Welcome to Dr. Chao Sun's Lab
Dr. Sun’s lab focuses on understanding the complex dynamics of
mechanical and civil infrastructure systems. The research goals are to create resilient sustainable and intelligent
infrastructure systems facing aging issues and tropical cyclone induced extreme environmental effects
(winds, storm surge, and waves), seismic excitations, impacts, ice loadings, etc. Currently, the lab is developing
high-fidelity computational models for hurricane induced winds and waves, and
cost-effective intelligent solutions for monitoring and hazard mitigation of critical infrastructure. The research interests include:
- Coastal hazards(winds, waves, and flooding) modeling and mitigation;
- Fluid structure interaction, offshore energy infrastructure;
- Machine learning-based monitoring and damage diagnosis;
- Structural dynamics, smart sensing and vibration control;
- Analytical, numerical and experimental study on nonlinear vibrations;
- Energy harvesting from ambient vibrations and ocean waves;
- Data acquisition and advanced signal processing.