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*Hsu,Keng-Tsang* My research team has been to develop nondestructive test techniques and its applications of infrastructure evaluation for recent years. The techniques such as normalized impact-echo spectrum was used to evaluate the quality of bond at steel plate/concrete interfaces, Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) image processing for assessing the repair quality of spillway foundations... Faculty Research Interests Website: Keng-Tsang Web
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*Cheng,Chia-Chi* The major research interests of our group are on using stress-wave related methods to detect deterioration of reinforced concrete structure. T wo innovated methods and their applications are in development for the assessments. First, developed from the traditional impact-echo method (IE), the simulated transfer function can be obtained solely from displacement waveforms of an IE test... Faculty Research Interests Website: Chia-Chi Web	*Cheng,Tao-Ming* Tao-ming Cheng has received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University. He became a faculty member of the Department of Construction Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taiwan from 1996. He was promoted as a full professor by CYUT in 2007. He has been the Head of the Department of CE, Acting Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Dean of Academic Affairs , and the Vice President. He is now the President of CYUT... Faculty Research Interests Website: Tao-Ming Web
*Chiang,Chih-Hung* My research team has been working on nondestructive testing and dynamic monitoring of wind turbines since 2013. These include simultaneous deflection measurements of multiple points on a wind-turbine system during operation and maintenance; frequency domain modeling for dynamic characteristics evaluation; and aerial survey and laser scanning of wind turbines for 3-D point cloud analysis... Faculty Research Interests Website: Chih-Hung Web	*Hsu,Shih-Tsung* I and my research team have been dedicated to experimental tests and numerical analyses of ground anchor for 20 years. These include laboratory and in-situ tests on vertical and inclined anchor groups in sand and gravel formation, 3-D numerical studies on interactive behaviors of anchor groups, establishing tables and figures for designing single anchors and anchor groups. Additionally, developing constitutive model, evaluating driven pile behavior, slope stability, and deep excavation are also my interesting... Faculty Research Interests Website: Shih-Tsung Web
*Hsu,Sung-Chi* I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and my research topic for PHD was about using distinct element method (DEM), Monte Carlo simulation, and random field model to run numerical experiments on big open excavation in Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. My area of interests are geotechnical engineering and rock engineering, and focused on slope stability of colluvium strata in central Taiwan... Faculty Research Interests Website: Sung-Chi Web	*Lee,Ming-Gin* The research of my group focuses on study, education and service activities in the field of sustainable infrastructures and related materials. Currently, there are three major research directions: (1) Material reduce , recycling, reuse (3R), energy conservation and carbon reduction emerging technologies; (2) Testing and characterization of infrastructure member and related materials; (3) Using retrofit materials to investigate... Faculty Research Interests Website: Ming-Gin Web
*Lin,Ji-Yuan* My areas of interests are geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. I have two professional engineering licenses of accredited qualifications in civil engineering and geotechnical engineering. During the previous study, my research team worked on the hazard assessment of debris flows using Geographic Information System (GIS) , hazard mitigation on debris-flow countermeasure in Lab and field investigation, multivariate analysis and artificial neural network applied on geotechnical engineering, et al. In recent years, my research focus on investigating for debris-flows and landslides had occurred and caused disasters during typhoon or extreme weather events in central Taiwan ... Faculty Research Interests Website: Ji-Yuan Web	*Pan,Chi-Ling* Chi-Ling Pan graduated from Fengchia University in 1983. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, where he has worked as a post-doctoral fellow of structural engineering. He is currently employed by Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT) as a professor in Department of Construction Engineering and Dean at college of science and engineering... Faculty Research Interests Website: Chi-Ling Web
Yu,Wen-Der Dr. Wen-der Yu is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management with the Department of Construction Engineering at Chaoyang University of Technology. His education includes BS degree from the Department of Civil Engineering of National Central University, Taiwan, MSCE and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. After graduating from Purdue University, he worked as a Senior Engineer with the Bureau of Taiwan High Speed Rail (BOTHSR) where he was in charge of project time and cost controls... Faculty Research Interests Website: Wen-Der Web	*Hsu,Wei-Ting* I had two main research areas, those are structural engineering and facilities management. My major research is on the behavior of Steel structures, such as the stability of symmetrical and unsymmetrical beam and column; analysis of strength in welded joints and bolt group... Faculty Research Interests Website:Wei -Ting Web
*Kan,Yu-Cheng* Doctor Kan's expertise focuses on the area of structural mechanics of concrete, in particular, in the fracture mechanics of concrete and the concrete repair materials and technology. His research also deals with the behavior of concrete slab and composite concrete deck. He has recently been engaging on the projects relating to the shielding concrete and the structural behavior concrete used in the nuclear power plant facility... Faculty Research Interests Website: Yu-Cheng Web	*Lai,Jiunnren* The research interests of Prof. Lai can be classified into three categories: 1. Integrity testing of piles with surface reflection non-destructive testing technique. 2. Geophysical site exploration with spectrum analysis of surface save (SASW), ground penetration radar (GPR) and ground resistivity method. 3. Ground improvement with geosynthetic material... Faculty Research Interests Website: Jiunnren Web
*Tsai,Pei-Hsun* My research team performs some research issues on soil dynamic in recent years. (1) The screening effectiveness of wave barriers on reducing vibration induced by high speed train has been investigated. The wave barriers include open trench or multiple rows of piles. The ground surface vibrations are measured and are simulated by numerical method... Faculty Research Interests Website: Pei-Hsun Web	*Wang,Grace* My research interest lies in system identification and damage assessment using hybrid genetic algorithm developed from artificial intelligence area. Currently, there are two major research directions: (1) Investigating dynamic behavior of the semi active controlled system; (2) Developing the fragility curves associate with the above systems... Faculty Research Interests Website: Grace Web
*Wu,Hsien-Tang* Hsien-Tang Wu has received his Ph.D. in 2006 from Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kong University, Taiwan. He became a faculty member of the Department of Construction Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taiwan from 2005. He was promoted as associate professor by CYUT in 2015. He has been awarded best advisor by CYUT in 2010 and awarded best teacher by CYUT in 2013... Faculty Research Interests Website: Hsien-Tang Web	*Huang,Yishuo* My research focuses on applying remote sensing to monitor the environmental changes for preventing natural disasters and environmental substantiality. Several works include that the object-oriented registration, thermal image segmentation and point cloud analysis. Furthermore, remote sensing is applied to nondestructive testing and the restoration a 3D scene from the collected information of Ground Penetration Radar (GPR)... Faculty Research Interests Website: Yishuo web
*Lin,Yung-Chiang* My research team focuses primarily on stress wave and structural health monitoring related studies. Recently, our main efforts have been concentrated on research concerning the application of stress wave for detecting internal defects in materials. The stress wave method primarily evaluates structural defects and deterioration states based on the dispersion characteristics of group wave velocities..... Faculty Research Interests Website: Yung-Chiang Web	*Hsian,Wen-Ta* My research team has been working on the application of human factors in construction engineering. These include use the infrared thermal imaging camera to measurement construction laborers' nose tip temperature variations to evaluate theirs mental workload. And use a respiratory measurement system to measure laborers' working oxygen consumption reckoning theirs physiological load of work... Faculty Research Interests Website: Wen-Ta Web