缅北禁地

Dr Haoyu Huang is a Lecturer in Structural Engineering and Exchange Coordinator in Civil Engineering in the School of Engineering at 缅北禁地. He is specialised in timber structures, vibration control and smart materials. He aims to promote use of renewable materials to deliver a sustainable future via his research. Haoyu is also the Associate Editor of journal Proceedings of the ICE – Engineering History and Heritage.

Dr Haoyu Huang was awarded his PhD from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at University of Bath in 2017 and his BEng from the Beijing University of Technology in 2013. Before being appointed as a lecturer at 缅北禁地, Dr Huang worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Transportation Engineering at Beijing University of Technology between 2017 and 2022. 

Internal Services:

1) School Exchange Coordinator

2) PARTNERS Academic Summer School 'Floor Vibration' Session Organisor

3) Foundation Stage/Project Tutor (for Civil Engineering students)

4) Outreach/Open day participations

External Services:

1) Associate Editor of journal Proceedings of the ICE – Engineering History and Heritage

2) Guest editor for Special Issue: ‘Performance Analysis of Timber Composite Structures’ in journal Buildings. 

3) Editorial board member for journal Sustainable Structures.

4) Reviewers for 10+ journals.

Certificate

I have achieved the status of Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in summer of 2023.

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Important! Looking for prospective PGR students:

I am now looking for PhD/Mphil students in Structural Engineering. Please feel free to contact me via email with CV, cover letter and transcripts.

Dr Huang is currently investigating the following themes: (1) sustainable bio-based material constructions (such as using timber and bamboo); (2) human-induced structural vibration; (3) innovative use of smart materials and structures (such as using shape memory alloys); (4) structural vibration control (such as tuned mass dampers) and (5) heritage protection and reinforcement. His research method involves combined analytical and experimental approaches. His research activities are also featured by multi-disciplinary collaborations, this can be evidenced by many of his publications. His funding sources include: , National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Foundation of Key Laboratory of Urban and Engineering Safety and Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Education of China, Beijing University of Technology and European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action, etc.

Current PhD students supervision

PGR 1. Ms Yaxuan Yi, 2024-current. PhD student. Her PhD project is ‘End-of-life carbon analysis and forecasting of timber structures’. (First supervisor: Haoyu Huang; Second supervisor: Sean Wilkinson)

PGR 2. Ms Zhenhong Zhao, 2024-current. PhD student. Her PhD project is ‘Carbon emission optimisation of timber structures considering the supply chain’. (First supervisor: Haoyu Huang; Second supervisor: Mohamad Kassem)

PGR 3. Mr Yifei Li, 2024-current. PhD student. His PhD project is ‘Cost-effective dampers for timber floor vibration reduction’. (First supervisor: Haoyu Huang; Second supervisor: Sean Wilkinson)

PGR 4. Ms Ruijia Wu, 2024-current. Visiting PhD student from Zhejiang University. Her project at 缅北禁地: 'Timber Structural Design using LLM'.

Research projects

Research projects as PI:

2025-now: “Floor Vibration-Based Fall Detection System Using AI and Accelerometers”. PI. Funder: EPSRC IAA Award.

2023-now: “Reduction of floor thickness and construction costs through the application of a damper”. PI. Funder: . 

2020-23. “Study on the seismic-reduction mechanism of the multi-storey cross laminated timber structure based on the semi-active TMD system”. PI. Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2019-21. “Study of the seismic control of high-rise building structures using shape memory alloy-based MTMD system”. PI. Funder: Beijing Municipal Education Commission Research.

2020-21. “Floor vibration control based on SMA-MTMD system”. PI. Funder: Beijing University of Technology International Collaboration Seed Fundation.

2019-21. “Study of the SMA-based TMD system for reducing the human-induced vibration on the floor system” PI. Funder: Beijing University of Technology Key Laboratory of Urban and Engineering Safety and Disaster Reduction, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Engineering Aseismic and Structural Diagnosis.

2018-19. “Vibration reduction of a CLT floor based on a shape memory alloy TMD”. PI. Funder: Beijing University of Technology Foundation for Basic Research.

2015. “Measuring wind-induced vibration of tall timber buildings and towers”. STSM (Short Term Scientific Mission) PI. Funder: COST Action FP1402: Basis of structural timber design - from research to standards.

Research projects as Co-I:

2020-23. “Non-stacking Particle Damper and Its Analysis Theory and Design Method for Controlled Structures”. Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2020-23. “Control and testing technology of seismic simulation shaking table based on deep learning”. Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2019-21. “Mechanism and influence of expansion joints of urban viaduct”. Funder: Beijing Municipal Education Commission Research.

