Dr. Yilin Gui
Details
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: City Campus Australia
yilin.gui@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0003-3439-3888
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
- Collaborative projects
About
Dr Yilin Gui is an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering. Before he joined RMIT University, he was Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at QUT and Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in Newcastle Univeresity, UK. He obtained his PhD from UNSW Sydney. He is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy. His research interests are focused on rock and soil mechanics, computational and constitutive modelling of geomaterials and Geoenvironmental Engineering and other related areas in Geotechnical Engineering and Mining Engineering.
Research fields
- 400502 Civil geotechnical engineering
- 401902 Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
- 400505 Construction materials
- 370401 Computational modelling and simulation in earth sciences
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 13 Climate Action
- 4 Quality Education
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Teaching interests
Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering Materials, Engineering Geology
Research interests
1. Geomechanics: computational geomechanics; constitutive modelling of geomaterials, unsaturated soil mechanics, environmental/energy geomechanics; rock mechanics and rock dynamics;
2. Renewable energy: shale gas extraction; carbon sequestration in geological formation; geothermal utilisation; nuclear waste geological storage
3. Material Engineering: geomaterial characterisation; microscopic modelling of material failure; desiccation behaviour of porous media; SEM and X-Ray study in engineering materials
4. Numerical methods: hybrid continuum-discrete element method; finite difference method; discrete element method; finite element method
