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Wei Chen got Ph.D. from Geotechnical Institute of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany in 2015. He is currently an associate professor and master/PhD tutor in the Department of Railway Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Central South University.

His research topics are mainly related to new track structure, track and tunnel damage, track geometry detection and tunnel damage detection, damage constitutive model of rock and concrete materials, rock soil interaction and deformation .  He has published 27 SCI papers in high-level journals, applied for 6 patents,  participated in writing two English Monographs about rock mechanics and geological hazards along the railway, been responsible for translating one Chinese railway code into English (TB / t2897-1998 Railway Sub ballast), and won the second prize of science and technology award of China Railway Society in 2020.

Contact: Chenwei csu@foxmail.com /chenwei.2016@csu.edu.cn

He mainly teaches the course of railway engineering.

There are three positions for master students from  road and railway engineering (master degree), civil engineering (master degree) and civil and hydraulic engineering (master degree) every year.

Some of published English papers are as follows：

[1] Chen W(陈伟), Zhang TQ(张天齐), Chen WY*(陈炜昀), Wu Z(吴州), Li X(李响)，Liu C(刘超). Frost heave force analysis of pre-embedded dowel in the high-speed railway ballastless track [J]. Construction and Building Materials, 2022 (321) 126422.

[2] Chen W(陈伟), Wu Z(吴州), Zhu ZH(朱志辉), Chen WY*(陈炜昀), Wang WD(王卫东), Zeng ZP(曾志平). Pull out and pre-tightening force tests for plastic dowel of the railway sleeper considering the influence of installing torque and frost force [J]. Construction and Building Materials, 2021 (267) 120948.

[3] Chen W(陈伟), Xie WY(解汪洋), Li X*(李响), Zhou WJ(邹文杰), Fu HL(傅鹤林). Determination of fracture energy and fracture toughness of two types of concrete and their interface [J]. European J. of Environmental & Civil Engineering, 2021, 25(1), 104–116.

[4] Chen W*(陈伟), Li DB(李东柏), Liu YQ(刘耀强), Zhu ZH(朱志辉), Huang Z(黄震), and Yan JX(颜俊雄). Development and application of a multi-sensor integration detection and analysis device for metro gauge and track geometric state[J]. AIP Advances 11, 065033 (2021); doi: 10.1063/5.0053474.

[5] Chen W(陈伟), Li DB(李东柏), Ma T*(马婷), Fu HL(傅鹤林), Du YP(杜雁鹏). Stability Analysis of a Slope Considering Two Reinforcement Processes [J]. Geofluids, 2020, 8828747.

[6] Chen W(陈伟), Konietzky H, Liu C*(刘超), Tan X(谭鑫). Hydraulic fracturing simulation for heterogeneous granite by discrete element method[J]. Computers and Geotechnics, 2018, 95: 1-15.

[7] Chen W(陈伟), Li X*(李响), Konietzky H. Numerical simulation of lifetime and time-dependent damage for granite by continuous and discontinuous approaches[J]. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2018, 77(594): DOI. 10.1007/s12665-018-7781-z.

[8] Chen W(陈伟), Konietzky H, Liu C*(刘超), Fu HL(傅鹤林), Zhang JB(张加兵). Prediction of brickwork failure using discrete element method[J]. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 2018, 30(9): 06018012.

[9] Chen W*(陈伟), Konietzky H, Tan X(谭鑫), Frühwirt T. Pre-failure damage analysis for brittle rocks under triaxial compression[J]. Computers and Geotechnics, 2016, 74: 45-55.

[10] Chen W*(陈伟), Konietzky H, Abbas S.M. Numerical simulation of time-independent and dependent fracturing in sandstone[J]. Engineering Geology, 2015, 193: 118-131.

[11] Chen W*(陈伟), Konietzky H. Simulation of heterogeneity, creep, damage and lifetime for loaded brittle rocks[J]. Tectonophysics, 2014, 633: 164-175.