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Durability and Sustainable Development of Marine Concrete Structures

Team Basic Information

  • Team Name
    Durability and Sustainable Development of Marine Concrete Structures Research Team
  • Affiliated College
    College of Civil and Transportation Engineering
  • Year Established
    2011

Team Overview

Research Directions and Features

Main Research Directions

  • Direction 1:Basic theoretical and applied basic research on the durability of coastal civil engineering
  • Direction 2:Key technologies for sustainable civil engineering materials and their applied research
  • Direction 3:Research and application of sustainable civil engineering assurance technologies

Landmark Technologies / Theories

Keywords

Durability, green concrete, solid waste resource utilization, structural performance enhancement, performance assurance.

Team Positioning

  • Basic rese
  • Applicatio
  • Industry-a
  • Others

Supporting Disciplines

  • Pillar discipline:Civil Engineering
  • Related discipline:Materials Science

Team Members

Name

Title / Position

Research Direction

Role in the Team

Xing Feng

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

High-quality recycling of construction solid waste, high-volume high-performance application of industrial solid waste, and integrated life-extension technology for marine concrete material-structure systems

Academic Leader

Zhou Yingwu

Professor

Structural Engineering

Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Dong Biqin

Professor

Materials Engineering

Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Ueda Tamon

Academician of the Engineering Academy of Japan

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Cui Hongzhi

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Long Wujian

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Li Weiwen

Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Liu Wei

Professor

Structural Engineering

Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Luo Qiling

Professor-level Senior Engineer

Materials Engineering

Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Wang Weilun

Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhu Jihua

Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Wang Xianfeng

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Liu Jun

Professor

Civil Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Hong Shuxian

Professor

Materials Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Sun Hongfang

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Wang Yaocheng

Professor

Structural Engineering

Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Wang Yanshuai

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhang Xiaogang

Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhou Xiaoqing

Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Fang Guohao

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhong Hui

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhang Yuanyuan

Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Mei Liu

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering

Xiong Chen

Associate Professor

Civil Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Li Lixiao

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Yuan Fang

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Fang Yuan

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Li Pengda

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhan Baojian

Associate Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Pei Chun

Associate Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Hu Biao

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Lü Leyang

Associate Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Huang Xiaoxu

Associate Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Ding Xiaobo

Lecturer

Civil Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Guo Menghuan

Assistant Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhu Zhongfeng

Assistant Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Wang Peng

Assistant Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Zhang Mingyang

Assistant Professor

Structural Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Fan Shengxin

Assistant Professor

Materials Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Peng Rongxin

Assistant Professor

Materials Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Cao Ruijun

Assistant Professor

Materials Engineering

Fixed Research Personnel

Li Haodao

Assistant Professor

Building Materials

Fixed Research Personnel

Research Facilities and Resources

Supporting Platforms

  • Provincial Key Laboratory

Research Facilities and Resources

Active following-type loading system, multi-scale material voxel imaging system, high-performance structural mechanics tester, three-dimensional reconstruction imaging X-ray microscope, field-emission environmental scanning electron microscope, high-force dynamic thermomechanical analyzer, MTS fatigue testing machine, high-resolution X-ray analyzer, concrete temperature stress testing machine, and thermal analysis infrared mass spectrometer.


Collaboration Network

  • Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), University of Missouri (USA), Miss:#

Research Projects and Achievements

Signature Research Projects

Project

Project Leader

Project Type

Duration (Years)

Deterioration and Inhibition of Marine Concrete

Dong Biqin

National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2019-2024

Energy-Storage Concrete

Cui Hongzhi

National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2019-2024

Sustainable Marine FRP Concrete Structures

Zhou Yingwu

National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2024-2028

Design Theory and Applied Basic Research of Multi-Source Solid-Waste-Based Low-Carbon Concrete

Dong Biqin

Joint Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2026-2029

Preparation of Adaptive Smart-Responsive Building Materials and Research on Their Application Technology in Marine Corrosive Environments

Wang Xianfeng

National Key R&D Program Project

2022-2025

Intelligent Corrosion Inhibition System for Concrete in Marine Engineering

Dong Biqin

National Natural Science Foundation of China Project – Guangdong Joint Fund Project

2019-2021

Next-Generation Green Energy-Saving Materials and Structures

Zhou Yingwu

National Key R&D Program Project

2019-2022

Research on Environmentally Adaptive Road Systems Based on Graphene/Carbon-Fiber-Modified Cementitious Materials and Integrated Green Energy Application Technology

Zhu Jihua

National Key R&D Program Project

2020-2022

Design and Applied Basic Research of High-Durability Low-Binder Self-Compacting Concrete Materials in Marine Environments

Long Wujian

Joint Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2021-2024

Research on High-Performance Solid-Waste-Based Geopolymer Seawater Sea-Sand Concrete and Its Intelligent Self-Assuring Structural System

Zhou Yingwu

Joint Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2021-2024

Metal Plate Penetration Test

Zhou Yingwu

Industry-funded Project

2022-2023

Research on Key Technologies for High Crack Resistance of Self-Compacting Marine Concrete for the Yangjiang Port Grand Bridge

