The Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education of Western Disaster and Environmental Mechanics was approved by the Ministry of Education at the end of 2005 and officially started constructing in 2006. In May of 2008, it was officially established after passing the key laboratory construction evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, it passed the regular assessment on key laboratories of the Ministry of Education in the field of mathematics and geosciences organized by the Ministry of Education.
Construction concept: Taking western China as the basic, aiming at the frontier, blazing new trails in a pioneering spirit, and striving for excellence
Construction content: Taking the representative natural disasters in the western China (sand wind/snow disaster, geological disaster, loess engineering, cultural relic disease) as the research object, regarding the mechanical mechanism in the process of western disaster development and evolution as the core, the laboratory studies and solves the major environmental mechanics problems in disaster prevention and mitigation project in western China.
Construction goal: To create strong academic environment through excellent management; to condense a high-level academic team, to cultivate numerous academic leaders with profound knowledge and influence at home and abroad, to maintain the vitality of innovative research; to establish important research platform and talent training base for disaster and environmental mechanics in the western region and to become one of the centers of national disaster prevention and mitigation engineering and research.
Laboratory personnel: There are 49 fixed scientific research members in the laboratory, among whom 19 have senior professional title and 16 have sub-senior professional title. Forty-four of the researchers have obtained the doctor’s degree, accounting for 89.8% of the researchers and thirty-two key researchers are under the age of 40, accounting for 65.31% of the total. Among the fixed researchers of the laboratory, 1 is the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2 are winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2 are distinguished professors of the “Cheung Kong Scholars Award Program” of the Ministry of Education, 1 is the winner of Award for Outstanding Teachers in Institutions of Higher Education, 1 is the winner of the National Outstanding Teacher Award, 1 is the winner of Award Nomination for Top Ten Scientific and Technological Workers in China and the National Excellent Scientist, 1 is awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Fund Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 is awarded the “Qian Lingxi Prize for Computational Mechanics”, 1 is selected as a national top-notch talent of the “Thousands Talents Program”, 1 wins the Outstanding Youth Fund of the Fund Committee, 1 wins the National Model of Teacher Morality in Colleges and Universities, 3 are awarded the Special Award of the Outstanding Teacher of the National University of Baosteel Education Foundation, 2 are awarded National Outstanding Teacher Award of Baosteel Education Foundation, 7 win the National Mechanics Outstanding Teacher Award, 1 is selected as the 1st and 2nd level talents of the National Ten Thousand Talents Project and 8 are selected into the New (Cross) Century Talents Program of the Ministry of Education.
Scientific research: Aiming at the frontier of scientific research, closely focusing on the major environmental mechanics problems in the disaster prevention and mitigation project in the west and serving the western economic construction, the laboratory has achieved remarkable results in basic research and engineering application research. It has obtained project fund of 22.8 million yuan and undertaken more than 419 scientific research projects, including 4 first-level projects of the 973 Program, 1 innovative research group of the National Fund Committee, 1 national 111 talent introduction base, 1 first-level project of the 863 Program, 3 programs of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund (including 1 overseas fund), 5 major programs of The National Natural Science Foundation of China, 88 programs of The National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 2 technology support plan programs of the national “11th five-year plan”. A number of scientific research achievements of the laboratory have won national-level science and technology awards. The project of “Theoretical Research on Multi-field Coupling Nonlinear Mechanical Behavior of Electromagnetic Material Structures” completed by Professor Zheng Xiaojing and Professor Zhou Youhe won the second prize of National Natural Science, which is the first second-class prize of the national science and technology award independently accomplished by our university; the project of “Desertification Process and Controlling in Northern China” fulfilled by Professor Zheng Xiaojing and Professor Zhou Youhe won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (our school is the second complete unit); the project of “Key Technology and Application of New Assembly Integrated Floor System” finished by Professor Zhou Xuhong won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (our school is the second complete unit); the project of “Mechanical Study on the Characteristics and Patterns of Multiple Coupling Fields in Wind-sand Movement” carried out by Professor Zhou Youhe, Professor Zheng Xiaojing and Professor Huang Ning won the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education; the project of “Development and Application of Key Technologies for Protecting Earth Sites in Arid Environments” conducted by Professor Chen Wenwu, Professor Zhang Huyuan and Professor Zhang Jingke won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (our school is the second complete unit). At the same time, the related research team of the laboratory also won 1 first prize of the National Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial first prizes, 4 provincial second prizes and 2 provincial third prizes, and completed 3 project appraisals, of which the comprehensive evaluation of the key research project of “Basic Mechanical Problems in the Study of Wind-sand Movement” supported by National Natural Science Foundation and led by Professor Zheng Xiaojing was A.
