{"id":15,"date":"2021-04-12T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2021-04-13T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:00:08","slug":"academic-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chao Zhang is currently a PhD student in&nbsp;<strong>Geotechnics &amp; Structures Group<\/strong>, School of Engineering,&nbsp;Newcastle University, supervised by <strong>Prof. Stefano Utili<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Dr David Milledge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&nbsp;completed his&nbsp;<strong>Bachelor of Science degree<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Civil Engineering<\/strong>&nbsp;at&nbsp;Shandong University of Science and Technology, China (2017). The subject of his graduation thesis is the Analysis of the failure mode of Zhaolou Underground Mine and the design of the support scheme. Subsequently, he acquired a&nbsp;<strong>Master of Science Degree<\/strong>&nbsp;in<strong> Geotechnical Engineering<\/strong>&nbsp;under the guidance of<strong>&nbsp;Prof. Qi Wang<\/strong>&nbsp;at Shandong University from 2017 to 2020. The project during his master study is \u201cResearch on linear rock breaking test and optimal layout of TBM disc cutter considering different cutting sequences\u201d. From the study, he mastered the Discrete element method (DEM) and essential knowledge of the mechanical behaviour as well as the evolution of rock failure mode when disc cutters cutting rock. He also used the genetic algorithm to optimize the spacing between two cutters and designed an optimal layout of TBM cutters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chao Zhang is currently a PhD student in&nbsp;Geotechnics &amp; Structures Group, School of Engineering,&nbsp;Newcastle University, supervised by Prof. Stefano Utili&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dr David Milledge. He&nbsp;completed his&nbsp;Bachelor of Science degree&nbsp;in&nbsp;Civil Engineering&nbsp;at&nbsp;Shandong University of Science and Technology, China (2017). The subject of his graduation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.students.ncl.ac.uk\/czhang54\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}