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Introduction
Xuemei's current research interests mainly focus on promoting sustainable and smart engineering structures, including structural steel design, high-performance steel connections (high strength/stainless steel/ shape memory alloy), fracture of metallic materials, and structural reliability analysis.
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October 2023 - present
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A new special issue titled "Sustainable Steel and Composite Structures" is open for submission in the international journal of Sustainablity (IF = 3.3, JCR Q2). Find out more: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/1RY4CA1COD
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) have received increasing attention as a crucial component in renewable energy systems in recent years. However, due to the intricate interactions between aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, accurately predicting the performance and response remains a challenging task. This study examines recent advancements in th...
Selective Laser Melting (SLM) additive manufacturing (AM) is recognized for its rapid production capabilities, energy efficiency, reduced environmental impact, and design flexibility. It has shown promising applications in architecture and civil infrastructure. However, before applying this technology to the actual production of building structures...
Paper-based microfluidic fuel cell (PMFC) has attracted great attention in the microfluidic fuel cell field in recent years. It utilizes the spontaneous capillary flow of reactant solutions in paper-based porous substrate to achieve passive transportations of fuel and oxidant, solving the fluid driving issue encountered in traditional microfluidic...
Duplex stainless steel (DSS) is an emerging construction material for structural engineering, which is featured with high mechanical strength and superior corrosion resistance. Compared with considerable research on DSS structural members, available research is relatively limited for structural joints/connections between these members. In line with...
Gusset plates are key connection components in steel truss and braced frame structures. To provide a comprehensive insight into the behaviour and design of these components, this paper thoroughly reviews the research studies and design methods of steel gusset plates subjected to various loading conditions. A particular focus is placed on the design...
Austenitic stainless steel possesses very high ductility and ultimate-to-yield strength ratio, which could possibly affect the block shear failure mechanism and the corresponding ultimate capacity of bolted connections made of this material. In response to this concern, a comprehensive experimental and numerical study on the block shear behaviour o...
This paper presents an experimental and numerical study of block shear strength of staggered bolted connections made of high strength steel (HSS). The study aims to examine the effect of low ductility and low tensile‐to‐yield strength ratio of HSS material on the behaviour and block shear strength of staggered bolted connections. Two Q690 HSS stagg...
A special issue entitled "Resilience and Robustness of Steel Buildings and Structures" of Buildings (Impact factor 3.324, citescore 3.8) is open for submssion. For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/si/164017
This paper summarised and re examined the theoretical basis of the commonly used design rule developed by Cochrane in the 1920s to consider staggered bolt holes in tension members, i.e., the s2/4g rule. The rule was derived assuming that the term two times the bolt hole diameter (2d0) in Cochrane’s original equation could be neglected, and assuming...
In this study, the classical J2 flow theory is explicitly proved to be inappropriate to describe the plastic behaviour of structural steels under different stress states according to the reported test results. A numerical framework of the characterization of the strain hardening and ductile fracture initiation involving the effect of stress states,...
This study presents an experimental and numerical investigation of block shear strength of high strength steel (HSS) bolted connections under double shear. A total of 16 HSS (grades Q690 and Q960) and eight mild steel (MS) (grade Q345) bolted connection specimens with various geometric configurations were tested and failed in block shear failure mo...
This paper investigates the structural behaviour and ultimate strength of high strength steel (HSS) staggered bolted connections under tension. A total of 33 HSS (Q690 and Q960) and 15 Q345 staggered bolted connection specimens were tested. All specimens failed in net section fracture through the staggered path. The predicted net section resistance...
This article presents an experimental and numerical investigation on the net section resistance of high strength steel (HSS) bolted connections subject to double shear. A total of 22 HSS and 11 mild steel (MS) bolted connection specimens were tested to net section fracture. HSS grades of Q690 and Q960, and MS grade of Q345 were studied. Although th...
This paper presents a preliminary experimental and numerical investigation of the net section resistance (fuAnet) of bolted connections made using high strength steel (HSS). The main objective of the study is to examine the effect of low tensile strength to yield strength ratio and low ductility of HSS material on the tensile capacity of HSS bolted...
This article presents a numerical investigation of the net section resistance of 30 bolted connections made of high strength steel (HSS) and mild steel (MS) using finite element method. Three types of steel were investigated, namely, S275, Q690 and Q960. All the connections were equipped with four bolts with double lap plates. The failure mode of t...
This paper presents an innovative type of hybrid self-centring extended end-plate connections incorporating high strength bolts and two basic SMA elements, namely, SMA Belleville washers and SMA bolts. The fundamental mechanical characteristics of the individual SMA elements were first understood via cyclic tests, and subsequently a comprehensive t...
Shape memory alloys (SMAs), with superelastic and shape memory effects, have attracted research interests in civil engineering in recent decades. Many research endeavours have been made to investigate the feasibility of SMAs applications in column-to-beam connections, aiming to minimise or even eliminate permanent post-earthquake deformations in ma...