Long Wujian

Industry-funded Project

2023-2025

Key Technologies for Intelligent Determination of Pile Integrity Testing

Long Wujian

Industry-funded Project

2025-2026

Research on Fatigue Monitoring of Nuclear Power Marine Structures

Li Weiwen

Industry-funded Project

2025-2028

Durability Monitoring of the Anchorage Foundation of the Shiziyang Channel

Wang Yaocheng

Industry-funded Project

2025-2030

Flagship Research Projects

High-Level Papers

  • Chun Pei, Hongtao Yu, Ji-Hua Zhu *, Feng Xing.(2024).Efficient Multifunctional Modification of Commercial Carbon Fiber through Tailored Carbon Layer Structure. Engineering.

  • Yu-Fei Wu, Fang Yuan *, Biao Hu *.(2024).Green Compression-Cast Concrete Material and Its Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP)-Reinforced Concrete Structures. Engineering.

  • Zenghui Ye , Zhongfeng Zhu , Feng Xing, Yingwu Zhou *.(2024).Performance Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Self-Sensing Steel Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composite Bars: Theory and Test Validation. Engineering.

  • Yingwu Zhou, Zenghui Ye, Feng Xing*, Zhongfeng Zhu*, Xiaoxu Huang.(2025). Self-Sensing Steel–FRP Composite Bars for Crack Monitoring and Mechanical Behavior Evaluation in Reinforced Concrete Members. Engineering, 278.

  • Ji-Hua Zhu, Qujian Li, Chun Pei, Hongtao Yu, Feng Xing*.(2025).Evolution Mechanism of Carbon Fiber Anode Properties for Functionalized Applications: Impressed Current Cathodic Protection and Structural Strengthening. Engineering, 12.

  • Xuanzhe Zhang, Xianfeng Wang*, Zhihui Zhu, Wentao Yang, Guangming Zhu*, Feng Xing.(2025).Fabrication of organic-inorganic double-walled (ER@ EC/SiO2) microcapsules via biomimetic mineralization for self-healing cementitious materials. Composites Part B: Engineering.

  • Chen Zhang, Yingwu Zhou, Feng Xing, Menghuan Guo*, Jiawei Wu, Junfeng Wang, Yinghui Wu.(2025).PEDOT: PSS-Enabled CNT and Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 Interface Microengineering for Integrated Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting and Corrosion Protection in Cementitious Composite. Advanced Science.

  • Geng Song-Yuan , Cheng Bo-Yuan , Long Wu-Jian , Luo Qi-Ling, Dong Bi-Qin , Xing Feng.(2025). Co-driven physics and machine learning for intelligent control in high-precision 3D concrete printing. Automation In Construction.

  • Biqin Dong, Chenxi Liu, Eskinder Desta Shumuye, Yuanyuan Zhang, Hui Zhong, Guohao Fang.(2025). Effect of nano-silica on mechanical properties and microstructure of engineered geopolymer composites. Cement and Concrete Composites.

Granted Invention Patents

  • UNCALCINED GEOPOLYMER-BASED REFRACTORY MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION. US 11,866,368 B2.

  • ALKALI-ACTIVATED GEOPOLYMER COATING, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF. US 2024,0262747.

  • UNCALCINED GEOPOLYMER-BASED REFRACTORY MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION. US 11,873,247 B22.

  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL CONTENT AND SLENDERNESS RATIO OF FIBER IN COMPRESSION CAST FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE. US 12,099,037B1.

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING METAL CORROSION. US 11,002,661 B2.

  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL CONTENT AND SLENDERNESS RATIO OF FIBER IN COMPRESSION CAST FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE. GB2626255.

  • CFRP CONCRETE COMPOSITE COMPONENT WITH PARTITIONED CATHODIC PROTECTION AND OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE METHOD THEREOF. US 12 258 759.

  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPRESSIVE BEARING CAPACITY OF COMPRESSION-CAST RUBBER FINE AGGREGATE CONCRETE. US 12 313 602.

Future Development Plans

Short-Term Goals

The laboratory will continue to deeply advance the three research directions and enhance talent cultivation. Centering on the marine development strategy, it will focus on marine engineering durability, solid waste utilization, and marine resource development.

The research goals include: deepening research on structural deterioration mechanisms in marine environments and developing new durable materials and life-cycle design systems; advancing solid waste resource utilization technologies, developing green building materials, and exploring their marine engineering applications.

They also include researching marine energy development and ecological restoration technologies to ensure environmental protection during resource extraction, and promoting intelligent monitoring and digital construction technologies to improve engineering efficiency.


Mid- and Long-Term Goals

Centering on the world marine development strategy, the team focuses on marine engineering durability, solid waste utilization, and marine resource development.

In response to the major domestic and international needs of marine resource development, it cultivates scientific and technological innovation talents in the fields of marine engineering structures and durability engineering, broadens research fields, strengthens interdisciplinary integration, and provides a favorable teaching and experimental platform and testing base for discipline development.


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