Bold indicates PI, underline indicates supervised students.

2023

  1. Gou, Lingyun, Chao Zhang, Ning Lu, and Shaojie Hu. “A Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Equation Incorporating Adsorption and Capillarity.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 149, no. 8 (2023): 04023056.

  2. Zhao, Ningning, Shaojie Hu, Chao Zhang, Fuxiang Li, and Renpeng Chen. “Physical Origins of Freezing and Melting Temperature Depressions of Water in Millimeter-Sized Pores.” Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects (2023): 131851.

  3. Chen, Renpeng, Zhixiong Lang, Chao Zhang, Ningning Zhao, and Peng Deng. “A paradigm for seismic resilience assessment of subway system.” Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 135 (2023): 105061.

  4. Ren, Yuhao, Chao Zhang, Minxiang Zhu, Renpeng Chen, and Jianbo Wang. “Significance and formulation of ground loss in tunneling-induced settlement prediction: a data-driven study.” Acta Geotechnica (2023): 1-16.

  5. Gou, Lingyun, Chao Zhang, Shaojie Hu, Renpeng Chen, and Yi Dong. “Semi-analytical solutions for soil consolidation induced by drying.” Acta Geotechnica 18, no. 2 (2023): 739-755.

  6. Hu, Shaojie, and Chao Zhang. “A sorption isotherm model for soil incorporating external and internal surface adsorption, and capillarity.” Canadian Geotechnical Journal (2023).

  7. Hu, Shaojie, Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Quantifying Coupling Effects Between Soil Matric Potential and Osmotic Potential.” Water Resources Research 59, no. 2 (2023): e2022WR033779.

2022

  1. Chao Zhang, Shaojie Hu, Zemin Qiu, and Ning Lu. “A poroelasticity theory for soil incorporating adsorption and capillarity.” Géotechnique (2022): 1-18.

  2. Chao Zhang, Lingyun Gou, Shaojie Hu, and Ning Lu. “A thermodynamic formulation of water potential in soil.” Water Resources Research 58, no. 9 (2022): e2022WR032369.

  3. Luo, Shengmin, Ning Lu, Chao Zhang, and William Likos. “Soil water potential: A historical perspective and recent breakthroughs.” Vadose Zone Journal 21, no. 4 (2022): e20203.

  4. Wang, Jianbo, Zemin Qiu, Chao Zhang, and Renpeng Chen. “Assessing temperature dependence of soil water adsorption strength by molecular simulation.” Géotechnique Letters 12, no. 2 (2022): 125-130.

  5. Chao Zhang, Shaojie Hu, and Ning Lu. “Unified elastic modulus characteristic curve equation for variably saturated soils.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 148, no. 1 (2022): 04021171.

2021

  1. Wang, Yijie, Liming Hu, Chao Zhang, Shengmin Luo, and Ning Lu. “Liquid cavitation during nitrogen sorption on soils.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics 147, no. 11 (2021): 04021099.

  2. Chao Zhang, Jianbo Wang, and Renpeng Chen. “Water adsorption isotherms on soil external particle surface by molecular simulation.” Computers and Geotechnics 139 (2021): 104432.

  3. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Soil sorptive potential–based paradigm for soil freezing curves.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 147, no. 9 (2021): 04021086.

2020

  1. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Unified effective stress equation for soil.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics 146, no. 2 (2020): 04019135.

  2. Lu, Ning, and Chao Zhang. “Separating external and internal surface areas of soil particles.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 146, no. 2 (2020): 04019126.

  3. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Soil sorptive potential: Its determination and predicting soil water density.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 146, no. 1 (2020): 04019118.

  4. Ke, Wenhai, Qijian Liu, and Chao Zhang. “Kinematic bending of single piles in layered soil.” Acta Geotechnica 14 (2019): 101-110.

2019

  1. Ke, Wenhai, Qijian Liu, and Chao Zhang. “Kinematic bending of single piles in layered soil.” Acta Geotechnica 14 (2019): 101-110.

