Research

Development of Core Technologies for Climate Resilience Assessment of Unsaturated Colluvium Slopes

Funded by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Targeting rainfall-driven unsaturated colluvium slopes, this project develops three core technologies — advanced testing, numerical simulation, and field monitoring — to establish a methodological foundation for lifecycle performance tracking of slopes.

Slopes age like people — the same rainfall that was harmless ten years ago may not be today. Our job is to track that change.

Design assumes soil parameters remain constant, but in reality: short-term rainfall infiltration reduces strength, and long-term wetting-drying cycles degrade microstructure.

Landslide Dam Breach Risk Management and Watershed Resilience Governance

Public Construction Commission, Executive Yuan — Research and Development Programme for Academic Participation in Post-disaster Recovery of the Mataian River Landslide Dam, Hualien

Supporting post-disaster recovery after the Mataian River landslide-dam breach in Hualien, this project focuses on breach risk management and watershed-scale resilience governance, integrating field investigation, laboratory characterisation of sediment materials, and numerical analysis to build a technical basis from hazard risk assessment to engineering countermeasures.

Effect of Test Configuration on Pore Pressure Measurement in Dynamic Soil Testing

Using novel measurement tools to systematically quantify biases in conventional measurement methods, and to clarify how much of the variation between different tests comes from measurement effects versus actual differences in soil behaviour.