Civil and infrastructure engineering
Advanced structural assessment
Research methods
Civil and infrastructure engineering
Advanced structural assessment
Research methods
Prof Chun-Qing Li has been a professor of civil engineering since 2006 initially in UK and now at RMIT, Australia. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of UK (FICE) as well as the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust). He is also a chartered professional engineer of these two institutions. Professor Li has served on a number of professional bodies, including codes and standards committees, editorial boards, conference committees and so on. He was the Head of School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering in RMIT University from 2011 to 2016 during which period he changed the culture of the School, doubled the research outputs of the School and increased the ranking of Civil Engineering to within top 100 in the world.
Professor Li’s core research expertise is time-dependent reliability theory and its application to whole life care of corrosion-prone infrastructure. His contribution to time-dependent reliability theory is that he derived a closed-form solution to first passage probability for non-stationary Gaussian stochastic processes in 1993 and more recently (2016) he derived a new solution to first passage probability for nonstationary and non-Gaussian process. Professor Li is one of the first researchers to advance research on corrosion from material perspective to mechanical and structural perspectives since 1998; one of the first to apply first passage probability method to service life prediction of deteriorating structures since 2004; one of the first to propose risk-cost optimisation for developing maintenance strategy for deteriorating structures since 2007; and one of the first to develop models for mixed modes fracture failures of buried pipes since 2013. Professor Li’s research in risk-based service life prediction of civil infrastructure was rated “international leading” (i.e., 4* - the highest rating) in UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Professor Li has published over 300 papers and more than 170 papers are published in high quality international journals, e.g., ASCE journal of engineering mechanics, journal of structural engineering, ACI journals etc.. He has been awarded many research grants in total over $10 m since 2000 as lead or sole CI from both national research councils of UK and Australia where he has worked, e.g., UK’s Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Li is ranked by Elsevier the “Top 2% scientists in the world” (the highest ranking) for both single-year impact in 2020 and for career-long impact based on more than 20 indicators.
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Professor Li’s core research expertise is time-dependent reliability theory and its application to service life prediction of deteriorating materials and structures. His research areas include risk and reliability analysis of engineering works, steel corrosion and its effects on mechanical property and structural behaviour, corrosion of buried metal pipes, mixed mode fracture failure and fracture toughness, methodology of whole life design and assessment of civil infrastructure, stochastic modelling of loading and structural resistance, concrete technology and construction management.
Time-dependent Reliability, Corrosion of Ferrous Metals, Mixed-mode Fracture Failure, Whole Life Care of Infrastructure, Circularity Design for Infrastructure
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 143, no. 8, pp. 04017048
C. Q. Li, Afshin Firouzi & Wei Yang (2017).
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 142, no. 12, pp. 04016103
C. Q. Li, Afshin Firouzi & Wei Yang (2016).
Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 140, no. 12, pp. 04014092
C. Q. Li, S. T. Yang & M. Saafi (2014).
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ARC DP, DP170102211
$320 K
Sole CI
ARC LP, LP150100413
$290 K
Lead CI (+2 CIs)
ARC DP, DP140101547
$280 K
Lead CI (+ 2 CIs)
Proc. International Conference on Civil Engineering Disasters and Prevention, 28 – 29 June, London.
Award date: 2018
Recipients: Fu, G.Y., Yang, W. and Li, C.Q
Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Durability of Building Materials and Components, 12-15 April, Porto
Award date: 2011
Recipients: Mohebbi, H. and Li, C. Q.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.