Professor Y. Zhao
Assistant Professor (Geotechnical Engineering)

BEng, Tsinghua University, China
MSc, Stanford University, US
PhD, Stanford University, US

 

 

Office: HW 6-19B
Phone: +852 3917 2655
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: cezhaoy@hku.hk
Homepage: https://yangzhao16.github.io/

 

Research Interests

• Elastoplastic constitutive modeling and computation of geomaterials
• Multiphase and multiphysics continuum mechanics and simulation in porous media
• Rock fracture mechanics and numerical modeling

 

10 Selected Representative Publications

• Zhao, Y., Nguyen, A.T., Chen, H., Espinosa, H. and Bažant, Z.P. (2026) Crack-Parallel Stress Effects in Soft Material Fracture: Insights From Gap Tests and the Microplane Modeling Perspective. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 93(2), 021001.
• Zhao, Y., Nguyen, A.T., Nguyen, H.T. and Bažant, Z.P. (2025) Osmotic control of the spacing of parallel shear cracks in shale growing subcritically in geologic past. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106428.
• Yuan, W., Zhao, Y. and Zhang, B. (2025) A poromechanical framework for hydraulic fracturing processes in transversely isotropic rocks. Acta Geotechnica, 20(5), 2049-2073.
• Zhao, Y., Wang, R. and Zhang, J.M. (2025) An assumed enhanced strain finite element framework for tensile fracturing processes with dual-mechanism failure in transversely isotropic rocks. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 17(3), 1474-1488.
• Yuan, W., Zhao, Y. and Zhang, B. (2024) A Stress‐Driven Double‐Phase–Field Framework for Tensile Fracturing Processes in Transversely Isotropic Rocks. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 48(17), 4188-4205.
• Zhao, Y., Wang, R. and Zhang, J.M. (2022) A dual-mechanism tensile failure criterion for transversely isotropic rocks. Acta Geotechnica, 17(11), 5187-5200.
• Zhao, Y. and Borja, R.I. (2022) A double-yield-surface plasticity theory for transversely isotropic rocks. Acta Geotechnica, 17(11), 5201-5221.
• Zhao, Y. and Borja, R.I. (2021) Anisotropic elastoplastic response of double-porosity media. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 380, 113797.
• Zhao, Y. and Borja, R.I. (2020) A continuum framework for coupled solid deformation–fluid flow through anisotropic elastoplastic porous media. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 369, 113225.
• Zhao, Y., Semnani, S.J., Yin, Q. and Borja, R. I. (2018) On the strength of transversely isotropic rocks. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 42(16), 1917-1934.

 

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