Yida Zhang is a Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Eng., CUBoulder

Education

2010 B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University

2012 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University

2016 Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

Research and Professional Experience

2016-present Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Eng., Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics group, University of Colorado Boulder


Awards and Fellowships

2015 Terminal Year Fellowship, Northwestern University

2012 Water P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University


Publications

5 publications most closely related to the proposed project:

Zhang, Y. (2018). Mechanics of adsorption-deformation coupling in porous media. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 114, 31-54. Link

Zhang, Y., Buscarnera, G. (2017). Breakage mechanics for granular materials in surface-reactive environments. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 112, 89-108. Link

Zhang, Y., Buscarnera, G. (2017). A rate-dependent breakage model based on the kinetics of crack growth at the grain scale. Géotechnique 67(11), 953-967. Link

Zhang, Y., Buscarnera, G., Einav, I. (2015). Grainsize dependence of yielding in granular soils interpreted using fracture mechanics, breakage mechanics, and Weibull statistics. Géotechnique 66(2), 149-160. Link

Zhou, X., Ma, G., Zhang, Y. (2018). Grain size and time effect on the deformation of rockfill dams: a case study on the Shuibuya CFRD. Géotechnique 69(7), 606-619. Link

5 other significant publications:

Zheng, H., Zhang, Y., Yang, Z.X. (2019) Suffusion-induced evolution of mechanical and microstructural properties of gap-graded soils using CFD-DEM. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 146(5), 04020024. Link

Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., Wen, Y. (2019) A constitutive theory for sand based on the concept of critical fabric surface. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 146(4), 04020019. Link

Ma, G., Zhang, Y., Zhou, W., Ng, T.T., Wang, Q., Chen, X. (2017). The effect of different fracture mechanisms on impact fragmentation of brittle heterogeneous solid. International Journal of Impact Engineering 113, 132-143. Link

Zhang, Y., Buscarnera, G. (2016). Implicit Integration under Mixed Controls of a Breakage Model for Unsaturated Crushable Soils. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 40 (6). 887-918. Link

Sohn, C., Zhang, Y., Cil, M & Buscarnera, G. (2017) Experimental assessment of continuum breakage models accounting for mechanical interactions at particle contacts. Granular Matter 19(4), 67. Link

Synergistic Activities

· Committee member of the Granular materials and Modeling Inelasticity and Multiscale Behavior of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of ASCE; Unsaturated Soils of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

· Reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Geophysical Research Letters, Géotechnique, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Computers and Geotechnics, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Geotechnical Testing Journal, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, Mechanics Research Communications.

· Reviewer for the following Grant Agencies: National Science Foundation (NSF)-Geotechnical Engineering and Materials, NSF- Fluid Dynamics, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

· Member of the Editorial Panel of Géotechnique Letters.

· Session Chair on Numerical Modeling of Civil Rock Engineering Projects in ARMA 2018; Track Lead on Special topics in EMI 2019; Session Chair on Micro- and nano-geomechanics in ARMA 2019; Session Chair on Numerical Modeling in Civil Engineering Projects in ARMA 2020.