WCFS 2025 Matchmaking

2 Sept 2025 | Espoo, Finland

Shanshan Cheng

Associate Professor in Structural Engineering

University of Plymouth

Plymouth, United Kingdom

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Low carbon concrete materials and their application to floating platforms; fatigue failure mechanism; numerical modelling

My organisation

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

University / Research Institute

Plymouth, United Kingdom

The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With 18,410 students, it is the 57th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students (including the Open University).
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About me

My current research mainly focuses on the low carbon construction materials, particularly the application to offshore floating platforms. I am currently the host of a Marie-Curie Fellow working on "Fatigue failure mechanism of marine concrete structures using multi-scale numerical modelling (FAMCON)", and Principal Investigator for a Royal Society funded project "Fatigue failure mechanics of carbon-fibre textile reinforced concrete (CTRC) in the marine environment", to test the flexural fatigue behaviour of CTRC beams under seawater. I’m a Co-I (WP5 lead) of an EU funded project “Light-Weight High Performance Concrete for Modular Floating Structures – LITEFLOATCON”, to develop innovative light-weight high performance concrete and investigate its application on multi-purpose modular floating structures for marine space utilisation, where my responsibility is to lead the numerical simulation of coupled fluid-structure interaction of large floating concrete modular systems and investigate effects of various connectors on the overall structural performance of the modular system. I’m also a Co-I for EPSRC funded project “FlexWave – flexible responsive systems in wave energy (EP/V040367/1)”, where I’m responsible for finite element analysis of the flexible wave energy converters under wave loading.

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Skills

  • construction materials
  • Numerical modelling
  • structural engineering

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Floating platform