Dr. Y. (Yangming) Gao

Profile

Yangming joined Delft University of Technology in April 2021 as a Marie S. Curie Research Fellow in the section of Pavement Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences. Prior to that, he was a visiting scholar in the

Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) at University of Nottingham and a postdoc researcher in the Aston Institute of Materials Research (AIMR) at Aston University, UK. Yangming received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Aston University in March 2020. He was awarded BEng and MEng degrees from Hefei University of Technology, China.

Research

Yangming’s research is focused on understanding, predicting and optimising the mechanical response of infrastructure materials. He combines theoretical development, experimental characterisation and computational modelling to develop mechanistic models that can reliably capture material deformation, damage and fracture. Current research topics include the molecular simulations, micromechanics, continuum damage mechanics, multiscale mechanistic modelling, interfacial adhesion, fatigue damage and healing in pavement materials.