Dr. Lin is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting at Jianghan University. Dr. Lin has been dedicated to research and teaching in the field of nondestructive testing in civil engineering. He has achieved a series of innovative results in stress wave propagation theory, nondestructive testing technologies, testing software and hardware development, and engineering applications. He has led or participated in over 20 national and local research projects, published more than 40 SCI-indexed journal papers, and holds 8 authorized invention patents and 4 software copyrights. He has contributed to the compilation of 5 standards and authored 3 books. His work has earned him one provincial second prize for technological invention, and one first prize and one second prize from professional societies. The testing equipment he has developed has been applied in dozens of engineering projects.
Dr. Lin serves as an editorial board member or guest editor for 4 SCI-indexed journals and is a member of 8 professional committees. He is an editorial board member of the international SCI journal Advances in Civil Engineering and a guest editor for Buildings and Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration. Additionally, he holds memberships in 7 international professional committees, including 3 with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2 with the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), and 2 with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
Work experience
Professor
Jianghan University, China 2023.05 ‒ present
Associate Professor
Jianghan University, China 2022.05 ‒ 2023.05
Associate Professor
Dalian University of Technology, China 2018.12 ‒ 2022.04
Research Engineer
NDE Lab, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, FHWA, US DOT, USA 2018.05 ‒ 2018.11
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey), USA
Advisor: Nenad Gucunski 2016.05 ‒ 2018.04
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Iowa State University, USA
Advisor: Sri Sritharan 2014.05 ‒ 2016.04
Education
Iowa State University, USA
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Jeramy C. Ashlock Ames,IA 2010.08 ‒ 2014.04
Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration
M.S. in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Li-li Xie Harbin, China 2007.09 ‒ 2010.06
Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
B.S. in Civil Engineering Kunming, China 2003.09 ‒ 2007.06
Selected research projects
1.2022-2025, The Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province of China (PI).
2.2023-2026, Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hubei Province of China (PI).
3.2020-2022, National Natural Science Foundation of China: Theoretical and experimental study on detection of delamination in reinforced concrete bridge decks using stress waves (PI).
4.2020-2022, Scientific Research Fund of Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration: Theoretical and experimental research on nondestructive testing of invisible damage of earthquake-damaged reinforced concrete columns (PI).
5.2019-2021, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China: Research on nondestructive testing of reinforced concrete laminated slabs with invisible defects using stress waves (PI).
Selected peer-reviewed journal papers
1.Lin S., Ashlock J., Zhao G., Lai Q., Xu L., Zhai C. 2023. “Genetic-simulated annealing optimization for surface wave inversion of shear-wave velocity profiles of geotechnical sites.” Computers and Geotechnics, 160: 105525.
2.Lin S., Tang X., Li H., Gucunski N., Wang Y. 2023. “Nondestructive evaluation of concrete compressive strength using shear-horizontal waves.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (ASCE), 37(1): 06022002.
3.Lin S., Ashlock J., Xie L. 2023. “Phase-velocity and intercept-time scanning (PIS) technique for extracting experimental dispersion characteristics of surface waves.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 164: 107571.
4.Lin S., Ashlock J., Sadegh S., Shi F., Wang Y. 2022. “Analytical computation of the dominant dispersion trend of Lamb waves in plate-like structures with an improved dynamic stiffness matrix method.” Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 29: e3103.
5.Lin S., Zhu J., Yi T., Sadegh S., Lv S. 2022. “Setting time measurement of concrete mixtures through monitoring of shear-wave velocity with shear-horizontal waves.” Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE), 34(9): 04022210.
6.Lin S., Yi T., Ashlock J, Gucunski N. 2022. “Forward modeling of Rayleigh surface waves for analytical characterization of dominant dispersion trends.” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 51: 240-255. (IF=4.06, JCR-Q1)
7.Lin S., Ashlock J., Li B. 2022. “Direct estimation of shear-wave velocity profiles from surface wave investigation of geotechnical sites.” Géotechnique, 72(11): 1016-1024 http://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.20.P.258. (IF= 5.554, JCR-Q1)
8.Lin S., Gucunski N., Shams S., Wang Y. 2021. “Seismic site classification from surface wave data to Vs,30 without inversion.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (ASCE), 2021, 147(6): 04021029. (IF=4.012, JCR-Q1)
9.Lin S., Wang Y. 2020. “Crack-depth estimation in concrete elements using ultrasonic shear-horizontal waves.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (ASCE), 2020, 34(4): 04020064. (IF=2.372, JCR-Q3)
10.Lin, S., Shams, S., Choi, H., Azari, H., 2018. “Ultrasonic imaging of multi-layer concrete structures.” NDT & E International, 98, 101-109. (IF=3.739, JCR-Q1)
Standard and regulation
3.Co-editor, Standard of mass data processing for structural health monitoring, T/CCES16-2020
2.Co-editor, Standard for construction and acceptance of structural health monitoring systems, T/CECS765-2020
1.Co-editor, Technical regulation on sensor selection and placement for bridge health monitoring, T/CCES15-2020
Organization
Member, Geophysical Engineering Committee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Member, Mechanics of Pavements Committee (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
Member, American Society For Nondestructive Testing
Publication reviewer for selected journals
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Journal of Infrastructure Systems (American Society of Civil Engineers)
Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier)
International Journal of Pavement Engineering (Taylor & Francis)
Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (Springer)
Case Studies in Construction Materials (Elsevier)
