Name 

Chonglei ZHANG 

Professional  

Title 

Associate Professor 

Address  

No. 9, Block 4, Renminnanlu Road, Chengdu, 610041, People’s Republic of China  

E-mail 

zhangchonglei@imde.ac.cn 

Professional  

Expertise 

Seismic response of soil slope; 

Reinforcement technology of mountain hazards; 

Formation mechanism of landslide; 

Geotechnical centrifuge and shaking table simulation technology of geological disasters 

Education 

2005-2009, B.S. in Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. 

2009-2015, Ph.D. in Road and Railway Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.

2013-2014, Joint Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, Newcastle University, Australia. 

Employment Record (including international working experience ) 

07/2020 - Current  Associate Professor, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

07/2015 - 06/2020  Assistant Professor, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  

Running Projects 

Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51808542);  

Program of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2019364).  

Academic Society Activities 

Member of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE); 

Member of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME).  

Awards 

2019 Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 

2019 Member of CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 

2015 Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award, Southwest Jiaotong University, in 2015.  

Publications  

[1] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu, Buzzi Olivier, Su Lijun. Full-scale model testing on the dynamic behaviour of weathered red mudstone subgrade under railway cyclic loading. Soils and Foundations, 2019, 59(2): 296-315. 

[2] Su Lijun, Li Cheng, Zhang Chonglei*. Large-scale shaking table tests on the seismic responses of soil slopes with various natural densities. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2020, 106409. 

[3] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu. Full-scale model testing of the dynamic response of lime-stabilized weathered red mudstone subgrade under railway excitation. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2020, 130: 105999.  

[4] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu, Su Lijun, Lei Da, Liu Weiming, Wang Zhimeng. Large-scale shaking table model test on seismic performance of bridge-pile-foundation slope with anti-sliding piles: a case study. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2020, 79, 1429-1447. 

[5] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu, Liu Xianfeng, Buzzi Olivier. Arching in geogrid-reinforced pile-supported embankments over silty clay of medium compressibility: Field data and analytical solution. Computers and Geotechnics, 2016, 77:11-25. 

[6] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu, Su Lijun, Liu Weiming. Dynamic behaviour of weathered red mudstone in Sichuan (China) under triaxial cyclic loading. Journal of Mountain Science, 2018, 15(8):1789-1806.  

[7] Zhang Chonglei, Jiang Guanlu, Liu Xianfeng, Su Lijun. Centrifuge Modelling and Analysis of Ground Reaction of High-speed Railway Embankments over Medium Compressibility Ground. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2018, 22(12):4826-4840.