Shangtong’s research interests focus on the deterioration of building materials and its effects on the structure/infrastructure. Understanding the materials properties and the deterioration mechanisms at different scales is key to determining the performance of civil structures in terms of both safety and serviceability. Specifically his research looks into three main areas:

• Corrosion of reinforced concrete structures and its effects on the structures, e.g., cracking of concrete, bond degradation etc. His strength in this area is modelling the cracking process and crack width of concrete under both reinforcement corrosion and applied load. A combination of analytical, numerical and experimental approaches has been adopted.
• Whole life assessment and management of infrastructure. His interest in this area lies in assessing current state of buried pipelines by appropriate monitoring approaches and developing rational tools for risk classification. A variety of materials are examined, e.g., cast iron, concrete.
• Multi-scales investigation of fracture of cementitious materials. This is his recently established interest and expertise is being developed. His research in this area is concerned with how cementitious materials are cracked at different scales under various conditions and how the engineering properties are influenced by the changes at nano/micro scale in a quantitative manner.

Research Group website: http://evxsty.wixsite.com/website

• Fracture mechanics
• Durability of reinforced concrete
• Failure prediction of infrastructure

• Structural analysis
• Building materials
• Fracture mechanics
• Finite element method

I currently teach:

• CL207 Structural Mechanics and Materials
• CL313 Structural Engineering