Building Materials and Engineering (PhD in Engineering)

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.

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.

The discipline has Liaoning Province Key Laboratory of Building Materials Mechanics and five Civil Engineering Professional Laboratories, one Mechanics Experiment and Simulation Analysis Center, The teaching resources of scientific research equipment and ANSYS, ABAQUS, MIDAS and other series of numerical simulation software with a total value exceeding 15,000,000,RMB. It provides a good guarantee for this discipline to carry out high-level research. There are 25 full-time faculty members in the discipline, including 6 professors and 8 associate professors. All of them have doctoral degrees. There are 5 people of Liaoning Province Talent project, and have formed a combination of the old ,the middle-aged and the young, and a rational and innovative academic research team. In the past five years, the discipline has successively undertaken 8 national fund projects, 16 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, 3 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards, 5 monographs, and published more than 80 high-level academic papers, and applied for 12 invention patents.