Chair & Professor

   Telephone number: (+86-21) 65981033

   E-mail: zgzhou@tongji.edu.cn

   Address: Department of Disaster Mitigation for Structures

                  College of Civil Engineering,Tongji University

                  1239 Siping Road, Shanghai,200092, China

Prof. Zhiguang ZHOU is currently the Chair of Department of Disaster Mitigation for Structures of Tongji University. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2009. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Japan Atomic Energy Agency from 2010 to 2011. He was a postdoctoral scholar at PEER, University of California, Berkeley and a guest postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2012 to 2013. He has won awards from China Building Material Industry Association and the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Programs of Japan, and Monbu-Kagakusho Scholarship from Japan. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Seismic Performance of Power Energy Structures

• Response Control and Seismic Isolation of Buildings

• Soil-Structure Interaction

• Numerical Analysis of Complicated Structures

AWARDS

• 2008     Award from the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Programs, Japan

• 2005-2009  Monbu-Kagakusho Scholarship from Japanese Government

• 2005     Technology Award of China Building Material Industry Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Tao Huang, Mengmeng Chen, Zhongcheng Li, Zhanfa Dong, Tiejian Zhang, Zhiguang Zhou*, Impact test of a centrifugal pump used in nuclear power plant under aircraft crash scenario, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2020.12.016.

2.  Xiaorong Hu, Zhiguang Zhou*, Seismic analysis of a reinforced concrete building isolated by high damping rubber bearings using deformation history integral type model. Struct Design Tall Spec Build. 2020; 29:e1811. https://doi.org/10.1002/tal.1811

3. Z.G. Zhou*, Y.W. Li, Experimental investigation on cumulative damage indices for steel members under ultra-low-cycle loading, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Volume 172, 2020,106223,ISSN 0143-974X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2020.106223.

4.    Xu, L, Zhao, J, Zhou, Z*. Effects of characteristic parameters of isolation system on seismic response of isolated nuclear power plants. Struct Design Tall Spec Build. 2020; Volume 29, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/tal.1697

5.    Lu, Zheng；Rong, Kunjie；Zhou, Zhiguang*；Du, Jiang. Experimental Study on Performance of Frame Structure Strengthened with Foamed Aluminum under Debris Flow Impact, JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE OF CONSTRUCTED FACILITIES, Vol 34 Is 2; Doi 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0001403, 2020. WOS:000515519500025

6.    Hu, Xiaorong; Zhou, Zhiguang*; Chen, Hao; Ren, Yongqiang. Seismic Fragility Analysis of Tunnels with Different Buried Depths in a Soft Soil. Sustainability 12, no. 3: 892. 2020.

7.    Z.G. Zhou, M.M. Chen, C.Z. Ma*, Stress-strain states of welded beam-to-column connections with geometrical and metallurgical notches, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2019, 105745, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2019.105745.

8.    Zhou, Z, Hu, X, Wong, J, Xue, S*. Evaluation and research needs for seismically isolating nuclear power plants. ENERGY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. 2019; 7(2): 599– 618. https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.305

9.    Zhou, Zhiguang; Wei, Xiaodong; Lu, Zheng*; Jeremic, Boris. Influence of soil-structure interaction on performance of a super tall building using a new eddy-current tuned mass damper, STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF TALL AND SPECIAL BUILDINGS. Vol 27, Issue 14, 2018. WOS:000445742000006.

10.    Zhiguang Zhou, Liuyun Xu, Chaoxin Sun and Songtao Xue*. Brazier Effect of Thin angle-Section Beams under Bending, Sustainability, 2018,Vol 10, Issue 9. WOS:000446770200090.

11.    Zhiguang Zhou, Xiaorong Hu and Jenna Wong*, Special Issues in the Application of Seismic Isolation to Nuclear Power Plants, Energies. 2018,Vol 11, Issue 9. WOS:000446604500154.

12.  Z.G. Zhou*, J. Wong, S. Mahin.  Potentiality of Using Vertical and Three-dimensional Isolation Systems in Nuclear Structures. Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2016, 48(5):1237~1251. doi:10.1016/j.net.2016.03.005

13.  Zhiguang Zhou* and Xiaodong Wei, Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of Isolated Nuclear Power Plants in Frequency Domain, Shock and Vibration, Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 6127895, 15 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6127895

14.  Z.G. Zhou*, L.J. Jia. Damage index for crack initiation of structural steel under cyclic loading. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Volume 114, Pages 1-7, 2015.

15.  Lu X., Zhang Q., Weng D., Zhou Z., Wang S., Mahin S. A., Ding S., and Qian F. (2017) Improving performance of a super tall building using a new eddy-current tuned mass damper, Struct. Control Health Monit., 24: e1882. doi: 10.1002/stc.1882.