Professor Xiangming Zhou
Head of Department - Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research area(s)
- Low carbon cementitious materials (geopolymer/alkali-activated cement, magnesium-based cement etc.)
- Concrete materials, mechanics (including rheology & fracture), and structures
- Concrete technology, such as extrusion, 3D printing, additive manufacturing etc.
- Smart and functional materials for infrastructure
- Valorisation of construction and demolition waste (CDW) and mining waste for construction
- Energy efficient cement-based materials and buildings
- Nanotechnolgy in construction materials
- Steel-concrete composite/hybrid structures
- Precast concrete segmental bridges
- Performance-based design of building structures under earthquakes & strong winds
Research Interests
- Sustainable concrete technology, such as extrusion / numerical modelling of extrusion systems for cement-based materials & products and development of elliptical ring test method for assessing cracking tendency of concrete and other cement-based materials
- Testing and modelling of fracture and shrinkage cracking of concrete and other cement-based materials at early ages
- Constitutive modelling of rheology of fiber-reinforced cement-based semi-solid materials at very early ages
- Computation mechanics in civil engineering structures and materials, multi-scale (nano-, micro-, meso- and macro-) modelling of fracture and structural behavior of cement-based materials and structures
- Sustainable low carbon cement materials such as geopolymer/alkali-activated cement and magnesium oxychloride (MOC) cement
- Energy efficient cementitious materials with phase-change materials (PCMs)
- Supplementary cementitious materials, such as aluminosilicate rich mining waste, GGBS, PFA and metakaolin, in concrete and other cement-based materials
- Applications of nanotechnology in cement and concrete
- Natural fiber reinforced cement-based materials: formulation, engineering properties & structural performance
- Performance-based multi-hazards mitigation of building structures under extreme loadings like earthquakes and strong winds
- Steel-concrete composite structures, earthquake engineering & seismic design
- Structural test, both static and dynamic, and numerical modelling of structures and structural components in test
- Precast concrete segmental bridges
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Project details
- Horizon 2020, Energy Efficient Buildings – “Green INSTRUCT – Green INtegrated STRUCTural Elements for Retrofitting and New Construction of Buildings”, project no. 723825, Project Coordinator, 01/10/2016 ~ 30/09/2020, project value €4,996,626 (EC contribution). Project webpage:
- British Council, International Science Partnerships Fund, “Nurturing Early Career Fellows in Climate Resilient and Sustainable Built Environment Research Agenda,” 01/03/2024~31/12/2025, project value: £349,632, Principal Investigator.
- UKRI, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, “CSTO2NE - Biomimicry and carbon adsorbent eco-materials for a climate-neutral economy,” project no.: EP/X04145X/1, Principal Investigator, 01/01/2023~31/12/2026, project value: £198,215. (Part of the Horizon Europe-funded project.)
- EPSRC, European Commission Horizon Europe, “CellMembrane - Development of delignified nanocellulose based gas transfer membrane for artificial lungs applications,” project ref: 10093284 (UKRI), project value: 397,224.00, Co-Investigator.
- Royal Society, “Enhancement on carbon capture in recycling waste concrete for sustainable & resilient infrastructure,” project no.: IEC\NSFC\223146, Principal Investigator, 31/03/2023~30/03/2025, project value: £11,935.90 (co-funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, collaboration with Tsinghua University).
- Horizon 2020, MSCA Individual Fellowship, "Nano-engineered aluminosilicate cementitious materials," i.e. NEASCMs, project no.: 893469, Principal Investigator, 02/08/2021 ~ 29/02/2024 (including 7 months of abeyance), project value € 224,934.
- The UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Community Network+, EPSRC, “C-WELL: CO2 injection well integrity under operational thermo-hydro-mechanical loading,” 01/10/2023~30/06/2024, project value: £29,979, Co-Investigator.
- Academy of Medical Sciences, Networking Grant, “Integrating digital transformation and circular economy for decarbonised construction & demolition waste diversion: enhancing Vietnam and UK’s research & practice (AIRINESS),” project no.: NGR1\1107, Co-Investigator, 04/03/2024 ~ 03/03/2025, project value: £24,980.
- Academy of Medical Sciences, Networking Grant, “Fuel Cell and Battery Vehicles – Enhancing Pathway Analysis for Future Transportation Systems,” project no.: NGR1\1999, Co-Investigator, 04/03/2024 ~ 03/03/2025, project value: £23,050.