  2. Lu, Ning, and Chao Zhang. “Soil sorptive potential: Concept, theory, and verification.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 145, no. 4 (2019): 04019006.

  3. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Augmented Brunauer–Emmett–Teller equation for water adsorption on soils.” Vadose Zone Journal 18, no. 1 (2019): 1-12.

  4. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “Unitary definition of matric suction.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 145, no. 2 (2019): 02818004.

2018

  1. Chao Zhang, Peng Deng, and Wenhai Ke. “Kinematic response of rectangular piles under S waves.” Computers and Geotechnics 102 (2018): 229-237.

  2. Deng, Peng, Chao Zhang, Shiling Pei, and Zhibin Jin. “Modeling the impact of corrosion on seismic performance of multi-span simply-supported bridges.” Construction and Building Materials 185 (2018): 193-205.

  3. Chao Zhang, and N. Lu. “Measuring soil-water density by helium pycnometer.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 144, no. 9 (2018): 02818002.

  4. Deng, Peng, Shiling Pei, John W. van de Lindt, and Chao Zhang. “Experimental investigation of seismic uncertainty propagation through shake table tests.” Journal of Structural Engineering 144, no. 3 (2018): 06017009.

  5. Chao Zhang, and Ning Lu. “What is the range of soil water density? Critical reviews with a unified model.” Reviews of Geophysics 56, no. 3 (2018): 532-562.

  6. Chao Zhang, and Zhen Liu. “Freezing of water confined in porous materials: role of adsorption and unfreezable threshold.” Acta Geotechnica 13 (2018): 1203-1213.

  7. Chao Zhang, Zhen Liu, and Peng Deng. “Using molecular dynamics to unravel phase composition behavior of nano-size pores in frozen soils: Does Young–Laplace equation apply in low temperature range?.” Canadian Geotechnical Journal 55, no. 8 (2018): 1144-1153.

2017 and earlier

  1. Ke, Wenhai, and Chao Zhang. “A closed-form solution for kinematic bending of end-bearing piles.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 103 (2017): 15-20.

  2. Chao Zhang, Zhen Liu, and Yi Dong. “Effects of adsorptive water on the rupture of nanoscale liquid bridges.” Applied Clay Science 146 (2017): 487-494.

  3. Chao Zhang, Yi Dong, and Zhen Liu. “Lowest matric potential in quartz: Metadynamics evidence.” Geophysical Research Letters 44, no. 4 (2017): 1706-1713.

  4. Chao Zhang, Qijian Liu, and Peng Deng. “Surface Motion of a Half‐Space with a semicylindrical canyon under P, SV, and rayleigh waves.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107, no. 2 (2017): 809-820.

  5. Liu, Qijian, Chao Zhang, and Maria I. Todorovska. “Scattering of SH waves by a shallow rectangular cavity in an elastic half space.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 90 (2016): 147-157.

  6. Chao Zhang, Zhen Liu, and Peng Deng. “Atomistic‐scale investigation of effective stress principle of saturated porous materials by molecular dynamics.” Geophysical Research Letters 43, no. 19 (2016): 10-257.

  7. Chao Zhang, Zhen Liu, and Peng Deng. “Contact angle of soil minerals: A molecular dynamics study.” Computers and Geotechnics 75 (2016): 48-56.

  8. Liu, Qijian, Mingjuan Zhao, and Chao Zhang. “Antiplane scattering of SH waves by a circular cavity in an exponentially graded half space.” International Journal of Engineering Science 78 (2014): 61-72.

  9. Ke, Wenhai, Chao Zhang, and Peng Deng. “Kinematic response of single piles to vertical P-waves in multilayered soil.” Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami 9, no. 02 (2015): 1550004.

  10. Chao Zhang, Qijian Liu, and Peng Deng. “Antiplane scattering of SH waves by a trapezoidal valley with a circular-arc alluvium in an elastic half space.” Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami 9, no. 03 (2015): 1550008.