Shanshan Cheng
Associate Professor in Structural Engineering
University of Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Low carbon concrete materials and their application to floating platforms; fatigue failure mechanism; numerical modelling
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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.
Skills
- construction materials
- Numerical modelling
- structural engineering
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