Building Materials and Engineering (PhD in Engineering)
1. Field Profile （Code：0805）
With the development of China’s basic construction, the demand for various new materials, new structures, and new technologies continues to emerge. Relying on the first class doctoral discipline in materials science and engineering of our university, we have independently added the second class doctoral discipline in building materials and engineering in 2016. The discipline focuses on the preparation and application of new types of building materials, the environmental effects of building materials, the reliability and mechanical behavior of materials, and the cross-disciplinary research of building materials and structural engineering, involving the knowledge and theory of construction materials, materials science, material performance experiments. composite material mechanics, fracture and damage mechanics, engineering structure, and material electronic structure. The use of advanced experimental techniques, numerical simulation techniques and other means to study the mechanical behavior of building materials under different working conditions or environment.
2. Faculty and Supervisors Team
The discipline currently has over 50 faculty members, including 13 professors, 16 associate professors, 7 doctoral supervisors, and 35 master’s supervisors. Among them, 9 are recipients of the Liaoning Provincial “Hundred-Thousand-Talent Project.” Additionally, there are 8 visiting professors from both domestic and international institutions and 25 part-time faculty members from industry. The discipline maintains extensive cooperation and exchanges with universities and research institutions in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Japan, establishing distinctive research strengths and advantages.
3. Research Orientation
There are five research teams within the discipline focusing on the following areas: geotechnical engineering and underground structure stability; development and application of green building materials; architectural structural design and safety monitoring; road and bridge structural analysis and reinforcement; renewable energy utilization and building environment control; and BIM technology and applications. Over the past five years, the discipline has secured more than 30 vertical research grants, including those from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education’s Returned Overseas Scholars Fund, and the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Program. It has received 5 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards, published 8 academic monographs and over 260 academic papers, and obtained more than 30 authorized patents.
4. Training Objectives
The discipline aims at cultivating senior professionals in the fields of building materials and engineering with good overall quality and strong pioneering and innovative capabilities. Through the study and cultivation of Ph.D. students, the students have a solid and extensive theoretical basis and systematic professional knowledge and skills. They understand the current development of the discipline at home and abroad, and master the new developments and trends in the research direction. They can master a foreign language proficiently, be able to proficiently read professional foreign language books and technical literature, write high-level papers in foreign languages, be proficient in advanced experimental methods and techniques, have good scientific literacy and the ability to independently engage in scientific research, and with strong innovation ability, strong organization and coordination ability and good cooperation and dedication, have an international perspective and has the ability of academic exchange at home and abroad.
5. Core Courses
Theories and Methods of Materials Design, Research Topics and Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Fracture and Damage of Materials, New Technological Advances in Building Materials and Engineering, Theory and Process Analysis of Material Failure, Novel Functional Materials, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Kinetic Fundamentals of Metastable Material Formation, New Energy Materials, Electrochemical Theory and Applications, and Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Control.
