Journal of Intelligent Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations

Li Weiguo is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Aerospace Engineering,  Chongqing University. He has been selected for the National High-Level Talent Program, the Young  and Middle-Aged Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent by the Ministry of Science and  Technology, the Outstanding Talent of the New Century by the Ministry of Education, and the "Hongshen" Distinguished Scholar at Chongqing University. He serves as a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Mechanics, an Executive Council Member of the Chinese Society of  Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the President of the Chongqing Society of Theoretical and Applied  Mechanics, and the position of Director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Heterogeneous Material  Mechanics. He is a member or deputy director of numerous committees, including the Solid Mechanics  Committee of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the Expert Committee for the  Lunar Exploration Mission of the Sixth Academy of Aerospace, the Thermal Protection Composite  Materials Committee of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials, the Deep Space Exploration  Technology Committee of the Chinese Astronautical Society, the Material Technology Expert Advisory  Committee of the China Academy of Space Technology, the Structural Ceramics Technical Committee  of the Inorganic Non-Metallic Materials Field Committee of the China Standards Innovation Group, the  High-Temperature Testing Technical Committee of the Testing Technology Branch of the Chinese  Ceramic Society, and the Dam Concrete and Rock Fracture Mechanics Committee of the Chinese  Society for Dam Engineering. He is also the leader of several provincial and ministerial-level research  teams and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Chinese Journal of Theoretical  and Applied Mechanics, Advances in Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Packaging  Engineering, Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics, and High-Temperature Materials. He has presided  over seven National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, including a major research  instrumentation development project. He has published over 230 SCI papers and has been granted 22  invention patents.  

Research Areas: 
High-temperature mechanical properties of materials, strengthening and toughening theories, damage  and fracture mechanics, and constitutive relations; thermal protection materials and technologies for  hypersonic vehicles; theoretical characterization methods and instrumentation development for material  mechanical behavior under extreme environments.