Dr Guirong (Grace) Yan

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants/Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details TBA

Biography

Guirong (Grace) Yan obtained her PhD from the School of Civil Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (China) in 2006 and served as a post-doctoral research associate at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), Washington University in St. Louis and Purdue University, sequentially. She has published 36 refereed journal and conference proceeding articles and is an ASCE-Dynamics Committee Member in Engineering Mechanics Institute.

Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Infrastructure Engineering
Steel Structures
Advanced Engineering Topic 1 & 2

Dr Yan has research interests primarily in the areas of structural health monitoring and damage detection, sensor technologies and intelligent infrastructures.

• Mobile wireless sensors for structural health monitoring 
• Wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring 
• Laser-imaging techniques for damage detection 
• Structural health monitoring of subsea pipelines 
• Nonlinear system identification and damage detection
• Structural system identification and damage detection using advanced signal processing techniques
• Model updating of structural FEMs

Grants/Current Projects

International Research Initiatives Scheme (UWS)
“Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection for Steel-concrete Composite Structures Using Fibre Optical Sensing”, Jul. 2010～Jul. 2011

Internal Research Funds (UWS)
“Mobile Wireless Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring and Damage”
Aug.t 2010～Aug. 2013

National Natural Science Foundation of China
“Damage Identification Methods of Non-linear Structures and Their Applications on Detecting Damage Caused by Earthquake”, PI, Project No.: 50708029, $31,000, January 2008: 65374; December 2010.

The 41th Post-doc Science Foundation of China
“Damage Detection Methods for Civil Engineering Structures under Strong Earthquake”, PI, Project No.: 01105949, $5,000, September. 2007: 65374; September 2008.

The Post-doc Starting Foundation of China
“Structural Damage Detection Methods and Condition Assessment Theory Based on Strong-motion Records” , PI, $15,000, November 2006: 65374; November 2008.

National Natural Science Foundation of China
“A New Structural Damage Identification Approach Based on Integrating Global and Local Monitoring Information”, Key member, Project No.: 50579008, January 2006: 65374; December 2008.

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Selected Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2010), “Damage Detection for Beam Structures Using an Angle-between-String-and-Horizon Flexibility Matrix,” Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An International Journal, 36(5): 643-667. 

Guirong Yan and Shirley J. Dyke (2010), “Structural Damage Detection Robust Against Time Synchronization Errors”, Smart Materials and Structures. 19 (2010) 065001. 

Guirong Yan, Weijun Guo, Shirley Dyke, Gregory Hackmann and Chenyang Lu (2010), “Experimental Validation of a Multi-level Damage Localization Technique with Distributed Computation”, Smart Structures and Systems, 6(5).

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2009), “Structural Damage Detection Using Residual Forces Based on Wavelet Transform,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, (24): 224-239.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2009), “Damage Detection for Truss or Frame Structures Using an Axial Strain Flexibility,” Smart Structures and Systems, an Int. Journal, 5(3).

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan and Jinping Ou (2008), “Challenges in Applying Structural Damage Detection to Practical Application and Review of Some Solutions (in Chinese),” Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, 40(4): 505-513.

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan, Jinping Ou (2007), “Damage Detection in Ambient Vibration Using Proportional Flexibility Matrix with Incomplete Measured DOFs,” Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 14(2): 186-196.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2007), “Application of Genetic Algorithms to Structural Model Updating (in Chinese),” Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, 39(2): 181-186.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2007), “Review on Structural Damage Detection Based on Vibration Data (in Chinese),” Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 27(3): 95-103.

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan, Jinping Ou, and B.F. Spencer (2006), “Proportional Flexibility Matrix of Structures (in Chinese),” Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, 38(8): 1237-1242.

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan, Jinping Ou, Spencer BF (2005), “Damage Localization in Ambient Vibration by Constructing Proportional Flexibility Matrix,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 284(1-2): 455-466.

Zhongdong Duan, B.F. Spencer, Guirong Yan and Jinping Ou (2004), “An Improved Optimal Elemental Method for Finite Element Model Updating,” Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 3(1): 67-74.

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

G.R. Yan, Z.S. Liu, and Z.D. Duan(2010), “Structural damage detection using dynamic redsidue based on wavelet transform”, International Symposium on Structural Engineering, 18-20 December 2010, Guangzhou, China.

