:8.934

First Author:陈洪兵

Co-author:莫怡隆

Correspondence Author:许斌

Profile

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.