Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering VI ─ Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering (Amce 2016), Hong Kong, 30-31 December 2016

Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering VI includes the contributions to the 6th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering (AMCE 2016, Hong kong, China, 30-31 December 2016), and showcases the challenging developments in the areas of applied mechanics, civil engineering and associated engineering practice. The book covers a wide variety of topics:

- Applied mechanics and its applications in civil engineering;
- Bridge engineering;
- Underground engineering;
- Structural safety and reliability;
- Reinforced concrete (RC) structures;
- Rock mechanics and rock engineering;
- Geotechnical in-situ testing & monitoring;
- New construction materials and applications;
- Computational mechanics;
- Natural hazards and risk, and
- Water and hydraulic engineering.

Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering VI will appeal to professionals and academics involved in the above mentioned areas, and it is expected that the book will stimulate new ideas, methods and applications in ongoing civil engineering advances.

Liquan Xie is an associate professor in the College of Civil Engineering at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience related to hydraulic engineering and geotechnical engineering. He has published more than 60 research papers and spent about 10 years teaching many courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Previously, he worked on the construction of Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the third longest in the world. He also built up technical experience on the construction of large river-crossing bridges and highways.