Personal Information
Name: Junbiao Yan
Date of Birth: January 1997
Degree: Ph.D.
Contact Information:
Phone: +86 18370810703
Email:yanjunbiao21@mails.ucas.ac.cn
Address: Room 1312, Science and Technology Innovation Building, Jianghan University, No. 8 Sanjiaohu Road, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Education and Professional Experience
Mar. 2025 – Present
Jianghan University, State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting
Key Researcher
Aug. 2024 – Feb. 2025
Hubei Center of Geological Disaster Control
Engineer
Sep. 2021 – Jun. 2024
Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2021
China University of Geosciences
M.Eng. in Geological Engineering
Sep. 2014 – Jul. 2018
Jiangxi University of Science and Technology
B.Eng. in Geological Engineering
Research Interests
Slope Failure Mechanics
Geotechnical Dynamics
Engineering Blasting
Major Research Projects
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Scientists Fund (Category C),Grant No. 42602376,Damage and disaster-causing mechanism of weak interlayer in bedding slope under combined effect of cyclic blasting disturbance and rainfall-induced wetting, Jan. 2027 – Dec. 2029, Principal Investigator.
2. Doctoral Research Startup Fund of Hubei (Wuhan) Institute of Explosion Science and Blasting Technology, Grant No. PBSKL-2025-QD-06, Blasting-induced damage and failure mechanisms of bedding rock slopes and precision control of blasting effects, Sep. 2025 – Aug. 2028, Principal Investigator.
3. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant No. 2019YFC1509901, Hydraulically induced instability characteristics and safety assessment methods for expansive soil landslides and engineered slopes, Jan. 2020 – Dec. 2023, Participant.
4. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 42077268, Research on the braking mechanism of reservoir landslide atsetting-out stage and identification criterion, Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2024, Participant.
Representative Research Publications
Junbiao Yan, Lingwei Kong, Tianguo Li*, Zhenhua Zhou, Wenhao Jiang. Effect of over-consolidation on damage softening behavior of expansive soil: an experimental and modeling study. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2026; 85: 202.
Junbiao Yan, Lingwei Kong*, Cheng Chen, Mingwei Guo. A vector sum analysis method for stability evolution of expansive soil slope considering shear zone damage softening. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2024; 16(9): 3746-3759.
Junbiao Yan, Lingwei Kong*, Juntao Wang. Evolution law of small strain shear modulus of expansive soil: from a damage perspective. Engineering Geology 2023; 315: 107017.(ESI Highly Cited Papers)
Junbiao Yan, Lingwei Kong*, Chunfa Xiong, Guofang Xu. Damage analysis of shear mechanical behavior of pile–structural soil interface considering shear rate effect. Acta Geotechnica 2023; 18: 5369–5383.
Junbiao Yan, Tianguo Li*, Lingwei Kong, Zhenhua Zhou, Juntao Wang. Nonlinear decay behavior of small strain dynamic shear modulus of lime-treated expansive soil. Journal of Soils and Sediments 2023; 23: 3310–3325.
Junbiao Yan, Zongxing Zou*, Rui Mu, Xinli Hu, Jincheng Zhang, Wen Zhang, Aijun Su, Jinge Wang, Tao Luo. Evaluating the stability of Outang landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir area considering the mechanical behavior with large deformation of the slip zone. Natural Hazards 2022; 112(3): 2523-2547. (ESI Highly Cited Papers)
Junbiao Yan, Zongxing Zou*, Shaowen Guo, Qihua Zhang, Xinli Hu, Tao Luo. Mechanical behavior and damage constitutive model of granodiorite in a deep buried tunnel. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2022; 81(3): 118.
Zongxing Zou, Junbiao Yan*, Huiming Tang, Shun Wang, Chengren Xiong, Xinli Hu. A shear constitutive model for describing the full process of deformation and failure of slip zone soil. Engineering Geology 2020; 276: 105766.
Tianguo Li, Lingwei Kong, Aiguo Guo, Junbiao Yan*. The swelling pressure evolution characterization of strong expansive soil considering the influence of reserved expansion deformation. Journal of Mountain Science 2024; 21: 252-270.
Junbiao Yan,Lingwei Kong, Tianguo Li, Zhenhua Zhou. Effects of variable shear rate on residual strength of expansive soils andits engineering enlightenment. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering,2024,46 (07): 1445-1452.
Academic and Professional Service
Serves as a Young Editorial Board Member of Journal of Geomechanics and Measurements (a High-Starting-Point New Journal supported by the Excellence Action Plan for China’s STM Journals).
Also serves as a peer reviewer for SCI-indexed journals, including Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, International Journal of Geomechanics, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Natural Hazards, Journal of Mountain Science, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Scientific Reports, Advances in Civil Engineering, Results in Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Geofluids, Frontiers in Earth Science, Shock and Vibration, PLOS ONE, and MATERIA, as well as the EI-indexed journal Rock and Soil Mechanics.
Personal Academic Website
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4648-9748
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Junbiao-Yan
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/JCN-6246-2023
