Dr. Guodong Ma
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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guodong.ma@rmit.edu.au
About
Dr Guodong Ma received his PhD from Monash University (September 2019 – January 2024), where his research focused on unsaturated soil mechanics, slope failure, and fully coupled seepage–deformation analysis. Before joining RMIT University as a Research Assistant collaborating with Professor Annan Zhou, he worked as a Research Fellow at Monash University from January 2024 to March 2025. His work employs the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) mesh-free method to simulate complex hydro-mechanical interactions in geomaterials, with a particular emphasis on internal erosion and water leakage–induced slope failures. Dr Ma’s research aims to advance the understanding and numerical modelling of geotechnical hazards under coupled hydraulic and mechanical conditions. He is also dedicated to developing new SPH algorithms to extend its application in geotechnical engineering and enhance predictive modelling capabilities.
Supervisor projects
- Research on the Numerical Algorithm of Limit Analysis Based on the Non-Saturated Soil Constitutive Model and Engineering Applications
- 31 Oct 2025
Research interests
Unsaturated soils; Slope failure; Numerical modelling; Mesh free Method - SPH; Constitutive modelling; Internal erosion;
