About Chunan Tang’s work
Based at Northeastern University, Chunan Tang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from April to October 2000.
Biography
Chunan Tang graduated from Central South University in 1982 with a major in mining, received a master’s degree and a doctorate from Northeastern University in 1984 and 1988 respectively, went to Imperial College London in 1991-92 as a postdoctoral researcher. He taught at Northeastern University from 1984 to 2005 before joining Dalian University of Technology in 2006. In 2018, he initiated and established the Deep Earth Engineering Research Center oriented to deep geothermal development.
Tang studies rock failure mechanism and its analysis methods, proposed a new RFPA numerical simulation method for the analysis of the real fracture process of rock-like brittle materials, led the team to develop a high-performance parallel computing analysis system. The spatiotemporal strength analysis function of the RFPA method promotes the combination of numerical analysis methods and microseismic monitoring technology, and realizes a breakthrough in the monitoring, analysis and early warning methods of self-engineering disasters. Based on years of research on rock failure mechanics, he actively carried out interdisciplinary research on cross-border earth sciences.