Ph.D., Professor

   ✉  yiqiu_lu@tongji.edu.cn

   ☏  021-65986183；

   Ⓐ   B511, Building of College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

        1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China

Education and Working Experience

• 2021 - Now  Tongji University

• 2020 - 2021 ZURU Tech-China, Chief Structural Engineer

• 2017 - 2020 University of Auckland/QuakeCoRE, Research Fellow

• 2012 - 2016 University of Auckland, PhD

• 2005 - 2012 Hunan University, Master and Bachelor

Research Area

• Seismic Resilient Concrete Structures

• Seismic Design of precast concrete structures

• Large-scale testing and simulation

Research Output

Open-Source Database

• Lu, Y., Henry, R.S., Zhou, Y., Rodgers, G.W., Yang, Q., Gu, A., Elwood, K.J., Yang, T.Y. ILEE-QuakeCoRE Shake table test of a 2-storey low-damage concrete wall building. DesignSafe-CI: 2021. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-ncac-sg36.

•  Lu, Y. and Henry, R.S. University of Auckland Lightly Reinforced Concrete Wall Tests. DesignSafe-CI: 2020. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-tshe-kd83.

Journal Papers

• Lu, Y., Henry, R.S., Zhou, Y., , Rodgers, G.W., Yang, Q., Gu, A. Data Set for a Shake-Table Test of a Two-Storey Low-Damage Concrete Wall Building. Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, 2022. 148(7): 04722002.

• Henry, R.S., Zhou, Y., Lu, Y.*, Rodgers, G.W., Gu, A., Elwood, K.J., Yang, T.Y., Shake-Table Test of a Two-Storey Low-Damage Concrete Wall Building. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2021. 50(12): 1-24.

• Lu, Y.* and Henry, R.S., Dataset for cyclic tests of elven lightly reinforced concrete walls, Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, 2021, 147(3): 04720004.

• Shegay, A., Dashti, F., Hogan, L., Lu, Y., Niroomandi, A., Seifi, P., Zhang, T., Dhakal, R., Elwood, K., Henry, R.S, Pampanin, S., Research programme on seismic performance of reinforced concrete walls, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 2020, 53(2), 54-69.

• Lu, Y.*, Gultom, R., Ma, Q.T. and Henry, R.S., Experimental validation of minimum vertical reinforcement requirements for ductile concrete walls, ACI Structural Journal, 2018, 115(4): 1115-1130.

• Lu, Y.*, Henry, R.S., Gultom, R., and Ma, Q.T., Cyclic testing of reinforced concrete walls with minimum vertical reinforcement, Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, 2017, 143(5): 04016225.

• Lu, Y.* and Henry, R. S., Numerical Modelling of Reinforced Concrete Walls with Minimum Vertical Reinforcement, Engineering Structures, 2017, 143: 330–345.

• Huang, L., Lu, Y. and Shi, C., Unified Calculation Method for Symmetrically Reinforced Concrete Sections Subjected to Combined Loading, ACI Structural Journal, 2013, 110(1): 127-136.

• Zhou, Y., Gu, A., Lu, Y., Song, G. Henry, R.S., Rodgers, G.W. Large-Scale Shaking Table Experimental Study on a Low-Damage Self-Centering Wall Building. China Civil Engineering Journal, 2020, 53(10): 62-71.

• Lu, Y., Huang, L. Quantitative Ductility-Based Design Method of Confining Stirrups for RC Walls. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Dynamics, 2016, 36(1): 110-117.

• Lu, Y., Huang, L.  Influence of Confining Stirrups on the Deformation Capacity of RC Walls With Flexure Failure. Engineering Mechanics, 2015, 32(4): 85-92.

• Lu, Y., Huang, L. Experimental Data-Based Calculation Method for Ultimate Displacement of Flexure Dominated RC Walls with Concealed Columns. Journal of Building Structures, 2014, 35(2): 80-88.

Research Projects as PI

• Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (Overseas)

• Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leaders Plan (Overseas)

• Tongji University Interdiscipline Research Project

Awards

• 2021 US NSF DesignSafe Dataset Award

• 2021 New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering - Otto Glogau Award

• 2019 New Zealand Concrete Technology Award•2019 New Zealand Concrete Society - Sandy Cormack Award

• 2014 Excellent Thesis for Master's degree of Hunan Province

Recruitment

• Enrollment start from Sep 2023：two PhD students, three Master students and one Post-doc