G.R. Yan, Z.S. Liu, and Z.D. Duan(2010), “Dynamic redsidue based on wavelet transform for Damage localization”, Civionics Research Centre Annual Conference at the UWS, 25-26 November 2010.

G.R. Yan, Z.S. Liu, Z.D. Duan (2010), “A novel damage indicator based on wavelet transform for damage localization”, Proceedings in Handling Exceptions in Structural Engineering: Structural Systems, Accidental Scenarios, Design Complexity, July 2010, Rome Italy.

G. Wang, Z.S. Liu, Guirong Yan(2010), “A New Damage Feature based on Wavelet Packet Transform for Damage Detection under Ambient Vibration,” ACMSM21, December 7-10, Melbourne, Australia.

Guirong Yan, Z.S. Liu, A.D. Stefano (2010), “A Novel Nonlinear System Identification Based upon Hilbert Transform,” ACMSM21, December 7-10, Melbourne, Australia.

Guirong Yan, Shirley Dyke (2010), "Structural Damage Localization for Truss Structures Robust against Time Synchronization Errors in a Wireless Sensor Network", Fifth European Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, June 29-July 2, Stockholm, Italy.

Gregory Hackmann, Weijun Guo, Guirong Yan, Chenyang Lu, Shirley Dyke (2010), "Cyber-Physical Codesign of Distributed Structural Health Monitoring With Wireless Sensor Networks", First International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, April 13-14, Stockholm, Sweden.

Guirong Yan and Shirley J. Dyke (2009), “A Multi-level Damage Localization Strategy with Distributed Computation for Effectively Using Energy in WSN,” The 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, September 9-11, 2009, Stanford, CA.

Nestor E. Castaneda, Guirong Yan and Shirley Dyke (2009), "Evaluation of the performance of a distributed structural health monitoring algorithm for wireless sensing," The 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, September 9-11, 2009, Stanford, CA.

Guirong Yan, Shirley J. Dyke, Wei Song, Gregory Hackmann and Chenyang Lu (2009), “Structural Damage Localization with Tolerance to Large Time Synchronization Errors in WSNs,” American Control Conference, June 10-12, 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Gregory Hackmann, Fei Sun, Nestor Castaneda, Guirong Yan, Chenyang Lu, Shirley Dyke (2009), “Towards Robust Decentralized Structural Damage Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks,” NSF CPS Forum, April 13, 2009, San Fransisco, CA, USA.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, Jinping Ou (2005), “Damage Localization Based on the Residual Wavelet Force,” The 2nd Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, November 16-18, 2005, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, Jinping Ou (2005), “An Axial Strain Flexibility for Damage Detection of Truss Structure,” International Workshop on Smart Materials and Structures, October 13-14, 2005, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2005), “Damage Detection Based on Wavelet Transform Function (In Chinese),” 2005 Doctoral Forum of China, August 2005, Nanjing, China.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, Jinping Ou (2005), “Structural Damage Detection by Wavelet Transform and Probabilistic Neural Network,” SPIE’s Smart Structures & Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring & Diagnostics Symposium, March 6-10, 2005, San Diego, CA.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, Jinping Ou (2004), “A Novel Damage Index Using Wavelet Packet Components Energies,” The 3rd International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 19-20, 2004, Nanjing, China.

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan, Jinping Ou (2004), “Structural Damage Localization based on Rotational Flexibility Matrix,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 19-20, 2004, Nanjing, China.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, Jinping Ou (2004), “Structural Damage Detection Based on the Correlation Analysis between the Wavelet Packet Component Energies,” The Eighth International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Exports, August 20-23, 2004, Xi’an, China.

Zhongdong Duan, Guirong Yan, Jinping Ou and B.F. Spencer (2004), “Construction of Proportional Flexibility Matrix at Sensor Locations in Ambient Vibration for Damage Localization,” The Second International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, July 5-7, 2004, Cape Town, South Africa.

Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan and Jinping Ou (2003), “Structural Model Updating Using Genetic Algorithms (in Chinese),” The 8th national vibration theory and application symposium, 2003, Shanghai, China.

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