Research Areas

1.Structure health monitoring, damage detection, force identification

2.Mechanical properties of cement-based materials

3.Protective structure to resist blast

4.Mechanical properties of metal porous materials

Teaching

1.Fundamentals of Reinforced Concrete Structures

2.Concrete and Masonry Structures

Selected Publications

1.Hongyuan Zhou, Pengli Cong, XiaojuanWang*, Tianyi Song, Xin Huang, A dimensionless number for response of blast loaded steel plates,International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, (2021) 2150072.

2.Hongyuan Zhou, Pengli Cong, Xiaojuan Wang*, Yonghui Wang, Huliang Dai, Shangjiang Yu, Jianguo Du, Global response of underground structures subjected to ground shock with consideration of rise time, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 143 (2021) 106624.

3.Hongyuan Zhou, Xuejian Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang*, Yonghui Wang, Tianfei Zhao, Response of foam concrete-filled aluminum honeycombs subject to quasi-static and dynamic compression, Composite Structures 239 (2020) 112025.

4.Xiaojuan Wang, Guangcai Zhang, Xiaomei Wang, Pinghe Ni*. Output-only structural parameter identification with evolutionary algorithms and correlation functions,Smart Materials and Structures 29(3) (2020) 035018.

5.Xiaojuan Wang, Lu Liu, Wenjing Shen, Hongyuan Zhou*.CFRP reinforced foam concrete subjected to dynamic compression at medium strain rate, Materials 13(1) (2020) 10.

6.Hongyuan Zhou, Kuncheng Jia, Xiaojuan Wang*, Mingxiang Xiong, Yonghui Wang, Experimental and numerical investigation of low velocity impact response of foam concrete filled auxetic honeycombs,Thin-Walled Structures 154 (2020) 106898.

7.Xiaojuan Wang, Yongsheng Li, Hongyuan Zhou*, Huliang Dai, Bhagya Jayasinghe, Accurate measurement of ground shock with cellular solid, International Journal of Impacting Engineering 145 (2020) 103675.

8.Hongyuan Zhou, Guangcai Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang*, Pinghe Ni, Jian Zhang, A hybrid identification method on butterfly optimization and differential evolution algorithm,Smart Structures and Systems 26(3) (2020) 345-360.

9.Wenjing Shen, Hongyuan Zhou, Xuejian Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang*, Response and energy absorption of concrete honeycombs subjected to dynamic in-plane compression: A numerical approach, Symmetry-Basel 11(2) (2019) 175.

10.Xiaojuan Wang, Hongyuan Zhou*, Failure pattern transition of shape memory NiTi foam subjected to compression: from quasi-static to dynamic, Applied Sciences 8(5) (2018) 741.

11.Hongyuan Zhou, Xiaojuan Wang*, Xuejian Zhang, Shock energy conversion from translation to rotation, Shock and Vibration (2018) 9136867.

12.Hongyuan Zhou, Xiaojuan Wang*, Zhiye Zhao*, High velocity impact mitigation with gradient cellular solids, Composites Part B: Engineering 85 (2016) 93-101.

13.Hongyuan Zhou, Yonghui Wang, Xiaojuan Wang*, Zhiye Zhao*, Guowei Ma, Energy absorption of graded foam subjected to blast: A theoretical approach, Materials & Design 84 (2015) 351-358.

14.Hongyuan Zhou, Xiaojuan Wang*, In-structure shock of surface structures: A theoretical approach, Shock and Vibration (2015) 741986.

Personal statement

Wang Xiaojuan, Ph.D, associate professor and master adviser, was awarded Bachelor degree from Tongji University in 2004, Master degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2007, and Ph.D degree from National University of Singapore in 2013, respectively. Subsequently, she worked as a research fellow in Department of Civil Engineering and Environment in National University of Singapore from 2013 to 2016, then she joined Beijing University of Technology in 2016. Currently, she is an associate professor in Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Transportation Engineering. Her research focuses on structure health monitoring, mechanical properties of cement-based materials and metal porous materials, as well as protective structure against blast. In these fields, she has published more than 20 papers in major journals.