Dr Huangbin LIANG

On-going: Aim to develop a hybrid (data & model-based) approach capitalizing on monitoring data and then a sequential decision support framework capitalizing on real-time digital twins of monitored systems to maximize resilience; to implement the developed model and framework on real-world engineering as case verification.

Previous: Seismic performance evaluation of electrical equipment and coupling facilities in electrical substations through establishing their theoretical or finite element models and conducting shaking table tests; proposed system analysis methods for substation systems based on Simulink platform and network analysis approach; applied the Copula function to consider partial correlations among the components in the system and employed the Machine learning-based/ Polynomial Chaos Expansion surrogate modeling techniques for rapid uncertainty quantification; established a seismic resilience assessment and improvement framework for electrical substations to track the recovery of the substation’s post-earthquake functionality and inform decision-making.

Research Interests:

• infrastructure resilience
• uncertainty quantification
• digital twins
• decision-support framework

Publications:

1. Shaking table test on 1000 kV UHV transmission tower-line coupling system(external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2020.06.017)
2. System Vulnerability Analysis Simulation Model for Substation Subjected to Earthquakes(DOI:10.1109/TPWRD.2021.3114279)
3. Seismic performance improvement of ±800 kV UHV DC wall busing using friction ring spring dampers(external page https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293020970)
4. Seismic risk analysis of electrical substations based on the network analysis method(external page https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3695)
5. Resilience-Based Sequential Recovery Planning for Substations Subjected to Earthquakes(DOI:10.1109/TPWRD.2022.3187162)
6. Seismic resilience assessment and improvement framework for electrical substations(external page https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3800)
7. An analytical model for seismic response analysis of electrical equipment-steel support structure(external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2023.108379)
   
   

Education

• ETH Zürich (February 2021- January 2023) Academic guest at the Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering supervised by Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic
• Tongji University (September 2017- August 2023) Ph.D. in Structural Engineering
• Tongji University (September 2013- June 2017) B.S. in Civil Engineering
   

Awards

• Excellent Student Scholarship of Tongji University, in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
• The Best Conference Paper Award of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, in 2019.