Energy and Environmental Geomechanics Group
The Director
Dr. Biao Li is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Concordia University. He joined Concordia in Aug. 2016. Previously, he obtained a B.Sc. and a MASc from China University of Geosciences Beijing, and latterly a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, Canada. His research expertise is in experimental and computational geomechanics, thermal-hydro-mechanical coupling, soil-structure interaction, and geophysics. He was selected as a future leader of the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) in 2021. He serves as the associate editors of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Environmental Geotechnics, and as the editorial board members of Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, and Deep Resources Engineering.
NEWS
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2024-03-09 Dr. Li delivered an online lecture through the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) Future Leader webinar, titled: Thermo-poromechanics for geo-energy engineering
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The online version can be found in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-RaVUF8Jw
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2018-12-01: Student Mr. Sohail Akhtar completed his Master program and will continue to be my PhD student. Congrats, Sohail!
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2018-07-05: Student Mr. Sohail Akhtar was awarded the Port of Montreal Award in Transportation Studies for his excellence in the course and research work. Congrats, Sohail!
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2017-05-17: Dr. Li was awarded the KSRM scholarship Award during the 2017 YSRM Young scholars' Symposium on Rock Mechanics
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2016-12-08: Concordia’s Civil Engineering program ranks top 20 of the world! by Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016:
LATEST RESEARCH
Flow in dense clay and soft mudrock (Li et al. 2018)
Thermally induced tensile fracturing of shale
(Li and Wong 2018)
Flow in fractures (Li et al. 2014)
Thermal-hydro-mechanical analysis of wellbore responses under thermal recovery (Li et al. 2018)
Ground source heat pumps for maintaining thawing permafrost
Simulated by our in house developed poro-mechanical FEM code
Borehole geothermal energy storage (BTES) in cold regions, Simulated using in-house developed THM coupled FEM code
Specially designed Lab tests at low and high temperature conditions