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Overview

Fawu Wang is affiliated with Tongji University in China and focuses research efforts on environmental science and engineering disciplines. The scientist's main fields of study involve environmental science, with 67 publications, and engineering, represented by 50 publications. Within these broad areas, Wang's work further delves into subfields such as management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, civil and structural engineering, global and planetary change, and mechanics of materials.

The research topics covered by Wang prominently include landslides and related hazards, with 94 publications, followed by cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, dam engineering and safety, tree root and stability studies, soil and unsaturated flow, and geotechnical engineering and analysis.

Coauthor collaborations are an important aspect of Wang's research network. Frequent coauthors include Kounghoon Nam (13 joint publications), Kongming Yan (12 publications), Zijin Fu (8 publications), Guolong Zhu (8 publications), and Youqian Feng (8 publications).

Wang's research appears regularly in several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Landslides (21 publications)
  • Geoenvironmental Disasters (12 publications)
  • Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (3 publications)
  • Engineering Geology (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Wang include:

  • "An extreme rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment using autoencoder combined with random forest in Shimane Prefecture, Japan" (2020) - Geoenvironmental Disasters
  • "Controlling role of Ta-d pumice on the coseismic landslides triggered by 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake" (2020) - Landslides
  • "A predictive model for the geometry of landslide dams in V-shaped valleys" (2020) - Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
  • "A destructive mudstone landslide hit a high-speed railway on 15 September 2022 in Xining city, Qinghai province, China" (2023) - Landslides
  • "Enhanced Absence Sampling Technique for Data-Driven Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study in Songyang County, China" (2023) - Remote Sensing

In addition to journal publications, Wang has contributed to book literature. Wang authored a book titled Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Landslide hazards triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China

    Yueping Yin;Fawu Wang;Ping Sun

  • The July 14, 2003 Qianjiangping landslide, Three Gorges Reservoir, China

    Fa-Wu Wang;Ye-Ming Zhang;Zhi-Tao Huo;Tatsunori Matsumoto

  • Preliminary investigation of some large landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan Province, China.

    Fawu Wang;Qiangong Cheng;Lynn Highland;Masakatsu Miyajima

  • Mechanism of a long-runout landslide triggered by the August 1998 heavy rainfall in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

    F.W Wang;Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang

  • Mechanism for the rapid motion of the Qianjiangping landslide during reactivation by the first impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir, China

    Fawu Wang;Yeming Zhang;Zhitao Huo;Xuanming Peng

  • Landslide deformation behavior influenced by water level fluctuations of the Three Gorges Reservoir (China)

    Kun Song;Fawu Wang;Qinglin Yi;Shuqiang Lu

  • Movement of the Shuping landslide in the first four years after the initial impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir, China

    Fawu Wang;Yeming Zhang;Zhitao Huo;Xuanming Peng

  • Mechanism and failure process of Qianjiangping landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

    Wenxing Jian;Wenxing Jian;Qiang Xu;Hufeng Yang;Fawu Wang

  • Landslide risk evaluation and hazard zoning for rapid and long-travel landslides in urban development areas

    Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Fawu Wang

  • Characteristics of landslides triggered by the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Northern Japan

    Shuai Zhang;Ran Li;Fawu Wang;Akinori Iio

  • Progress in Landslide Science

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi. Fukuoka;Fawu Wang;Gonghui Wang

  • Dynamic properties of earthquake-induced large-scale rapid landslides within past landslide masses

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Fawu Wang;Gonghui Wang

  • Landslide simulation by a geotechnical model combined with a model for apparent friction change

    Fawu Wang;Kyoji Sassa

  • The influence of grading on the shear strength of loose sands in stress-controlled ring shear tests

    Ogbonnaya Igwe;Kyoji Sassa;Fawu Wang

  • Preliminary investigation of the 20 August 2014 debris flows triggered by a severe rainstorm in Hiroshima City, Japan

    Fawu Wang;Ying-Hsin Wu;Hufeng Yang;Yuta Tanida

  • Landslides Induced by a Combined Effect of Earthquake and Rainfall

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Fawu Wang;Gonghui Wang

  • Experimental study to identify premonitory factors of landslide dam failures

    Fawu Wang;Zili Dai;Chukwueloka Austin Udechukwu Okeke;Yasuhiro Mitani

  • Landslide disaster mitigation in Three Gorges Reservoir, China

    Fawu Wang;Tonglu Li

  • An extreme rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility assessment using autoencoder combined with random forest in Shimane Prefecture, Japan

    Kounghoon Nam;Fawu Wang

  • Critical hydraulic gradients for seepage-induced failure of landslide dams

    Austin Chukwueloka-Udechukwu Okeke;Fawu Wang

  • Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change

    Wei Shan;Ying Guo;Fawu Wang;Hideaki Marui

  • Seismic stability analysis of slope reinforced with a row of piles

    Ting-Kai Nian;Jing-Cai Jiang;Fa-Wu Wang;Qing Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyoji Sassa
Kyoji Sassa Kyoto University
Gonghui Wang
Gonghui Wang Kyoto University
Hiroshi Fukuoka
Hiroshi Fukuoka Niigata University
Adam Emmer
Adam Emmer University of Graz
Yueping Yin
Yueping Yin China Geological Survey
Giovanni B. Crosta
Giovanni B. Crosta University of Milano-Bicocca
Huiming Tang
Huiming Tang China University of Geosciences
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu Chengdu University of Technology
Kaoru Takara
Kaoru Takara Kyoto University
Veronica Tofani
Veronica Tofani University of Florence

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