The laboratory has published a total of 1613 papers, including 637 papers in SCI and 282 papers in EI, and 27 books and textbooks. Among them, the English academic monograph Mechanics of Wind-blown Sand Movements written by Professor Zheng Xiaojing was published by Spring-Verlag Publishing House of Germany and was collected in the academic monograph series of "Environment Science and Engineering"; the Theoretical Mechanics independently written and edited by Professor Zhou Youhe was published by the Higher Education Press as a textbook for higher education. The laboratory has obtained 217 patents, including 95 invention patents, 143 utility models, and 2 US patents, 11 software copyright registrations and 9 national industry codes. The academic achievements of the dominant characteristics research have exerted important impact at home and abroad.
"Very large scale motions in the Atmospheric surface layer: a field investigation", the research achievement made by academician Zheng Xiaojing's research team on large-scale turbulent motion in the atmospheric surface boundary layer in Minqin Sandstorm Field Observation Station was published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the authoritative journal in the fluid mechanics research field in 2016. The publication of this paper marks that the study on environmental mechanics of aeolian sand of our university enters into the deep frontier of fluid mechanic;
The paper published by Professor Zheng Xiaojing, Professor Zhou Youhe and his doctoral candidate Gou Xiaofan on IEEE Trans. Applied Superconductivity was awarded the Van Duzer Prize by the IEEE Superconducting Committe.
The paper about experimental and theoretical research on wind-sand electricity published by Professor Zheng Xiaojing, Professor Huang Ning and Professor Zhou Youhe in 2003 on Journal of Geophysical Research, the world's leading academic journal in the field of wind and sand environmental mechanics, has been quoted for three times and given positive evaluation by the News and Views Column of Nature.
Three academic papers have been listed as highlights by prestigious international journal. The independent research paper on the theoretical prediction model and method of sand incident velocity and incident angle of sand movement on Mars finished by the academician Zheng Xiaojing's research group is listed as the Highlights of 2013 by the famous physics journal New Journal of Physics. The academic paper on the numerical simulation study of straw checkerboard made by Professor Huang Ning’s research group is listed as the Highlights of 2013 by the famous physics journal European Physical Journal E. The academic paper on the study on magnetic and mechanical properties of NiMnGa alloy completed by Professor Wang Xingzhe's research group is listed as the Highlights of 2012 by Smart Mater. Struct..
The new method developed by mechanics discipline in the study of mechanical properties of CICC stranded cable has drawn great attention of Professor Around, head of the superconducting magnet technology of International Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor (ITER) headquarters. He actively reaches agreement with the ITER Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology to promote the academic exchange at Gansu Baiyin Changtong Cable Factory between the laboratory and Dr. Denis, the technology representative of CICC superconducting stranded conductor of ITER headquarters as well as technicians of relevant research. The latest achievement in biomechanics headed by Dr. Wang Jizeng, a distinguished professor of Cuiying scholars, was continuously reported by the top journals of international biophysics. The Journal of Chinese Sciences also continuously reported this research result. The paper named “A simple modeling and experiment on dynamic stability of a disk rotating in air” published by Professor Wang Xingzhe in the Volume 8 of international academic journal Int. J. Structural Stability and Dynamics (IJSSD) was awarded the Best Paper Award by this academic journal in 2018.
Engineering Geology Line Selection of Qinghai-tibet Railway co-edited by Chen Wenwu was published by Lanzhou University Press in 2009 and then selected into the third “Three Hundreds” original publishing project of the General Administration of Press and Publication. The academic paper written by Professor Wang Jizeng's research group won the "Best Poster Prize" at the “International Symposium on Frontiers in Applied Mechanics, 2014” held in Singapore. The academic paper of Professor Zhang Xingyi's research group was awarded the "Best Poster Prize" in “International Autumn Conference on Experimental Mechanics and International Symposium on Dynamic Loading and Its Effects”; the "Second Phase Protection Project of Xinjiang Bezeklik Cave", which was co-designed by the Cultural Relics Protection Research Center, was jointly awarded the “First National Top Ten Cultural Relics Protection Project” by the State Cultural Relics Bureau, the Ancient Site Protection Association of China and China’s Cultural Relics News Agency. The project of “Integration and Promotion and Application of Soil Relic Protection and Reinforcement Technology in Arid Environment” which is co-completed by the laboratory as the second complete unit has won the first prize for science and technology progress of Gansu province. The application of its research result in the protection project of Jiaohe Old City in Xinjiang has been praised as “the example of the protection of earthen sites”.
