Wei Sha

Professor

Dean of Postgraduates, School of Natural and Built Environment

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4017, +44 (0)28 9097 6574
EmailW.Sha@qub.ac.uk

Room 02.011 - 6 Malone Road
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Sustainable Construction Materials: Alkali activated binders/concretes; fly ash; ground granulated blast furnace slag; microstructure; durability

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Personal profile

Research Statement

I graduated from the University of Oxford in 1992 with a PhD in Materials Science after completing a Bachelor degree at Tsinghua University, Beijing. I then joined Imperial College as a postdoctoral research assistant and am now a professor at Queen’s University Belfast. I have never been out of a university since 1981 except for a six-month period in 1997 when seconded to the Steel Construction Institute as a consultant engineer. I have been thoroughly enjoying this academic career though, having authored more than 360 scientific papers and 5 books. I am a Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining and a Fellow of The Institute of Metal Finishing, and was winner of Engineering Employers’ Federation Trophy and the Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award.

Research Interests

Sustainable Construction Materials and Structures

Achievements

Member, Editorial Panel of Proceedings of the ICE - Construction Materials, 2014-2018.
Member, Editorial Board of Materials Science and Technology, 2013-.
Member, Editorial Board of Materials Science and Engineering A, 2012-.
Member, Editorial Board of Surface and Coatings Technology, 2011-2018.
Member, Editorial Board of Acta Metallurgica Sinica, 2009-.
Member, Editorial Board of Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), 2009-.

External examiner of PhD theses for B.S. Abdur Rahman University (India), National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (India), Andhra University (India), Jilin University (China), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Queen Mary University of London, University of Southampton, Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland), Varna Technical University (Bulgaria).

Seminars or lectures given at external organisations:

College of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China

School of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology, China
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, India
Advanced Structural Steel Group, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Mechanics of Materials Research Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester
Department of Materials, Queen Mary, University of London
Materials Research Group, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton
Sterling Group lecture tour to Kuala Lumpur (4 school/colleges) and Singapore (3 junior colleges)
Institute of Metal Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Ohio State University
Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials
School of Materials Science, Harbin Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Surrey
Institut de Sciences des Matériaux, Université Paris-Sud
Faculte des Sciences, Université de Rouen
Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Centre for Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University
Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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Projects

4 Finished
14 Active

R3233NBE: Multi-scale Investigation of Bio-Based Mineral Precipitation in Carbonate Bearing Granular Soils and Construction Waste

Doherty, R., Kumaresan, D., Sha, W. & Sivakumar, V.

10/08/2020 → …

Project: Research

S2445CIV: KTP/ Creagh Concrete Products Limited

Conway, G., Nanukuttan, S., Sha, W. & Soutsos, M.

01/08/2018 → …

Project: ktp

R3810NBE: Low Carbon Footprint Precast Concrete Products for an Energy Efficient Built Environment

Soutsos, M., Chen, J. F., Cox, S., Long, A., Selim, G. & Sha, W.

11/11/2016 → …

Project: Research

R6542CIV: Reuse and Recycling of Materials and Structures in Energy Efficient Prefabricated Elements for Building Refurbishment and Construction - RE4

Soutsos, M. & Sha, W.

29/07/2016 → …

Project: Research

S2386CIV: KTP/Creagh Concrete Products Ltd

Chen, J. F., Nanukuttan, S., Robinson, D., Sha, W. & Soutsos, M.

01/08/2015 → …

Project: ktp

Research Output

Resistance of fly ash geopolymer binders to organic acids

Aiken, T., Kwasny, J. & Sha, W., 20 Aug 2020, In : Materials and Structures. 53, 115.

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Demonstration of using low carbon precast concrete products for an energy efficient built environment

McGrath, T., Kwasny, J., Aiken, T., Cox, S., Soutsos, M., Chen, J. F., Mariotti, J., Sha, W. & Correia Lopes, R. F., 17 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT5) Vol 1 & 2 . Ganjian, E., Limbachiya, M., Ghafoori, N., Claisse, P. & Bagheri, M. (eds.). Coventry, 11 p. IDSMT5076

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Effect of coarse aggregates on FRP strain distribution in an FRP-to-concrete bonded joint

Li, Y-Q., Esmaeeli, E., Chen, J. F., Sha, W. & Soutsos, M., 01 Jul 2019, (Accepted) 9th Biennial Conference on Advanced Composites in Construction 2019, ACIC 2019 03/09/2019 → 05/09/2019 Birmingham, United Kingdom: Proceedings. p. 189-194 6 p.

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Effects of slag substitution on physical and mechanical properties of fly ash-based alkali activated binders (AABs)

Rafeet, A. M., Vinai, R., Soutsos, M. & Sha, W., 01 Aug 2019, In : Cement and Concrete Research. 122, p. 118-135 18 p.

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8 Citations (Scopus)

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Improving the Recycling Rate of the Construction Industry

Grigoriadis, K., Whittaker, M., Soutsos, M., Sha, W., Napolano, L., Klinge, A., Paganoni, S., Casado, M., Brander, L., Prieto Rabade, M., Mueller, U., Mousavi, M., During, O., Scullin, M., Correia, R., Zerbi, T., Merli, I., Ingrosso, I., Attanasio, A. & Largo, A., 07 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT5). Ganjian, E., Limbachiya, M., Ghafoori, N., Claisse, P. & Bagheri, M. (eds.). Coventry: International Committee of the SCMT conferences, Vol. 1. p. 400-414 15 p. (Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies Conferences : Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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