Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect, Volume 1 (ePub)

Jianchun Li is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of geomechanics at the School of Civil Engineering at Southeast University. She worked in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and in the Laboratoire de mécanique des roches (LMR) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) of Switzerland between 2006 and 2010, and was a research professor at the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 2011 and 2018. Her research interests are rock mechanics and dynamics, shock and impact mechanics, protective engineering, and underground technology. She is an Editor-in-Chief of Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resource, and an Associate Editor of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

Xiao-zhao Li is a professor of geotechnical and underground engineering, and the current director of the State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics & Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He was a professor of geological engineering at Nanjing University, the Director of Institute for Underground Space and Geo-environment at Nanjing University (NJU-IUSG), director of Nanjing Innovation Centre for Shallow Geothermal Development Industry (ICSGI). His research focuses on utilization of underground space, rock fracture and fluid flow in rock mass, aadioactive waste disposal, shallow geothermal development. He is an author of more than 200 publications, and over 50 patents.

Minghe Ju is currently an associate professor in the State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics & Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He received his PhD degree from Monash University Australia in 2020. His research interests are on the interaction between propagating cracks and multiscale geological weak structures in static and dynamic loading conditions. He has published