- 2023/11: Dr. Yan Wang and Mr. Gaoyang Hu started their one-year research visits to our research group.
- 2023/10: Wenbo attended the annual Canadian Geotechnical Conference ‘GeoSaskatoon’ and delivered two technical presentations.
- 2023/06: Wenbo has been awarded an NSERC Alliance International grant to collaborate with Dr. Adnan Sufia at the University of New South Wales in Australia on DEM-LBM for soil erosion.
- 2023/05: Dorsaf arrived at UNBC from Tunisia to start her 12-week summer internship on indentation testing on Montney rock.
- 2023/05: Emmanuel joined the research group as a master’s student in the MASc Engineering program and will be working on a Mitacs Accelerate research project with Gibraltar Mines on open pit wall deformation using field monitoring data and machine learning.
- 2022/11: A paper titled ‘Coupled thermal-hydraulic simulations of fracturing in granite under high temperature and high-pressure treatment via peridynamic’, co-authored by one of our visiting students, Yang Zhang, has been published in the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1365160922002131
- 2022/10: Huan and Wenbo attended the annual Canadian Geotechnical Conference ‘Geocalgary’. Huan delivered an oral presentation titled ‘Quantify the effect of mineralogical composition on mechanical properties of Montney siltstone using micro-indentation test and SEM-EDS analysis’. Wenbo chaired two technical sessions and attended two Canadian Geotechnical Society division meetings.
- 2022/09: Siva, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Queensland, started a 12-week MITACS research visit to our group.
- 2022/08: A joint manuscript ‘Suffusion of gap-graded soil with realistically shaped coarse grains: A DEM-DFM numerical study’ led by Dr. Fengshou Zhang and his student Tuo Wang at Tongji University has been accepted for publication in the ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics.
- 2022/06: Wenbo and co-PIs Drs. Matt Reid and Jueyi Sui have been awarded an NSERC RTI grant (one out of nine grants in Civil, Industrial and Systems Engineering nationwide) for purchasing a versatile mechanical tester for characterizing the engineering behaviours of various materials (e.g. rock/timber…)
- 2022/03: Hassan and Huan won first place and second place, respectively, in the Faculty of Science and Engineering’s Ph.D. student presentation session during the UNBC Research Week. Congrats Hassan and Huan!
- 2022/02: Wenbo has been awarded an NSERC Alliance International grant to collaborate with Prof. Ranjith Pathegama Gamage at Monash University on repurposing hydrocarbon formations for geothermal utilization.
- 2022/02: Our research on time-dependent sand proppant deformation conducted by UNBC undergraduates Diego/Drew has been accepted for publication in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. Click here for the full paper. Great job!
- 2021/12: Wenbo received an outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier – International Journal of Mining Science and Technology.
- 2021/10: Huan has been awarded a UNBC research project award for her research on Montney siltstone indentation.
- 2021/10: Wenbo is pleased to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Northern BC Section of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
- 2021/06: Wenbo has been awarded his first NSERC discovery grant ‘Improving characterization and modelling of the rock-proppant interaction in hydraulic fractures for deep-earth geo-resource extraction’. Many thanks for the support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/unbc-prof-to-study-ways-to-mitigate-resource-extraction-geohazards-3940521
- 2021/05 Wenbo is pleased to serve on the Rock Mechanics Division Committee of the Canadian Geotechnical Society.
- 2021/03: Our manuscript ‘Quantifying the influence of grain morphology on sand hydraulic conductivity: a detailed pore-scale study’ has been published in Computers and Geotechnics.
- 2021/02 Wenbo is pleased to serve on the Soil Mechanics and Foundation Division Committee of the Canadian Geotechnical Society.