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  1. Explicit joint within a continuous–discontinuous framework and its application to blasting in jointed rock masses

    Article • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, October 2026, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  2. Discontinuity Layout Optimization for Lower-Bound Limit Analysis: A Statically Admissible Framework for Plane Plasticity

    Article • August 2026, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  3. A Physics‐Informed Deep Learning Framework for Multi‐Field Hydro‐Mechanical Consolidation Analysis

    Article • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, February 2026, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  4. A Multiscale Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework forConstitutive Parameter Inversion and Hashin-Based Failure Assessment of Unidirectional Composites

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  5. Cracking elements with sequential linear analysis: an efficient event-driven numerical framework for quasi-brittle fracture

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  6. Penetration and resistance characteristics of lunar regolith simulant drilling using a coupled MPM–CDEM approach

    Article • Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, November 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  7. A novel heterogeneous CPU/GPGPU-accelerated 3D CDEM and its application to modeling deep roadway excavation

    Article • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, August 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  8. A simple and efficient three-dimensional spring element model for pore seepage problems

    Article • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, July 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  9. The role of water during the middle or later periods of Class F fly ash-based geopolymerization

    Article • Cement and Concrete Composites, July 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  10. Insights into the influence of 3D spiral perforation parameters on initiation pressure and fracture morphology: A comprehensive numerical study based on CDEM

    Article • Engineering Fracture Mechanics, June 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  11. Heat and mass transfer in heated concrete: evaluation and validation of five numerical models

    Article • Matériaux et Constructions, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Francesco Pesavento, Yiming Zhang

  12. A simple hybrid linear and nonlinear interpolation finite element for the adaptive Cracking Elements Method

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, February 2025, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  13. Macro–Micro Properties of Remodeled Waste Slurry Under Freeze–Thaw Cycles

    Article • Materials, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  14. An interface constitutive model of plastic tensile–compressive damage under impact loading based on continuous–discontinuous framework

    Article • Computers and Geotechnics, September 2024, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  15. 3D crack propagation in concrete induced by soundless cracking demolition agents

    Article • Engineering Fracture Mechanics, August 2024, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  16. Study on the influence of perforation parameters on hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation based on CDEM

    Article • Computers and Geotechnics, March 2024, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  17. Predicting the Posture of High-Rise Building Machines Based on Multivariate Time Series Neural Network Models

    Article • Sensors, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  18. A new cube movement test for verification of simulations of contact processes of blocks of different size in geological hazards

    Article • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, January 2024, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  19. Prediction of the Posture of High-Rise Building Machine Based on Multivariate Time Series Neural Network Models

    Article • January 2024, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  20. Physical informed neural network for thermo-hydral analysis of fire-loaded concrete

    Article • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, January 2024, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  21. Damage Analysis of 3D Masonry Structures under Explosion Shock Waves Based on the CDEM

    Article • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, January 2024, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  22. Simulation of grout diffusion in fractured rock mass by equivalent seepage lattice elements

    Article • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, December 2023, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  23. Continuous-discontinuous element method for three-dimensional thermal cracking of rocks

    Article • Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, November 2023, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  24. Wind Field Digital Twins Sandbox System for Transmission Towers

    Article • Sensors, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  25. Numerical Analysis of Directional Rock Blasting with Continuous-Discontinuous Element Method

    Article • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yiming Zhang

  26. Image Representations of Numerical Simulations for Training Neural Networks

    Article • Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, January 2023, Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press)

    Yiming Zhang

  27. A Novel Continuous-Discontinuous Multi-Field Numerical Model for Rock Blasting

    Article • Applied Sciences, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  28. Featured Cover

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, October 2022, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  29. Virtual displacement based discontinuity layout optimization

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, August 2022, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  30. Numerical Analysis on Two-Layer Bundle-Hole Cut Blasting with Continuous–Discontinuous Elements

    Article • Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yiming Zhang

  31. Analysis of the Coal Fluidization Mining Process with the Continuous-Discontinuous Coupled Particle-Block Method

    Article • Geofluids, April 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Yiming Zhang

