EDUCATION

• 2015 – 2020 College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

• 2011 – 2015 School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology

WORK

• 2024 – Present College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University

• 2021 – 2024 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Post Doctoral Fellow

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Earthquake Engineering

• Reinforced Concrete Structures

• Structural testing and simulation

• Seismic Resilience Structures

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers:

• Song G, Gu A. (2024) Influence of seismic duration on performance assessment: application to self-centering concrete frames. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 22(9): 4677-4704. DOI: 10.1007/s10518-024-01945-6

• Zhou Y, Zhu X, Wu H, Gu A, Tian W. (2023) Seismic design and engineering practice of a 10-story self-centering precast concrete wall structure. Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 32(13): e2040. DOI: 10.1002/tal.2040

• Gu A, Zhou Y, Lu Y, Yang Q, Henry R S, Rodgers G W. (2023) Planar frame models considering system-level interactions of a two-story low-damage concrete wall building. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 1-27. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.3954

• Lu Y, Henry R S, Zhou Y, Rodgers G W, Yang Q, Gu A. (2022) Seismic damage progression of a post-tensioning concrete wall building. Journal of Building Structures, published online. (in Chinese) DOI:  10.14006/j.jzjgxb.2022.0243

• Gu A, Shen S. (2022) The influences of equivalent viscous damping ratio determination on direct displacement-based design of un-bonded post-tensioned (UPT) concrete wall systems. Smart Structures and Systems, 30(6): 627-637. DOI: 10.12989/sss.2022.30.6.627

• Gu A, Zhou Y, Henry R S, Lu Y, Rodgers G W. (2022) Simulation of Shake-Table Test for a 2-Storey Low-Damage Concrete Wall Building. Structural Control & Health Monitoring, 29(10): e3038. DOI: 10.1002/stc.3038

• Lu Y, Henry R S, Zhou Y, Rodgers G W, Yang Q, Gu A. (2022) Data Set for a Shake-Table Test of a 2-Story Low-Damage Concrete Wall Building. Journal of Structural Engineering-ASCE, 148(7): 04722002. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.000334

• Henry R S, Zhou Y, Lu Y, Rodgers G W, Gu A, Elwood K J, Yang T. (2021) Shake-Table Test of a 2-storey Low-Damage Concrete Wall Building. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 51(12): 3160-3183. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.3504

• Zhou Y, Gu A, Lu Y, Song G, Henry R S, Rodgers G W. (2020) Large-scale shaking table experimental study on a low-damage self-centering wall building. China Civil Engineering Journal, 53(10): 62-71. (in Chinese) DOI: 10.15951/j.tmgcxb.2020.10.006

• Zhou Y, Xiao Y, Gu A, Zhong G, Feng S. (2019) Orthogonal experimental investigation of steel-PVA fiber-reinforced concrete and its uniaxial constitutive model. Construction and Building Materials, 197: 615-625. DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.11.203

• Zhou Y, Xiao Y, Gu A. (2019) Self-Centering Braced Rocking Frame Systems and the Displacement-Based Seismic Design Method. Journal of Building Structures, 40(10): 17-26. (in Chinese) DOI: 10.14006/j.jzjgxb.2019.0070

• Zhou Y, Wu H, Gu A. (2019) Earthquake engineering: from earthquake resistance, energy dissipation, and isolation, to resilience. Engineering Mechanics, 36(6): 1-12. (in Chinese) DOI: 10.6052/j.issn.1000-4750.2018.07.ST09

• Zhou Y, Gu A. (2019) Displacement-based seismic design of self-centering shear walls under four-level seismic fortifications. Journal of Building Structures, 40(3): 118-126. (in Chinese) DOI: 10.14006/j.jzjgxb.2019.03.012

• Gu A, Zhou Y, Xiao Y, Li Q, Qu G. (2019) Experimental study and parametric analysis on the seismic performance of self-centering hybrid reinforced concrete shear walls. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 116: 409-420. DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.10.003

• Zhou Y, Xiao Y, Gu A, Lu Z. (2018) Dispersion, Workability and Mechanical Properties of Different Steel-Microfiber-Reinforced Concretes with Low Fiber Content. Sustainability, 10(7): 2335. DOI: 10.3390/su10072335

Dataset:

• Lu Y, Henry R S, Zhou Y, Rodgers G W, Gu A, Yang Q, Elwood K J, Yang T Y. (2021) Dataset on shake table test of a 2-storey low-damage concrete wall building. DesignSafe-CI. DOI: 10.17603/ds2-ncac-sg36

AWARDS

• 2019 New Zealand Concrete Society - SANDY CORMACK COMMENDATION

• Frontrunner 5000 Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China for 2019 - Displacement-based seismic design of self-centering shear walls under four-level seismic fortifications (in Chinese)

• Frontrunner 5000 Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China for 2019 - Earthquake engineering: from earthquake resistance, energy dissipation, and isolation, to resilience (in Chinese)

• Tongji University Excellent Post-Graduate Student Scholarship (Lilin Scholarship) in the academic year of 2018-2019

• 2015th Excellent Graduates of Dalian University of Technology