Homepage of Prof. Wu, Ibaraki University.

 

 

 

Research Fields

 

 

 

Ø  FRP composites and technologies, maintenance and life-cycle engineering such as performance enhancement and hybridization, innovation of repairing, strengthening and upgrading techniques for existing infrastructure, construction of innovative hybrid FRP-concrete structures, damage controlled structural systems, and long-span bridges with FRP composites.

Ø  Fibre optic and advanced sensors technology, structural health monitoring and control, and smart materials, structures and infrastructure systems such as development of advanced optic fiber sensors and carbon sensors, bio-inspired technologies and early damage prognosis and structural vulnerability assessment system

Ø  Sustainable materials and energy conservation technologies such as high performance hybrid insulators and super-efficient and innovative latent heat storage and humidity-controlled materials

Ø  Computational fracture and failure mechanics of composite materials and structures such as constitutive theories on quasi brittle, heterogeneous and composite materials  and modeling of crack, debonding, faulting discontinuity

 

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