General

Dr. Fan Yu

State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Address: 320 Donggang West Road, Lanzhou 730000, China

Tel: +86-931-4967273

Email: fan.yu@lzb.ac.cn

Education

--09/2008―07/2013, Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

   “Characterization and numerical modelling of embankment deformation of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway”

   Advisor: Prof. Ji-Lin QI

--09/2004―07/2008, B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China

Employment

--02/2022―Present Professor, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

--10/2017―09/2020 Postdoc, Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

    (Mentor: Prof. Pei-Jun GUO)

--01/2017―01/2022 Associate Professor, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

--11/2014―01/2015 Postdoc, Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

    (Mentor: Prof. Zhen-Yu YIN)

--10/2013―07/2014 Postdoc, Computational Geomechanics Group, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway

    (Mentor: Dr. Hans Petter JOSTAD)

--07/2013―12/2016 Research Associate, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

1. Fan Yu, Peijun Guo, SeonHong Na. A framework for constructing elasto-plastic constitutive models for frozen and unfrozen soils. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2022, 46(2): 436-466. 

2. Fan Yu, Peijun Guo, Yuanming Lai, Dieter Stolle. Frost heave and thaw consolidation modelling, Part 2: one-dimensional THM framework. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2020, 57(10):1595-1610. 

3. Fan Yu, Peijun Guo, Yuanming Lai, Dieter Stolle. Frost heave and thaw consolidation modelling, Part 1: a water flux function for frost heaving. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2020, 57(10):1581-1594. 

Research Interests

--Multi-scale and multi-physical modelling of frozen soils; 

--Frozen soil mechanics; 

--Cold region geotechnical engineering;