Research Orientation
Research Orientation 1: The Process of Desertification and Its Aeolian Environmental Mechanics
l Cross-scale Mechanical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of The the Sand Medium Multi-field Coupling
l Mechanical Evaluation Model for the Design of Sand-control Project
l Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Wind-sand Electricity Mechanism and Its Effect
Research Orientation 2: Geological Disaster Prevention and Its Mechanism in Western China
l Slope Stability Analysis and Landslide Dynamic Process
l The Occurrence and Development of Debris Flow and Its Prevention Engineering
l The Phase Transition Mechanism of Frozen Soil and the Hydrothermal Coupling Mechanism of Soil Mass
Research Orientation 3: Mechanical Characteristics of Protection and Reinforcement of Ancient Sites in Western China
l The Mechanical Properties of the Protection and Reinforcement Project of Conglomerate Grottoes
l Reinforcement Materials and Mechanical Properties of Soil Construction Sites
l Simulation of Mechanical Properties of Cultural Relic Materials in Long-term Deterioration Process
Research Orientation 4: Quantitative Analysis of Multi-field Coupling Complex System and Cross-scale Nonlinear Mechanics
l Numerical Modeling and Calculation of Cross-scale Mechanical System
l Calculation Method of Multifield Coupling Nonlinearity for Complex Mechanical System
l High-performance Parallel Computing for Massive Computing
Research Orientation 5: Research on Functional New Materials and Intelligent Structure
l High-performance Superconducting Material
l 3D Printing Graphene-based Smart Structure and Multifunctional Composite Material
l New Reinforcement Material of Carbon Fiber Structure
Academic Exchange
The laboratory actively carries out academic exchanges and cooperation, and has built long-term and stable cooperative relations with many research institutes at home and abroad. The laboratory has established stable scientific research cooperation relationships with the Institute of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Kyoto University in Japan, the National Laboratory of Wind Erosion Research at USDA-ARS Wind Erosion, the City University of Hong Kong, and the cultural relics protection institutions of the United States and the United Kingdom. It also conducts various forms of cooperation with the Cold and Arid Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Lanzhou Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Science, the National Key Laboratory of Glacier and Frozen Soil Engineering, the Northwest Branch of China Railway Institute, the Landslide Research Institute in Gansu, the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Engineering Mechanics of the State Seismological Bureau, the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and domestic research institutions such as Peking University. Making full use of the multidisciplinary development advantages of comprehensive universities, the laboratory also engages in substantive cooperation with the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the College of Earth and Environmental Science, the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the School of Physical Science and Technology and the High-performance Computing Center of Engineering and Science. The researchers of the laboratory have participated in more than 851 academic conferences at home and abroad. More than 170 scholars from home and abroad have been invited to give lectures in the laboratory, including more than 30 academicians of the two academies.
Infrastructure
Depending on the supporting units and with the support of the 985 project and the 211 project, the laboratory has established an advanced and high-end scientific research platform, which provides strong support for scientific research and personnel training in the laboratory. At present, the key laboratory has more than 103 sets of equipment of more than 100,000 yuan, more than 20 sets of equipment of more than 500,000 yuan, and the total value of fixed assets has reached more than 71.9 million yuan. It has set up multi-functional environmental wind tunnel, Technology Research Center of National Ancient Mural Protection Engineering, High-performance Computing Center for Engineering and Science, Minqin (Gansu) Wind and Sand Field Observation Station, Lanzhou Geophysical National Field Observation and Research Station (co-built with the Gansu Earthquake Administration), Yuzhong Landslide Field Observation Station and other scientific research bases. The laboratory has purchased numerous large scientific instruments and equipment such as high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation test system, force-magnetic coupling measurement system, sediment transport intensity measurement system, dust meter, cryogenic system, radiation detector, portable multifunctional geological radar, soil solute transport tester, and ferroelectric synthesizer film temperature tester, which provide a solid foundation for the carrying out of high-level scientific research.
Organization Structuring
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Laboratory Director: |
Professor Huang Ning
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Deputy Laboratory Director:
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Professor Zhang Xingyi, Professor Wang Xingzhe |
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Deputy Executive Director: |
Mao Guoliang |
Academic Board
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Director: |
Academician Lai Yuanming |
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Deputy Director: |
Academician Yu Qifeng, Academician Zheng Xiaojing, Professor Zhou Youhe |
Research Institute
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Research Center for Environmental Mechanics of Aeolian Sand |
Director: Professor Zheng Xiaojing |
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Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering Research Center |
Director: Professor Chen Wenwu |
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Heritage Conservation Research Center |
Director: Professor Zhang Huyuan |
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Complex Mechanical System Simulation Research Center |
Director: Professor Zhou Youhe |
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West Natural Disaster Information Center |
Director: Professor Huang Ning |
Laboratory and Work Station
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Gansu Sandstorm Field Scientific Observation and Research Station (Minqin) |
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Gansu International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Research on Wind-Sand Environmental Mechanics |
Head of the Station: |
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Multi-Functional Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory |
Director: Cheng Ning |
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High Performance Computer Cluster Center |
Director: Zhou Jun |
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Field Scientific Observation and Research Station of Loess Landslide |
Director: Zhang Fanyu |
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Electromagnetic Solid Mechanics Laboratory |
Director: Zhang Xingyi |
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Geological Structure Safety Laboratory |
Director: Liu Ping |
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Geological Engineering laboratory |
Director: Zhang Fanyu |