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Daichao Sheng is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a focus on several civil and environmental subfields.

Their main areas of study include Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, Pollution, and Computational Mechanics. Sheng's work centers on key topics such as Landslides and related hazards, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Concrete Corrosion and Durability, Smart Materials for Construction, Dam Engineering and Safety, and Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis.

Sheng has published extensively, with a strong presence in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Acta Geotechnica
  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cement and Concrete Composites

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sheng include:

  • Development of sustainable concrete incorporating seawater: A critical review on cement hydration, microstructure and mechanical strength (2021, Cement and Concrete Composites)
  • Multifunctional cementitious composites with integrated self-sensing and hydrophobic capacities toward smart structural health monitoring (2021, Cement and Concrete Composites)
  • Investigation on physicochemical and piezoresistive properties of smart MWCNT/cementitious composite exposed to elevated temperatures (2020, Cement and Concrete Composites)
  • Machine learning aided stochastic reliability analysis of spatially variable slopes (2020, Computers and Geotechnics)
  • Piezoresistivity enhancement of functional carbon black filled cement-based sensor using polypropylene fibre (2020, Powder Technology)

Sheng collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Xuzhen He
  • Sheng Zhang
  • Wengui Li
  • Wenkui Dong
  • Chen-Xi Tong

Best Publications

  • Refined explicit integration of elastoplastic models with automatic error control

    Scott W. Sloan;Andrew J. Abbo;Daichao Sheng

  • A constitutive model for unsaturated soils: thermomechanical and computational aspects

    D. Sheng;S. Sloan;Antonio Gens

  • Aspects of finite element implementation of critical state models

    D. Sheng;S. W. Sloan;H. S. Yu

  • Review of fundamental principles in modelling unsaturated soil behaviour

    Daichao Sheng

  • A modification of the phase-field model for mixed mode crack propagation in rock-like materials

    Xue Zhang;Scott W. Sloan;Chet Vignes;Daichao Sheng

  • Finite element formulation and algorithms for unsaturated soils. Part I: theory

    Daichao Sheng;Scott W. Sloan;Antonio Gens;David W. Smith

  • On constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils

    Antonio Gens;Marcelo Sánchez;Daichao Sheng

  • Collapse behaviour of unsaturated compacted soil with different initial densities

    De'an Sun;Daichao Sheng;Yongfu Xu

  • Interpretation of unsaturated soil behaviour in the stress – Saturation space, I: Volume change and water retention behaviour

    An-Nan Zhou;Daichao Sheng;Scott W. Sloan;Antonio Gens

  • Elastoplastic modelling of hydraulic and stress-strain behaviour of unsaturated soils

    De’an Sun;Daichao Sheng;Scott W. Sloan

  • Finite element analysis of pile installation using large-slip frictional contact

    Daichao Sheng;K. Dieter Eigenbrod;Peter Wriggers

  • Modelling the effect of initial density on soil-water characteristic curves

    A.-N. Zhou;D. Sheng;J. P. Carter

  • Unsaturated soils: From constitutive modelling to numerical algorithms

    Daichao Sheng;Antonio Gens;Delwyn G. Fredlund;Scott W. Sloan

  • A potential new frost heave mechanism in high-speed railway embankments

    D. Sheng;S. Zhang;F. Niu;G. Cheng

  • Numerical evaluation of the phase-field model for brittle fracture with emphasis on the length scale

    Xue Zhang;Chet Vignes;Scott W. Sloan;Daichao Sheng

  • A density‐dependent elastoplastic hydro‐mechanical model for unsaturated compacted soils

    D. A. Sun;D. C. Sheng;H. B. Cui;S. W. Sloan

  • Piezoresistive behaviours of cement-based sensor with carbon black subjected to various temperature and water content

    Wenkui Dong;Wengui Li;Na Lu;Fulin Qu

  • Stress integration and mesh refinement for large deformation in geomechanics

    Majidreza Nazem;Daichao Sheng;John P. Carter

  • Coupling hydraulic with mechanical models for unsaturated soils

    Daichao Sheng;An-Nan Zhou

  • Development of sustainable concrete incorporating seawater: A critical review on cement hydration, microstructure and mechanical strength

    Peiran Li;Wengui Li;Zhihui Sun;Luming Shen

  • Shear Strength Criteria for Unsaturated Soils

    Daichao Sheng;Annan Zhou;Delwyn G. Fredlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott W. Sloan
Scott W. Sloan University of Newcastle Australia
John P. Carter
John P. Carter University of Newcastle Australia
Shanyong Wang
Shanyong Wang University of Newcastle Australia
Annan Zhou
Annan Zhou RMIT University
Wengui Li
Wengui Li University of New South Wales
De’an Sun
De’an Sun Shanghai University
Antonio Gens
Antonio Gens Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Jidong Zhao
Jidong Zhao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jinsong Huang
Jinsong Huang University of Newcastle Australia
Surendra P. Shah
Surendra P. Shah Northwestern University

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