2019-21. “Synergistic mechanism and calculation method of cross-laminated timber-steel frame composite wall”. Funder: Beijing Municipal Education Commission Research.

Academic Engagement

2024-now: Associate Editor of journal Proceedings of the ICE – Engineering History and Heritage

2022-now: Editorial board member for journal Sustainable Structures.

2022 – Guest editor for Special Issue "Sustainable Development of Timber Buildings" in journal Sustainability.

Served as the reviewer for journals: Engineering Structures, Advances in Structural Engineering, Advances in Civil Engineering, Buildings, Sustainable Structures, Advances in Material Science and Engineering and Plos One.

2021-now: Member of Wood Technical Forum. I provided technical and academic supports to Wood Technical Forum, which is an organisation for engineers and academics in Timber Engineering to exchange ideas and knowledge and collaborate.

2021 – Principle editor of “Chapter 7 Serviceability Design” in “Standard of Timer-Concrete Composite Structures”. Committee of Timber & Complex Materials Structures, China Association For Engineering Construction Standardization.

2024 – External PhD examiner, “Hybrid Timber and Steel Structural System”, Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Australia.

2019 – External PhD examiner, “Dynamic behaviour of long-span timber ribbed-deck floors” by Bella Basaglia, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (invited by Dr Rijun Shrestha).

Impact

(1) Timber floor vibration:

- Performance of timber floor under human-induced vibration

I am leading a group of researchers in the “Standard of Timer-Concrete Composite Structures” committee to develop the serviceability design approach of timber-concrete floor system. The approach will be edited into the Standard of Timer-Concrete Composite Structures.

- Development of multiple tuned mass damper system for timber floor

I am group member in an industrial collaboration group Wood Technical Forum led by Dr Wen-Shao Chang at University of Lincoln (group members include Ramboll, Heyne Tillett Steel, Klöckner & Co, Hybrid Structures, ElliottWood, Whitbywood, Integral-engineering, Atelierone, Lendlease, etc.) addressing timber floor vibration problems and developing multiple tuned mass damper system for timber floor.

(2) Wind-induced vibration of tall timber structures:

- I was sponsored by ARUP and won a Short Term Scientific Mission of COST Action FP1402 to measure tall timber structure vibration across Europe. The measurement results are important to determine the dynamic properties and damping capacity of the tall timber structures, and can facilitate the industry for designing.

- I was invited to be a guest speaker in ARUP Berlin to present this research contribution. I was also invited to give a presentation in the COST Action FP1402 meeting in Pamplona, Spain.

- I was invited to measure and analyse the wind-induced vibration of a multi-storey timber structure in Stockholm by Martinsons, Bygdsiljum, Sweden.

(3) Tuned Mass Damper:

- Based on my research on tuned mass damper and its vibration control, I was invited to take part in a standard editing called “General technical requirements for design and construction of conventional island of 1500MW PWR nuclear power plant”.

Invited Seminars/Lectures

2024. Keynote speech on ‘Seismic Control and Reduction of CLT Structures’ at the 2nd International Symposium on Bamboo and Timber Structures in Nanjing, China.

2024. ‘’Bio-based construction and its vibration control’’. Qingdao University of Technology, China.

2023. “Vibration control of timber floors”. Nanjing Tech University, China.

2023. “Progress, challenge and opportunities of developing timber floors”. China Forestry Science Study Institute, China.

2023. “Recent research in timber floor vibrations”. Beijing Forestry University, China.

2019. “Development of Tuned Mass Damper using shape memory alloy”. Department of Material, Northern China University of Technology, China. 

2015. “Measuring wind-induced vibration of tall timber buildings and towers in Germany”. ARUP, Berlin, Germany/COST Action FP1402 meeting, Pamplona, Spain.

2014. “Dynamic characterisation of shape memory alloy”. Department of Material, Northern China University of Technology, China.

Citation Statistics

Currently, my h-index is 14, i10-index is 15, as per Google Scholar.

My publications can be seen in:

CEG3301 Design of Building System (Module Leader)

SFY0022 Mechanics

CEG3004 Sustainable Engineering Systems Design Project (Structures discipline leader)

CEG3099 Individual Project (BEng)

CEG8099 Investigate Research Project (MEng)

