Tangliqun

TANG Liqun is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology. In 1988 and 1991, he graduated from the Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, majoring in Explosion Mechanics, respectively, with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science. In 1994, he graduated from the Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, majoring in Solid Mechanics, with a Ph.D. He has been a research associate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a senior visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Now he is a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Mechanics (IAAM), the executive director of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a member of the Solid Mechanics Committee, the former chairman of the Guangdong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the associate editor of Experimental Mechanics, the editorial board of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures and Acta Mechanics.

At present, he is mainly engaged in the research of impact and failure behavior of materials and structures. The current main research directions include: (1) Microstructure and failure mechanism of heterogeneous materials; (2) Structural damage and long-term health monitoring; (3) Impact dynamics. In terms of heterogeneous materials, the focus is on the meso-feature characterization, modeling and simulation of meso-structure heterogeneous materials such as hydrogels, metal foams, and advanced concrete.

As the principal investigator, he has undertaken a number of key projects from the Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Provincial Major Applied Science and Technology Project, and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. He has published more than 150 journal papers, in which more than 70 are SCI indexed. He has won four provincial and ministerial-level awards, and the first completer won the second prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2020, and the second completer won the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2021.