General Information
Junxian Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Date of Birth(mm-dd-yyyy): 10-09-1982
Address:
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation
South China University of Technology
381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District
Guangzhou 510641, Guangdong Province
P.R. China
Email:ctjxzhao@scut.edu.cn junxian.zhao@qq.com
Tel: 86-18027241880; 86-18520708239
Education
●Ph.D., Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012
Advisor: Prof. Bin Wu
Thesis title: Seismic performance and stability design methods of all-steel buckling-restrained braces (Excellent Thesis Award)
●Visiting PhD student, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), 11/07/2009-11/09/2010 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Hosting supervisor: Prof. Chia-Ming Uang
Research topic: Seismic and stability design methods of buckling-restrained braces
●M.S., Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
Advisor: Prof. Yaochun Zhang
Thesis title: Hysteretic performance and working behavior of unbonded steel plate brace encased in reinforced concrete panel (Excellent Thesis Award)
●B.S., Shantou University, 2005
Awards
●“The Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award”, awarded by the Huixian Earthquake Foundation (China) and the US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation (America), 2011 (10 awardees)
●The “Thousand-Hundred-Ten” talents award of Guangdong Province, awarded by the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, 2014
●“The Second Prize in The Third Jing’gong Cup Excellent Paper Award for Young Researchers”, awarded by the Steel-Concrete Composite Structure Branch Association of China Steel Construction Society, 2007
●“Excellent PhD Thesis Award”, awarded by Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012
●“Guanghua Scholarship”, awarded by Harbin Institute of Technology, 2010
●“The Second Prize in The Seventh Simulated International Academic Conference for PhD Students”, awarded by Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
●“The Gold Medal of Excellent Graduates Award”, awarded by Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
●“Excellent Master Thesis Award”, awarded by Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
Main Research Interests
●Seismic design of steel structures
●Passive energy dissipation systems
●Buckling-restrained braces
Professional membership
●2014-present, Committee for the Promotion of Earthquake prevention and Disaster Mitigation Engineering , China Society of Civil Engineering
●2012-present, Editorial Board Member of the Technical Specification for the Applications of Buckling-Restrained Braces
Selected Publications
●International Journal Paper
1.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu, Wei Li and Jinping Ou. Local buckling behavior of steel angle core members in buckling-restrained braces: Cyclic tests, theoretical analysis, and design recommendations. Engineering Structures. 2014, 66(5): 129-145.
2.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. A practical and unified global stability design method of buckling-restrained braces: Discussion on pinned connections. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2014, 95(4): 106-115.
3.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Global stability design method of buckling-restrained braces considering end bending moment transfer: Discussion on pinned connections with collars. Engineering Structures, 2013, 49(4): 947-962.
4.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Flexural demand on pin-connected buckling-restrained braces and design recommendations. Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 2012, 138(11): 1398-1415.
5.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Effect of brace end rotation on the global buckling behavior of pin-connected buckling-restrained braces with end collars. Engineering Structures, 2012, 40(7): 240-253.
6.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. A novel type of angle steel buckling-restrained brace: Cyclic behavior and failure mechanism. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2011, 40(10): 1083-1102. (Most accessed article of 2011 on EESD website)
7.Yukun Ding, Yaochun Zhang and Junxian Zhao. Tests of hysteretic behavior for unbonded steel plate brace encased in reinforced concrete panel. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2009, 65(5): 1160-1170.
●Conference paper
1.Junxian Zhao, Wei Li, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Local stability of a type of section steel core members in buckling-restrained braces. 6th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring. Barcelona, Spain. July 15-17, 2014. (Oral presentation)
2.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. A simplified moment amplification factor method for unifying global stability design of buckling-restrained braces. Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Structural Steel Conference, pp.709-714. Sentosa, Singapore. October 8-11, 2013. (Oral presentation)
3.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Effect of end bending moment on the global stability of buckling restrained braces. The 12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering. Wuhan, China. Nov. 17-19, 2012. Page: 1039-1045. (Oral presentation)
4.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. A new approach to predict flexural demands at the projected core portion of pin-connected buckling-restrained braces. 3rd Asia-Pacific Young Researchers and Graduates Symposium. Taipei, Taiwan. March 25-26, 2011. Page: 134-141. (Oral presentation)
5.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu, Chia-Ming Uang and Jinping Ou. Effect of brace end rotation on the global stability of a type of pin-connected steel angle buckling-restrained braces. Proceeding of 9th Pacific Structural Steel Conference. Beijing, China. Oct. 19-22, 2010. Page: 1354-1360. (Oral presentation)
6.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Experimental study on the seismic behavior of a novel type of all-steel buckling-restrained braces. 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Toronto, Canada. July 25-29, 2010. Paper no. 1464. (Oral presentation)
7.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Flexural response of angle steel buckling-restrained braces with pinned connections considering end rotation. The 11th International Symposium on Structural Engineering. Guangzhou, China. Dec. 18-20, 2010. Page: 395-400. (Oral presentation)
8.Junxian Zhao, Bin Wu and Jinping Ou. Cyclic test of newly developed buckling-restrained braces. 11th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures. Guangzhou, China. November 17-21, 2009. Paper no. 089. (Keynote paper)
