Parameter identification of concrete dams using swarm intelligence algorithm

Siqi Dou is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. He received the BS degree from Zhengzhou University, China, in 2010. His research interests include swarm intelligence optimization, neural network and damage detection of concrete dam.

Junjie Li is a professor in the Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, and Vice-President at Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. Meanwhile, he also works in Tibet University, China, as one of the eighth group of cadres sent to support Tibet. He received his BS degree, MS degree and PhD degree from DUT in 1985, 1987 and 1991, respectively. His current research interests are computational intelligence and its engineering application, numerical analysis, structural health monitoring. Prof Li has won a 1st-Grade Ministry of Education Award at Science and Technology Progress of China in 2012.

Fei Kang is an associate professor in the Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. He received his BS degree and PhD degree from DUT in 2003 and 2009, respectively. During April 2013 to April 2014, he worked as a visiting scholar at School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA. His current research interests are computational intelligence, numerical analysis and structural health monitoring. Dr Kang was elected as Most Cited Chinese Researchers in General Engineering by Elsevier in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and his research papers are elected as ESI “Highly cited papers”.