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Gonghui Wang

Gonghui Wang

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
52
Citations
9415
World Ranking
3660
National Ranking
54

Earth Science

D-Index
54
Citations
10802
World Ranking
2689
National Ranking
58

Overview

Gonghui Wang is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and environmental science. Their research primarily addresses landslides and related hazards, soil and unsaturated flow, geotechnical engineering and analysis, as well as earthquake and tectonic studies. Their expertise also encompasses granular flow and fluidized beds, dam engineering and safety, and rock mechanics and modeling.

The scientist's work is documented through numerous publications, with a strong presence in key journals such as Engineering Geology, where they have published 18 papers. Other frequent publication venues include the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface and Geophysical Research Letters, each featuring two of their works, alongside publications in Earth-Science Reviews and the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth.

Gonghui Wang has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, including Wei Hu, Yao Jiang, Yangshuai Zheng, Runqiu Huang, and Fanyu Zhang. These collaborations span various projects and contribute to the multidisciplinary scope of their research.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on landslide mechanisms, soil behavior, and technological advances in hazard investigation. Notable recent publications include:

  • Liquefaction within a bedding fault: Understanding the initiation and movement of the Daguangbao landslide triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (2021, Engineering Geology)
  • Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Initiation and mobility of recurring loess flowslides on the Heifangtai irrigated terrace in China: Insights from hydrogeological conditions and liquefaction criteria (2022, Engineering Geology)
  • Predicting the sliding behavior of rotational landslides based on the tilting measurement of the slope surface (2020, Engineering Geology)
  • Effects of clay content on the shear behaviors of sliding zone soil originating from muddy interlayers in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China (2021, Engineering Geology)

Their work spans several subfields, including management, monitoring, policy and law; civil and structural engineering; geophysics; safety, risk, reliability and quality; and computational mechanics. This multidisciplinary approach supports a comprehensive understanding of natural hazard phenomena and contributes to the development of better management and mitigation strategies.

Best Publications

  • Distribution pattern of earthquake-induced landslides triggered by the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Tolga Gorum;Xuanmei Fan;Xuanmei Fan;Cees J. van Westen;Run Qiu Huang

  • Pore-pressure generation and movement of rainfall-induced landslides: effects of grain size and fine-particle content

    Gonghui Wang;Kyoji Sassa

  • Landslides induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China

    Masahiro Chigira;Xiyong Wu;Takashi Inokuchi;Gonghui Wang

  • Undrained dynamic-loading ring-shear apparatus and its application to landslide dynamics

    Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Gonghui Wang;Naohide Ishikawa

  • Distribution and characteristics of landslide in Loess Plateau: A case study in Shaanxi province

    Jianqi Zhuang;Jianbing Peng;Gonghui Wang;Iqbal Javed

  • Factors affecting rainfall-induced flowslides in laboratory flume tests

    G. Wang;K. Sassa

  • Failure processes in a full-scale landslide experiment using a rainfall simulator

    H. Moriwaki;T. Inokuchi;T. Hattanji;K. Sassa

  • Triggering conditions and depositional characteristics of a disastrous debris flow event in Zhouqu city, Gansu Province, northwestern China

    C. Tang;N. Rengers;Th. W. J. van Asch;Y. H. Yang

  • Undrained shear behavior of loess saturated with different concentrations of sodium chloride solution

    Fanyu Zhang;Gonghui Wang;Toshitaka Kamai;Wenwu Chen

  • Research on the stabilization treatment of clay slope topsoil by organic polymer soil stabilizer

    Jin Liu;Jin Liu;Bin Shi;Hongtao Jiang;He Huang

  • Study of the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake-induced landslides in loess (China)

    Dexuan Zhang;Gonghui Wang

  • The influence of intense rainfall on the activity of large-scale crystalline schist landslides in Shikoku Island, Japan

    Yong Hong;Hiromasa Hiura;Kazuo Shino;Kyoji Sassa

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

    F.W Wang;Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang

  • A rapid loess flowslide triggered by irrigation in China

    Dexuan Zhang;Gonghui Wang;Chunyong Luo;Jun Chen

  • Mechanism of the slow-moving landslides in Jurassic red-strata in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

    Haibo Miao;Haibo Miao;Gonghui Wang;Kunlong Yin;Toshitaka Kamai

  • Pore-pressure generation and fluidization in a loess landslide triggered by the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, China: A case study

    Gonghui Wang;Dexuan Zhang;Gen Furuya;Jun Yang

  • Effect of irrigation-induced densification on the post-failure behavior of loess flowslides occurring on the Heifangtai area, Gansu, China

    Fanyu Zhang;Gonghui Wang

  • 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

  • PERFORMING UNDRAINED SHEAR TESTS ON SATURATED SANDS IN A NEW INTELLIGENT TYPE OF RING SHEAR APPARATUS

    Kyoji Sassa;Gonghui Wang;Hiroshi Fukuoka

  • Shear‐rate‐dependent strength control on the dynamics of rainfall‐triggered landslides, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

    Gonghui Wang;Akira Suemine;William H. Schulz

  • Landslide movement in southwest Colorado triggered by atmospheric tides

    William H. Schulz;Jason W. Kean;Gonghui Wang

  • Downslope volume enlargement of a debris slide–debris flow in the 1999 Hiroshima, Japan, rainstorm

    Gonghui Wang;Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyoji Sassa
Kyoji Sassa Kyoto University
Hiroshi Fukuoka
Hiroshi Fukuoka Niigata University
Fawu Wang
Fawu Wang Tongji University
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu Chengdu University of Technology
Masahiro Chigira
Masahiro Chigira Kyoto University
Runqiu Huang
Runqiu Huang Chengdu University of Technology
Jianbing Peng
Jianbing Peng Chang'an University
Jun Yang
Jun Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Pierre-Yves Hicher
Pierre-Yves Hicher École Centrale de Nantes
C.J. van Westen
C.J. van Westen University of Twente

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