Dr Sha Luo BEng, M.Sc., PhD., FHEA, CEng MICE

Dr Sha Luo

Department of Civil Engineering
Research Fellow on PLEXUS

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Sha Luo is the Research Fellow on EPSRC funded Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban System (PLEXUS) project, in where she is the main researcher of the soil-foundation structure interaction aspects of the project with a focus on integral bridges, liaise with the project’s partners (the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton) to ensure the research is integrated and complementary.

Sha has published research findings in leading international journals (like Géotechnique Letters), delivered seven international conferences (like the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering), and invited to be the journal papers reviewer, (like Granular Matter, Soils and Foundations). In 2019 April, she was awarded an independent research grant from ‘Inclusion Matters’ (EPSRC, IAA) project, which is aim to encourage post-docs to establish themselves as independent researchers and explore the next steps in an academic career.

Her research activities include intelligent sensing system, soil-structure interaction analysis, micro-mechanics of soil particles, non-destructive method (acoustic emission) in the investigation of soil crushing and foundation failure, the development of particle size distribution curve measurement, structural response analysis under dynamic loading.

Qualifications

  • CEng (Chartered Engineer) MICE (Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers), July 2024
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), June 2021
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), The University of Birmingham, June 2021
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Bristol, Jan 2018, UK
  • Master of Science (MSc) in Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield, 2012, UK
  • Bachelor of Science (BSc)  in Civil and Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, 2010, China

Biography

Dr Sha Luo qualified with the Bachelor of Science in Civil and Structural Engineering at Chong Qing University (China) in 2010, where she  picked up honed skills in conceptual civil engineering design with four years of professional training. She moved to the University of Sheffield (UK), to seek the Master of Science in Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering before she started study for a PhD in University of Bristol in 2013.

In 2018 January, Sha finished the PhD study in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering, where she picked up non-destructive acoustic emission sensing method, big data analysis experience, image processing and statistics skills. Then, she joined in the University of Birmingham as the Research Fellow for the EPSRC funded PLEXUS project at the University of Birmingham, in which she is the main researcher and coordinator of the soil-foundation structure interaction aspects of the project with a focus on infrastructure monitoring system.

Research

Sha’s research interestings include: intelligent sensing system, soil-structure interaction analysis, micro-mechanics of soil particles, non-destructive method (acoustic emission) in the investigation of soil crushing, the development of particle size distribution curve measurement, structural response analysis under dynamic loading.

In the current Research project (PLEXUS), Sha is mainly response to design lab physical tests, to evaluate multiple sensing systems in the infrastructure Integral Bridge (IB) issues, to build a full 3D multidisciplinary tomography information and further underpin the uncertainty of the data monitoring in the soil-structure interactions anthropogenic activities of IB, to contribute on the new design methods in soil-structure interactions of IB, to analysis and interpret research findings and large amount of data results using tailored techniques.

Sha’s PhD work fills the gap in the investigation of soil crushing mechanics with non-destructive acoustic emission sensing method and her matser dissertation (Numerical Modelling of the Pseudo-Dynamic Technique for Seismic Assessment of Retaining Walls)  contribute the innovative commercial software of geotechnical stability analysis - LimitState: GEO.

Other activities

September 2018 to Present, PERCAT Rep (Postdoctoral and Early Researcher Career Development and Training), School of Engineering

Publications

Journal Papers

  • Luo, S., Ibraim, E. & Diambra, A. (2019), Acoustic Emission monitoring of crushing of an analogue granular material, Géotechnique Letters 9, pp. 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.18.00231
  • Luo, S., Diambra, A. & Ibraim, E. (2016), Application of Acoustic Emission on Crushing Monitoring of Individual Soil Particles in Uniaxial Compression Test, Journal of Acoustic Emission, Volume 33, pp. S173-S181. ISBN 978-80-214-5386-9

Selected Conference Papers

  • Luo, S., Ibraim, E. & Diambra, A. (2019), AE Signature Interpretation of Single Particle Crushing under Uniaxial Compression, in Proceeding of 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, 26 – 28 June 2019, Glasgow, UK, E3S Web Conf. 92, 09005 (2019), DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20199209005
  • Luo, S.,  Ibraim, E., & Diambra, A. (2018) The interpretation of soil particle crushing by Acoustic Emission Method, in Proceeding of International Symposium on Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro, 10-12 September 2018, Atlanta, USA
  • Ibraim, E., Luo, S.& Diambra, A. (2017), Particle soil crushing: passive detection and interpretation, in Proceeding of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 17-22 September 2017, Seoul, Korea, International Society for Soil and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), pp. 389-392
  • Luo, S., Diambra, A. & Ibraim, A. (2016), Application of Acoustic Emission Analysis of Crushable Material, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Acoustic Emission (IAES-23, IIIAE2016 Kyoto and ICAE-8), 5-8 December 2016, Kyoto, Japan, The Japanese Society 

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