Prof. Robert Liang's Visit from the University of Akron (USA)

CEO Cheng-Cheng Chen and Prof. Robert Liang.

Robert Liang, professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Akron in the U.S. and the Director of Center for Infrastructure Materials and Rehabilitation, was invited by Taiwan Building Technology Center as a visiting scholar for two months to give a lecturer on the topic of "Design Method for Using Drilled Shafts to Stabilize Slopes" and develop collaborative research proposals with faculty from Taiwan Tech and National Taiwan University.  Prof. Liang is interested in the research of deep foundation (driven piles and drilled shafts), landslides hazard assessment and remediation, and so on, and his experiences had been published in more than 200 articles in international journals and conference proceedings in the areas of geotechnical engineering, mechanics of materials, highway pavement engineering, infrastructure construction and monitoring, geohazard monitoring and assessment, GIS based and internet enabled database, and infrastructure rehabilitation techniques.

Prof. Liang gave a lecture.