  32. Predicting the Pore-Pressure and Temperature of Fire-Loaded Concrete by a Hybrid Neural Network

    Article • International Journal of Computational Methods, March 2022, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Yiming Zhang

  33. Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-phase field modeling for fire-induced spalling in concrete

    Article • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, February 2022, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  34. Cracking elements method with a dissipation-based arc-length approach

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, November 2021, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  35. A micropolar peridynamic model with non-uniform horizon for static damage of solids considering different nonlocal enhancements

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, June 2021, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  36. Behavior of a Structured Piled Beam–Slab Foundation for a Wind Turbine under Multidirectional Loads in Sand

    Article • International Journal of Geomechanics, March 2021, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Yiming Zhang

  37. Applying the Cracking Elements Method for Analyzing the Damaging Processes of Structures with Fissures

    Article • Applied Sciences, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  38. Cracking elements method with 6-node triangular element

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, September 2020, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  39. Applying the Cracking Elements Method for Analyzing the Damaging Processes of Structures with Fissures

    Article • August 2020, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  40. On the crack opening and energy dissipation in a continuum based disconnected crack model

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, March 2020, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  41. Evaluation of Effectiveness of CO2 Sequestration Using Portland Cement in Geological Reservoir Based on Unified Pipe-network Method

    Article • Energies, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  42. Global cracking elements: a novel tool for Galerkin‐based approaches simulating quasi‐brittle fracture

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, January 2020, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  43. Evaluation of effectiveness of CO2 sequestration in geological reservoir based on Unified Pipe-network Method

    Article • December 2019, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  44. Stability analysis of a fire‐loaded shallow tunnel by means of a thermo‐hydro‐chemo‐mechanical model and discontinuity layout optimization

    Article • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, August 2019, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  45. Cracking elements method for dynamic brittle fracture

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, March 2019, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  46. Simulating the Filtration Effects of Cement-Grout in Fractured Porous Media with the 3D Unified Pipe-Network Method

    Article • Processes, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  47. Corrigendum to “Fast assessing spalling risk of tunnel linings under RABT fire: From a coupled Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical model towards an estimation method” [Eng. Struct. 142 (2017) 1–19]

    Article • Engineering Structures, September 2018, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  48. Transient Analysis of Grout Penetration With Time-Dependent Viscosity Inside 3D Fractured Rock Mass by Unified Pipe-Network Method

    Article • Water, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Yiming Zhang

  49. Cracking elements: A self-propagating Strong Discontinuity embedded Approach for quasi-brittle fracture

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, May 2018, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  50. Applying a new method for analyze the stability of shallow tunnel built with NATM

    Article • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, April 2018, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  51. A softening-healing law for self-healing quasi-brittle materials: Analyzing with strong discontinuity embedded approach

    Article • Engineering Fracture Mechanics, April 2018, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  52. Fast assessing spalling risk of tunnel linings under RABT fire: From a coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical model towards an estimation method

    Article • Engineering Structures, July 2017, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  53. Multi-slicing strategy for the three-dimensional discontinuity layout optimization (3D DLO)

    Article • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, August 2016, Wiley

    Yiming Zhang

  54. Strong discontinuity embedded approach with standard SOS formulation: Element formulation, energy-based crack-tracking strategy, and validations

    Article • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, April 2015, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  55. Model-based risk assessment of concrete spalling in tunnel linings under fire loading

    Article • Engineering Structures, October 2014, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  56. A Coupled Thermo-Hygro-Chemo-Mechanical Model for the Simulation of Spalling of Concrete Subjected to Fire Loading

    Article • June 2013, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Yiming Zhang

  57. Micromechanics-based multifield framework for early-age concrete

    Article • Engineering Structures, February 2013, Elsevier

    Yiming Zhang

  58. A coupled thermo-hygro-chemo-mechanical model for the simulation of spalling of concrete subjected to fire loading

    Article • MATEC Web of Conferences, January 2013, EDP Sciences

    Yiming Zhang

  59. Assessing the structural safety of underground frame structures subjected to fire loading

    Article • IABSE Symposium Report, January 2013, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

    Yiming Zhang

  60. Coupled Multi-Physical Fields Analysis of Early Age Concrete

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yiming Zhang