- British Academy, "Pump-priming collaborative fund to support brainstorming, networking, brokerage, consortium building, and proposal drafting,” project no.: PPHE24\100295, 25/03/2023~20/01/2024, project value: £9,760.00, Principal Investigator.
- British Council Researcher Links Workshop grant, "Valorization of Construction and Demolition Waste for Sustainable Infrastructure Development," project no. 2019-RLWK11-10130, Principal Investigator, 01/01/2020 ~ 31/12/2021, project value £24,000 (co-funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, collaboration with Tongji University with funding RMB 150,000 from NSFC to Tongji University).
- British Council, UKIERI-DST, "A New Framework of High-value Added Zero-waste Recycling of Concrete from Construction and Demolition Waste," project no. IND/CONT/GA/18-19/24, Principal Investigator, 01/04/2019 ~ 30/09/2021, project value £64,002 (co-funded by India Government Department of Science & Technology, collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with funding INR 4,997,200 from Indian DST to IIT-Madras).
- 国家自然科学基金面上项目（National Nature Science Foundation of China），项目名称：基于粘聚力时变特性的混凝土徐变断裂过程研究，(果冻传媒麻豆社 of Creep Fracture Process in Concrete based on Time-dependent Cohesive Characteristic)，项目编号：51878117，项目执行期： 2019年1月-2022年12月，项目资助额：直接经费60万，参与(颁辞-滨苍惫别蝉迟颈驳补迟辞谤).
- Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme – “Integrated Structural Health Monitoring and Damage and Integrity Assessment System with Model Updating from Field Measurement for Critical Civil Infrastructure,” Principal Investigator, invited fellow: Prof Zhimin Wu, Dalian University of Technology, 15 Sept 2016 ~ 14 Oct 2016, £6,000.
- Pera Technology, Consultancy, £2,400, PI, Jan 2016.
- European Commission Horizon2020, MARIE Sk?odowska-CURIE Actions, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE), - “REMINE – Reuse of Mining Waste into Innovative Geopolymeric-based Structural Panels, Precast, Ready Mixes and Insitu Applications”, project no. 645696, Principal Investigator, 01/01/2015 ~ 31/12/2018, project value €567,000 (EC contribution).
- European Commission 7th Framework Programme - “Nanotechnology Enhanced Extruded Fiber Reinforced Foam Cement Based Environmental Friendly Sandwich Material for Building Applications (FIBCEM),” FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4-262954, Scientific Manager of the whole project and Work Package Leader. The project value is €3,780,608 (with European Commission contribution €2,747,570). PI at Brunel, 01 Dec 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2014. The project involves 10 partners from 5 EU member state countries.
- Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow Scheme, “Graphene-based Smart Skin Material/Sensors for Structure Health Monitoring”, project value £6,000, PI, invited fellow: Prof Zongjin Li, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, 2014.
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council – “A Novel Method for Assessing Cracking Tendency of Concrete at Early Ages,” EP/I031952/1, project value £130,796 (with EPSRC contribution £102,136), PI, 01 Sept 2011 ~ 28 Feb 2014.
- European Commission LIFE + Environment Policy & Governance, “Utilisation of Recovered Wood and Rubber for Alternative Composite Products (WOODRUB),” LIFE09 ENV/ES/000454, Co-I. The whole project value is €1,838,968, 01 Sept 2010 ~ 31 Aug 2013.
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council Summer Vacation Research Projects – “Monitoring and Interpretation of Hydration Process and Strength Development of Low Carbon Geoement/Geopolymer Materials at Early Ages using Non-Contacting Resistivity Measurement,” PI, project value £2,565, 17 Jun 2012 ~ 16 Aug 2012.
- Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund - “A New Method for Investigating Shrinkage Cracking of Hardening Concrete: Experimental and Numerical Modeling”, LBK909(904/2009), PI, project value £15,000, 01 Nov 2009 ~ 30 Oct 2010.
- UK Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant, PI, project value £900, May 2010.
- UK Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant, PI, project value £500, May 2009.
- University of Greenwich Research and Development Fund - “A New Method for Investigating Restrained Shrinkage of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete,” PI, project value £5,000, 01 Aug 2007 ~ 31 Jul 2008.
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University Area of Strategic Development Fund - “Performance-based Design and Analysis of Smart Hybrid Building Structures in Moderate Seismic and Strong Wind Regions,” project Fellow, project value HK$736,000 (equivalent to around £60,000).
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Research group(s)
- IMM