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Professor Victor C. Li

E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Chair
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
2326 G. G. Brown Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Phone: (734)764-3368
Fax: (734)764-4292
Email: vcli@engin.umich.edu


Education

Ph. D. Solid and Structural Mechanics Brown University 1981
M. S. Mechanical Engineering Brown University 1978
B. S. Mechanical Engineering Brown University 1977
B. A. Economics Brown University 1977

Experience

2005 - Present E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil and Envirn. Engineering, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI .
2004 - Present Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI .
1993 - 2005 Professor of Civil and Envirn. Engineering, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI .
1990 -1993 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1985 -1990 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
1983 -1985 Edgerton Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
1981 -1983 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.

Honors and Awards

Guest Professorship, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2006-
Hua Ying Honorary Lectureship, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2006
U-M Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 2005-2006
Fellow, World Innovation Foundation, 2005-
Finalist, Frank Annunzio Award for “cutting edge” innovations Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, 2005
UM College of Engineering Stephen S. Attwood Excellence in Engineering Award, 2004-2005
Honorary Doctorate, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, 2004
President, Association of Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, 2001-2004
Member, Editorial Board, J. of Cement and Concrete Composites, 2000-2002
Højgaard Visiting Professor of Concrete Technology, Techn. Univ. of Denmark, 1999 - 2004
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999 -
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998
Member, Executive Committee, ASCE Materials Technology Division, 1996 - 1998
Invited Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1996-1997
Visiting Professor of Civil & Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, 1997 summer
Member, Executive Committee, Materials Engineering Division, ASCE, 1996 -
Editor-in-Chief, ASCE J. Materials in Civil Engineering, 1996 - 1999
U-M College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, 1995-1996
Distinguished Lecturer Award, ICCE, 1994
U-M CEE Department Research Excellence Award, 1993-1994
Invited Guest Editor, J. of Cement and Concrete Composites, 1992
Invited Professor of Structural Engineering, Techn. Univ. of Denmark, 1992 summer
Rackham Research Partnership Award, 1991-1992
Edgerton Career Development Chair, M.I.T., 1983-1985
University Fellowship, Brown University, 1977-1978
Tau Beta Pi, 1977- ; Sigma Xi, 1977-

Keynote/Planetary Speaker (selected list)

  • ACI Convention State-of-the-Art Cement and Concrete Applications, Puerto Rico, 2007
  • 1st Int’l Conf. on Self Healing Materials, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 2007
  • 10th Int’l Inorganic-Bonded Fiber Composites Conf., Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006
  • Japan Society of Civil Engineers – TC334 Workshop, 2006
  • Int’l Workshop on Fracture of Materials, Sydney, Australia, 2006
  • ECI on Advances in Cement and Concrete – Sustainability, Switzerland, 2006
  • Knud Højgaard Conf. on Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Denmark, 2005
  • Int’l Seminar on Better Quality of Concrete and Competitiveness of the Construction Industry,” Seoul, Korea, 2005
  • 6th RILEM Symp. on Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), Varenna, Italy, 2004
  • Conf. on Fibre Composites, HPC and Smart Materials, Chennai, India , 2004
  • Int¹l Workshop on Sustainable Concrete Technology, Beijing, China, 2004
  • JCI Japanese Symposium on DFRCC, Japan, 2003
  • Fiber Society on Engineering with Fibers, Loughborough, UK, 2003
  • Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, US, 2002
  • Japan Concrete Institute Workshop on DFRCC, Takayama, Japan, 2002
  • 1st fib Congress ­ Concrete Structures in 21st Century, Osaka, Japan, 2002
  • High Performance Concrete Workshop, Kungmin, China, 2001
  • Int’l Conference on High Performance Concrete, China, 2000
  • 6th Int'l Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, 2000
  • FRAMCOS-3, Gifu, Japan, 1998
  • 5th Int'l Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, 1997
  • ICF-9, Sydney, Australia, 1997
  • Meso-Fracture ‘96, Tomsk, Russia, 1996
  • 4th Japan SAMPE Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
  • 4th Int'l Symposium on Brittle Matrix Composites, Warsaw, Poland, 1994
  • 4th RILEM International Symposium on FRC, Sheffield, UK, 1992
  • MIT Sea Grant Program, WS on Breaking Process of Ice Plates, US, 1984

