Professional Title

Professor

Address

No.189, QunXianNan Street, TianFu New Area, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

E-mail

drsong@imde.ac.cn

Professional Expertise

Cross-scale physical modelling and field observation of debris flows; Mechanisms of debris flow-structure interaction; Innovation and design of debris flow flexible barriers; Ecological solutions for mitigation of geological hazards

Education

2013.01—2017.03, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, PhD

2010.09—2013.06, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), MPhil

2006.09—2010.06, China University of Mining and Technology, B.E.

Employment Record

2020.07—Now, Professor, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017.05—2020.07, Associate Professor, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Running Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Displacing mechanisms of large debris flow to buildings and accurate positioning for emergency rescue, 2025-2028

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Novel debris flow flexible barrier based on bionics: mechanism, model, and verification, 2021-2024

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Debris Flows Impact Mechanisms Based on Effects of Solid-fluid Coupling, 2019-2021

Academic Society Activities

Editor of journal Landslides, Journal of Mountain Science, and Frontiers in Earth Science

Awards

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPF)

Ringo Yu Prize for Best PhD Thesis in Geotechnical Studies (HKIE, 2017)

Publications

[1] Chen, Q.,Song, D.*, Chen, X. Q., Feng, L., Li, X., Zhao, W., Zhang, Y. (2024). The Erosion Pattern and Hidden Momentum in Debris‐Flow Surges Revealed by Simple Hydraulic Jump Equations.Water Resources Research, 60, e2023WR036090.

[2]Song, D., Chen, X. Q., Sadeghi, H., Zhong, W., Hu, H., Liu, W. (2023). Impact Behavior of Dense Debris Flows Regulated by Pore-Pressure Feedback.Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(12), e2023JF007074.

[3] Chen, Q.,Song, D.*, Chen, X. Q., Zhong, W. (2023). Visco-collisional scaling law of flow resistance and its application in debris-flow mobility.Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(2), e2022JF006712.

[4]Song, D., Bai, Y., Chen, X. Q., Zhou, G. G. D., Choi, C. E., Pasuto, A., Peng, P. (2022). Assessment of debris flow multiple-surge load model based on the physical process of debris-barrier interaction.Landslides, 19, 1165–1177.

[5]Song, D., Chen, X. Q., Zhou, G. G. D., Lu, X., Cheng, G., Chen, Q. (2021). Impact dynamics of debris flow against rigid obstacle in laboratory experiments.Engineering Geology, 291, 106211.

[6]Song, D., Zhou, G. G. D., Chen, X. Q., Li, J., Wang, A., Peng, P., Xue, K. X. (2021). General equations for landslide-debris impact and their application to debris-flow flexible barrier.Engineering Geology, 288, 106154.

[7]Song, D., Zhou, G. G. D., Xu, M., Choi, C. E., Li, S., Zheng Y. (2019). Quantitative analysis of debris-flow flexible barrier capacity from momentum and energy perspectives.Engineering Geology, 251, 81–92.

[8]Song, D., Choi, C. E., Ng, C. W. W., Zhou, G. G. D. (2018). Geophysical Flows Impacting a Flexible Barrier: Effects of Solid-fluid Interaction.Landslides, 15(1), 99-110.

[9]Song, D., Ng, C. W. W., Choi, C. E., Zhou, G. G. D., Kwan, J. S. H. Koo, R. C. H. (2017). Influence of debris flow solid fraction on rigid barrier impact.Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 54(10), 1421-1434.