SFY0009 Foundation Year Project

• Articles

  • Yang H, Wu Y, Shi B, Tao H, Huang H. . Buildings 2025, 15(12), 2074.
  • Faircloth A, Karampour H, Hamm P, Müller T, Pavic A, Reynolds P, Gilbert BP, Schoenwald S, Huang H, Gronquist P, Ruf J, Brancheriau L, Kumar C. Global state of knowledge on human-induced sound and vibration events: defining future research directions for mass timber products. Journal of Wood Science 2025, 71, 1-23.
  • Yang H, Lu X, Sun H, Pan Y, Shi B, Li Y, Huang H. . Buildings 2025, 15(10), 1642.
  • Zhang J, Huang H, Wang BJ. . Engineering Structures 2024, 316(1), 118562.
  • Yu J, Chang W-S, Zhang R, Dong Y, Huang H, Wang T-H. . Energy and Buildings 2024, 324, 114947.
  • Yan L, Huang H, Li Y. . Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Dynamics 2024, 44, 81-88.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage 2024, 177(1), 5-15.
  • Jiang Z-Q, Liu L-T, Chang W-S, Wang W, Wang Y-H, Huang H. . Structures 2024, 67, 106980.
  • Yan L, Li Y, Chang W-S, Huang H. . Structures 2023, 57, 105093.
  • Zhang C, Huang H, Li X, Xue S, Chang W, Sun G. . Forests 2023, 14(2), 409.
  • Zhang J, Zhang C, Li Y, Chang W-S, Huang H. . Engineering Structures 2023, 296, 116941.
  • Huang H, Zhang J, Uttley J, Chang WS, Wang BJ. . Advances in Civil Engineering 2022, 2022, 1-12.
  • Huang H, Wang C, Du X. . Journal of Nanjing Tech University 2022, 44(3), 237-248.
  • Jiang H, Liu W, Huang H, Wang Y. . Sustainable Structures 2022, 2(2), 000019.
  • Zhu YZ, Liu Y, Huang H, Guo YY, Yin SY, Hu FW. . Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2021, 2021, 5599751.
  • Yin S, Wang H, Li A, Huang H, Zhang J, Liu L, Zhu Y. . Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2021, 2021, 6466344.
  • Huang H, Wang C, Chang W-S. . Structural Control and Health Monitoring 2021, 28(2), e2656.
  • Wang C, Chang W-S, Yan W, Huang H. . Structures 2021, 29, 65-78.
  • Huang H, Lin X, Zhang J, Wu Z, Wang C, Wang BJ. . Structures 2021, 32, 1481-1491.
  • Zhu YZ, Zhao TY, Huang H, Peng H, Hu FW, Yin SY. . Materials Research Express 2021, 8(4), 046502.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . Structures 2020, 25, 180-189.
  • Huang H, Gao Y, Chang W-S. . Engineering Structures 2020, 204, 110016.
  • Huang H, Zhu Y-Z, Chang W-S. . Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2020, 2020, 8024803.
  • Huang H, Mosalam KM, Chang W-S. . Engineering Structures 2020, 223, 111171.
  • Zhu YZ, Peng H, Huang H, Li JC. . Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2020, 2020, 1056274.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . Engineering Structures 2018, 167, 143-150.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . Structural Control and Health Monitoring 2017, 24(10), e1980.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S, Mosalam KM. . Structural Control and Health Monitoring 2017, 24(2), e1858.
  • Solarino F, Giresini L, Chang W-S, Huang H. . Buildings 2017, 7(4), 116.
  • Guo H, Liu Y, Meng Y, Huang H, Sun C, Shao Y. . Sustainability 2017, 9(8), 1426.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . In: 14th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025 (WCTE 2025). 2025, Brisbane, Australia: Curran Associates, Inc.
  • Huang H, Wu Y, Yang H. . In: 1st International Conference on Engineering Structures. 2024, Guangzhou, China.
  • Huang H, Deng Z. . In: 20th Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering. 2024, Edinburgh: WSE.
  • Xie X, Huang HY. . In: 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology. 2023, Leiden, Holland: ISIE.
  • Huang H, Wang C, Lin X, Chang W-S. . In: Life-Cycle Civil Engineering: Innovation, Theory and Practice - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2020. 2020, Shanghai, China: CRC Press/Balkema.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . In: WCTE 2018 - World Conference on Timber Engineering. 2018, Seoul, South Korea: World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE).
  • Feldmann A, Huang H, Chang W-S, Harris R, Dietsch P, Grafe M, Hein C. . In: WCTE 2016 - World Conference on Timber Engineering. 2016, Vienna: Vienna University of Technology.
  • Huang H, Chang W-S. . In: WCTE 2016 - World Conference on Timber Engineering. 2016, Vienna Austria: Vienna University of Technology.
  • Huang H, Xie W, Chang W-S. . In: ASM International - International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, SMST 2015. 2015, Chipping Norton: ASM International.

• Review

  • Huang H, Chang W. . Zhendong yu Chongji/Journal of Vibration and Shock 2019, 38(18), 154-164.