Member/Chair, Scientific Board of Advisors/Organizing Committee (selected list)

  • Symp. on “Advances in Construction Materials,” Germany, 2007
  • Int’l Workshop on HPFRCC, Mainz, Germany, 2007
  • 1st Int’l Conf. on Self Healing Materials, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2007
  • Int’l Workshop on Fracture of Materials, Sydney, Australia, 2006
  • 11th Int¹l Conf. On Fracture (ICF11), Turin, Italy, 2005
  • Int’l Conf. on Advances in Concrete & Construction (ICACC-2004), India 2004
  • FraMCoS 5th Int'l Symp. on Concrete Fracture, Vail, Colorado, 2004
  • 6th RILEM Symposium on Fibre-Reinforced Concrete, Varenna, Italy, 2004
  • Int'l Conf. on Concrete under Severe Conditions CONSEC 04 Seoul, Korea, 2004
  • HPFRCC-4 Int¹l Workshop, Ann Arbor, US, 2003
  • Int¹l Fiber Society Symposium, Loughborough, UK, 2003
  • Japan Concrete Institute Workshop on DFRCC, Takayama, Japan, 2002
  • International Board of JCI Committee on High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites, 2001- 2004
  • Int' Conf. on Advances in Building Technology, Hong Kong, 2002
  • 2nd Int’l Workshop on Self-Compacting Concrete, Japan, 2001
  • FraMCoS 4th Int'l Symp. on Concrete Fracture, France, 2001
  • Int’l Conference on High Performance Concrete, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, 2000
  • Int’l Workshop on High Performance FRC Composites, Mainz, Germany, 1999
  • Civil & Envir. Engrg. Conf. – New Frontiers & Challenges, AIT 40th Anniv. Celebration, Thailand, 1999
  • Meso-Fracture ’98, Haifa, Isreal, 1998
  • Int’l Workshop on Self-Compacting Concrete, Japan, 1998
  • FraMCoS 3rd Int'l Symp. on Concrete Fracture, Japan, 1998
  • Sixth Int’l Symp. on Ferrocement, Ann Arbor, US, 1998
  • Damage and Failure of Interfaces, Vienna, Austria, 1997
  • ICF-9, Sydney, Australia, 1997
  • Int'l Workshop on HPFRCC, US, 1995
  • FraMCoS 2nd Int'l Symp. on Concrete Fracture, Switzerland, 1995
  • RILEM 4th Int'l Symp. on FRC, UK, 1992
  • RILEM Int'l Conf. Frac./Damage of Conc. & Rock, Austria, 1992
  • FraMCoS 1st Int'l Conf. Frac. Mech. of Conc. Struct., US, 1992
  • SEM Int'l Conf. Micromech. Failure of Quasi-Brittle Mat'ls, US, 1990
  • Int'l Assoc. BEM - Int'l Sym. on BEM, 89, US, 1989
  • ITA Int'l Conf. on Jointed and Faulted Rock, Austria, 1989
  • RILEM Int'l Conf. Frac. Toughness and Frac. Energy, UK, 1989
  • RILEM Int'l Conf. in Fracture of Concrete and Rock, UK, 1987

With Tony at Commencement, April, 2007


Prof Li presents Yang a momento on behalf of ACEMRL, April, 2008


Mo Li wins the University of Michigan Outstanding Student Instructor Award, April, 2008


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Publications

Approximately 225 articles in referred journals and proceedings (ref. ACE-MRL Publications)