Profile of Dr. YANG Yi

Dr. YANG Yi

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Academic Qualifications

  • BEng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, 2008
  • MSc, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, 2011
  • PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015

 

Previous Academic Positions held

Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Previous Research Work

  • PI “Coupled material point method and discrete element method modeling for debris flows”  UGC/FDS13/E06/18
  • PI “New insight into the force chain evaluation during the failure process of brittle rock” SKLGDUEK1501

Publication Records

Selected 5 publications within last 5 years:

  1. Yang, Y., and Cheng, Y. M. (2015). A fractal model of contact force distribution and the unified coordination distribution for crushable granular materials under confined compression. Powder Technology, 279, 1-9. (Citation number 12) JCRQ1
  2. Yang, Y., Wang J.F., and Cheng, Y. M. (2016).Quantified evaluation of particle shape effects from micro-to-macro scales for non-convex grains. Particuology, 25, 23-25. (Citation number 18)
  3. Yang, Y., Cheng, Y.M. and Wang J.A. (2016). Exploring the contact types within mixtures of different shapes at the steady state by DEM, Powder Technology, 301, 440-448. (Citation number 10) JCRQ1
  4. Yang, Y., Cheng, Y.M., and Sun, Q. C. (2017). The effects of rolling resistance and non-convex particle on the mechanics of the undrained granular assembles in 2D. Powder Technology. 318, 528-542. (Citation number 2) JCRQ1
  5. Yang, Y., Cheng, Y.M., and Sun, Q. C. (2018) Revisiting the confined comminution of granular materials with the consideration of the initial particle size distributions and repetitive loadings. Powder Technology. 329, 149-157. JCRQ1

 

Awards

  • 2007 Excellent lecturer in BIT
  • 2011 Outstanding master thesis award in USTB
  • 2015 Ringo Yu Prize for Best PhD thesis in Geotechnical Studies of HKIE
  • 2017-2018 College Outstanding Research Award
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