2024
November, 2024
Congratulations to Fanyu for winning the Best Student Presentation Award for "Influence of carbon dioxide on micro-cracking: Insights from atomistic scale investigation" at CouFrac2024, Kyoto, Japan!
April, 2024
Our website is officially online. Welcome to the Hu Lab at HKU!
March, 2024
Congratulations to Chong on receiving the prestigious Dissertation Year Fellowship! Read more here.
February, 2024
Xiaojie's thesis entitled "A (Bio)chemo-hydro-mechanical Framework for Enhanced Cracking in Geomaterials" is awarded the 2023/2024 Ringo Yu Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Geotechnical Studies - Congrats!
2023
November, 2023
Dr. Hu presented our work for TechTalk at Tam Wing Fan Innovaition Wing Two entitled "Environmental Geomechanics: Towards a Minimised Chemical Footprint in Geo-energy Engineering". The detailed information can be found at innowings website.
September, 2023
Xiaojie successfully defended his PhD. Congrats Dr. Tang!
July, 2023
Prof. Lyesse Laloui visited the Department and our group delivering the Distinguished Public Lecture on "Smart Exploitation of the Renewable Energy Situated Under Our Cities" - inspiring!
June, 2023
Dr. Hu presented our work at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2023 (EMI 2023) entitled "Reaction cross-diffusion and the long-term behaviour of bio-geomaterials" and "Reactive chemo-hydro-mechanics for modelling aggressive fluid injection".
June, 2023
Prof. Victor M. Calo visited our group bringing "Geological processes modelling and simulation: phase-transition, dynamic fracture propagation, and compaction band formation" and we discussed on the fascinating patterns formed under geothermal environment.
