Shangtong Yang
Lecturer B
Personal Statement
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
Expertise & Capabilities
- Fracture mechanics
- Durability of reinforced concrete
- Failure prediction of infrastructure
Teaching Interests
- Structural analysis
- Building materials
- Fracture mechanics
- Finite element method
I currently teach:
- CL207 Structural Mechanics and Materials
- CL313 Structural Engineering
Publications
(17)Prediction of concrete crack width under combined reinforcement corrosion and applied load
Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Stress intensity factors for high aspect ratio semi-elliptical internal surface cracks in pipes
Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Weight function method to determine stress intensity factor for semi-elliptical crack with high aspect ratio in cylindrical vessels
Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Multifunctional properties of carbon nanotube/fly ash geopolymer nanocomposites
Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Activities
(3)International Conference on Infrastructure Failures and Consequences (Event)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Invited seminar to School of Civil, Environmenal and Chemical Engineering
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Invited presentation at the School Research Seminars, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Projects
(7)KTP - Inex
Project: Research
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTA - University of Strathclyde) | Romaniuk, Amy
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated › Research Studentship (Internally Allocated)
Prizes
(2)UKCCSC Travel Grant
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Best Staff Poster - £2k International Travel Award
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)