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Overview

Hai-Sui Yu is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and specializes in engineering with a strong focus on civil and structural engineering. Their research addresses multiple subfields including mechanics of materials, safety, risk, reliability and quality, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as mechanical engineering.

The scientist's work is primarily situated within geotechnical engineering, covering a variety of topics such as geotechnical engineering and underground structures, soil mechanics, soil stabilization, soil and unsaturated flow, landslides and related hazards, geotechnical engineering and analysis, and rock mechanics and modeling.

Hai-Sui Yu has contributed to a number of recent scholarly papers, demonstrating a focus on soil mechanics, geotechnical behavior, and numerical methods. Notable publications include:

  • "Pullout behaviour of inclined shallow plate anchors in sand," 2021, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • "A cavity expansion-based solution for interpretation of CPTu data in soils under partially drained conditions," 2020, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • "Uplift Behavior of Pipes and Strip Plate Anchors in Sand," 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • "Benchmark solutions of large-strain cavity contraction for deep tunnel convergence in geomaterials," 2020, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
  • "Undrained cavity expansion in anisotropic soils with isotropic and frictional destructuration," 2021, Acta Geotechnica

Their work has been published in several key venues including:

  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Acta Geotechnica
  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Pei-Zhi Zhuang, Yunming Yang, Pin-Qiang Mo, Yang He, and Xiaohui Chen. These partnerships indicate a focused network within geotechnical and civil engineering research communities.

Hai-Sui Yu's publication count in main fields emphasizes expertise in engineering, with 151 publications. Within this, civil and structural engineering dominate with 116 publications, followed by contributions in mechanics of materials (11), management and related fields (7), safety and risk (6), and mechanical engineering (5).

Their main research topics center on geotechnical issues including soil stabilization and underground structures, reflecting an applied emphasis on the behavior of geomaterials and engineering solutions related to soil and rock mechanics.

Best Publications

  • Cavity Expansion Methods in Geomechanics

    Hai-Sui Yu

  • FINITE CAVITY EXPANSION IN DILATANT SOILS: LOADING ANALYSIS

    H.S. Yu;G.T. Houlsby

  • A novel discrete model for granular material incorporating rolling resistance

    M.J. Jiang;M.J. Jiang;H.-S. Yu;D. Harris

  • CASM: a unified state parameter model for clay and sand

    H. S. Yu

  • Plasticity and geotechnics

    Hai-Sui Yu

  • Limit Analysis versus Limit Equilibrium for Slope Stability

    H. S. Yu;R. Salgado;S. W. Sloan;J. M. Kim

  • Stability of plate anchors in undrained clay

    R. S. Merifield;S. W. Sloan;H. S. Yu

  • Aspects of finite element implementation of critical state models

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

  • Analysis of Cone Resistance: Review of Methods

    H. S. Yu;J. K. Mitchell

  • Two- and three-dimensional bearing capacity of foundations in clay

    R. Salgado;A. V. Lyamin;S. W. Sloan;H. S. Yu

  • UNDRAINED CAVITY EXPANSIONS IN CRITICAL STATE SOILS

    I. F. Collins;H. S. Yu

  • Three-Dimensional Lower Bound Solutions for Stability of Plate Anchors in Clay

    R. S. Merifield;A. V. Lyamin;S. W. Sloan;H. S. Yu

  • Variations of hydraulic properties of granular sandstones during water inrush : effect of small particle migration

    Dan Ma;Dan Ma;Mohammad Rezania;Hai-Sui Yu;Hai-Bo Bai

  • Discrete element modelling of deep penetration in granular soils

    M. J. Jiang;M. J. Jiang;H.-S. Yu;D. Harris

  • Bond rolling resistance and its effect on yielding of bonded granulates by DEM analyses

    M. J. Jiang;M. J. Jiang;H. S. Yu;D. Harris

  • Rigorous plasticity solutions for the bearing capacity of two-layered clays

    R. S. Merifield;S. W. Sloan;H. S. Yu

  • LIMIT ANALYSIS OF SOIL SLOPES SUBJECTED TO PORE-WATER PRESSURES

    J. Kim;R. Salgado;H. S. Yu

  • A simple and efficient approach to capturing bonding effect in naturally microstructured sands by discrete element method

    Mingjing Jiang;Hai-Sui Yu;Serge Leroueil

  • Plasticity solutions for soil behaviour around contracting cavities and tunnels

    H.S. Yu;R.K. Rowe

  • Lower bound limit analysis of unreinforced masonry shear walls

    D.J. Sutcliffe;H.S. Yu;A.W. Page

Frequent Co-Authors

Mingjing Jiang
Mingjing Jiang Tongji University
Scott W. Sloan
Scott W. Sloan University of Newcastle Australia
Glenn R. McDowell
Glenn R. McDowell University of Nottingham
Guy T. Houlsby
Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford
Daichao Sheng
Daichao Sheng University of Technology Sydney
Rodrigo Salgado
Rodrigo Salgado Purdue University West Lafayette
Nick Thom
Nick Thom University of Nottingham
Serge Leroueil
Serge Leroueil Université Laval
John P. Carter
John P. Carter University of Newcastle Australia
Andrei V. Lyamin
Andrei V. Lyamin University of Newcastle Australia

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