Er Guokang  鄂國康 Associate Professor

• Post-doc Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada.
• Post-doc Research Fellow, Shanghai University of Technology, China.
• Ph.D in Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.
• M.Sc. in Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.
• B.Sc. in Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, China.

• UM Academic Staff Award, 2011.
• Third prize in the Anthem Lyric Material Contest for UM’s school anthem, 2011.

B.Sc. Courses

1. Mechanics I (CIVL110)
2. Strength of Materials I (CIVL215)
3. Strength of Materials II (CIVL220)
4. Surveying (CIVL360)
5. Structures II (CIVL316)
6. Structures III (CIVL413)
7. Structural System Analysis and Design (CIVL458)
8. Mathematics for Civil Engineering (CEEB221)

1. Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity (IMSC002)
2. Structural Vibrations (IMSC010)
3. Plates and Shells (IMSC011)
4. Structural Analysis and Finite Element (IMSC012)
5. Random Vibrations of Structures (IMSC016)
6. Reliability Analysis in Civil Engineering (IMSC028)

1. Eight master students completed and five master students on going
2. One PhD student completed and one PhD student on going

1. Technical advisor for the UM team attending the 7^th International Inter-University Invitational Civil Engineering Competition (2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. UM team won 2^nd prize among 13 teams from the top universities in Asia and the Pacific.
2. Technical advisor for the UM team attending the 6^th National Structural Competition for Undergraduate Students (2012), Chongqing, China. UM team won third prize.
3. Supervised the FYP for the final year undergraduate student who got the Best FYP Department Award’2012 and ASCE (HK Branch) Best FYP Award’2012.
4. Technical advisor for the UM team attending the 5^th International Inter-University Invitational Civil Engineering Competition (2008), Shanghai, China. UM team won third prize among 18 teams from the top universities in Asia and the Pacific.

Research Interests

• Nonlinear stochastic dynamics
• Stochastic finite element
• Structural reliability
• Analysis of thermal plates
• Flexural-torsional buckling of structures
• Software development in science and engineering

Recent Research Projects

1. “The applications of state-space-split-EPC method in analyzing the probabilistic solutions of some MDOF nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems”, funded by the Research Committee of the University of Macau, 06/2011-05/2014, principal investigator.
2. “Investigation on the application of EPC method to some nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems”, funded by the Research Committee of the University of Macau, 10/2006-/12/2009, principal investigator.
3. “Investigation on stochastic finite element analysis of structures with element decomposition method”, funded by the Research Committee of the University of Macau, 4/2006-3/2009, principal investigator.

Software Products

• Room for analyzing nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems (Ransds), 2009.
• 3D structural analysis station (3D-SAS), v1.0, 2007.
• Simulation and animation of surface mining operating systems, 2004.

Book/Chapter Contributions

1. Er, G. K. (2013). The probabilistic solutions of some nonlinear stretched beams excited by filtered white noise.  Multiscale Problems in Stochastic Mechanics, IUTAM book series, Vol. 6 (2013), Elsevier, 141-150.
2. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P. (2011). A new method for the probabilistic solutions of large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems.  Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control, IUTAM book series, Vol. 29 (2011), Springer, 25-34.

Journal Papers:

1. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P., (2012). Subspace method for analyzing large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with polynomial type of nonlinearities, Int. J. Computational Methods, 9(1), 1240017, DOI: 10.1142/S0219876212400178.
2. Zhu, H. T., Er, G. K., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P., (2012). PDF Solution of non-linear systems driven by Poisson pulses with non-Gaussian distributed amplitude, Int. J. Computational Methods, 9(1), 1240018, DOI: 10.1142/S021987621240018X.
3. Zhu, H. T., Er, G. K., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P., (2012) Responses of nonlinear oscillators excited by nonzero-mean parametric Poisson impulse on displacement, ASCE J. Engineering Mechanics, 138(5), 450-457.
4. Guo, S. S. and Er, G. K. (2012). The probabilistic solution of stochastic oscillators with even nonlinearity under Poisson excitation, Central European Journal of Physics, 10(3), 702-707, DOI: 10.2478/s11534-012-0062-7.
5. Er, G. K., Guo, S. S. and Iu, V. P., (2012). Probabilistic solutions of stochastic oscillators with even nonlinearity in displacement, ASME J. Vibration and Acoustics, 134, 054501-1-3.
6. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P., (2011). The approximate solutions of FPK equations in high dimensions for some nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems, Communications in Computational Physics, 10(5), 1241-1256, doi: 10.4208/cicp.140710.210111a.
7. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P., (2011). Analysis of some large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with subspace-EPC method, Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 54(9), 1631-1637, DOI: 10.1007/s11433-011-4443-5.
8. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2011). PDF solution to nonlinear ship roll motion excited by external Poisson white noise, Science China: Technological Sciences, 54(5), 1121-1125, doi: 10.1007/s11431-011-4342-z.
9. Zhu, H. T., Er, G. K., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2011). Probabilistic solutions of nonlinear oscillators excited by combined Gaussian and Poisson white noises, J. Sound and Vibrations, 330, 2900–2909, doi:10.1016/j.jsv.2011.01.005.
10. Er, G. K., (2011). Methodology for the solutions of some reduced Fokker-Planck equations in high dimensions. Annalen der Physik, 523(3), 247-258, DOI: 10.1002/andp.201010465.
11. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2010). Nonzero mean PDF solution of nonlinear oscillators under external Gaussian white noise. Nonlinear Dynamics, 62, 743-750, DOI 10.1007/s11071-010-9758-7.
12. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2008). PDF Solution of Nonlinear Oscillators under External and Parametric Poisson Impulses, AIAA Journal, 46(11), 2839-2847.

Conference Papers:

1. Er, G. K. and Tang, Z. (2012), Analysis of the power spectrum of seismic ground acceleration and an improved Kanai-Tajimi model. National Conference on Computational Mechanics’2012, Nov. 8-11, 2012, Chongqing, China. (in Chinese).
2. Guo, S. S., Er, G. K., and Iu, V. P. (2012), PDF solution of stochastic oscillators with even nonlinearity and parametric excitation in velocity. International Conference on Noise and Vibration, September 17-21, 2012, Leuven, Belgium. (awarded the ISMA Student Fellowship sponsored by the European Committee via the FP7 Marie Curie ITN projects VECOM and MID-FREQUENCY).
3. Er, G. K. (2012), The probabilistic solution of nonlinear Euler-Bernoulli beam excited by Poisson white noise. The 23th IUTAM Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 19-24, 2012, Beijing, China.
4. Er, G. K. (2011), The probabilistic solution of the nonlinear multi-story shear frame excited by stochastic excitation with state-space-split-EPC method, The National Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of China and Commemorate the 100^th  Birthday of Tsien Hsue-Shen, August 20-24, 2011, Harbin, China. (invited talk)
5. Er, G. K. (2011), The probabilistic solutions of some large nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with state-space-split method, International Conference on Statistical Physics’2011, July 11-15, 2011, Larnaca, Cyprus.
6. Er, G. K. (2011), The probabilistic solutions of some MDOF nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with state-space-split method, The First International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Modern Applied Mathematics, June 25-27, 2011, Xian, China, (invited talk).
7. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P. (2010), 求大规模非线性随机动力系统概率密度函数解的子空间法, 中国计算力学大会’2010 暨第八届南方计算力学学术会议, 2010年8月20-26，四川绵阳。(keynote lecture).
8. Er, G. K., Guo, X. X. and Iu, V. P., (2010). Finite element method for the probabilistic solution of nonlinear stochastic dynamic oscillators with Poisson excitation, 6th Computational Stochastic Mechanics Conference, June 13-16, 2010, Rhodes Island, Greece.
9. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P. (2010), A new method for the probabilistic solutions of large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems. IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control, May 10-14, 2010, Hangzhou, China. (invited talk).
10. Er, G. K. and Iu, V. P (2009), General procedure of formulating the governing equations for analyzing outrigger-braced structures, 7^th International Conference on Tall Buildings, pp589-595, 29-30 October 2009, Hong Kong, China.
11. Er, G. K., Wang, X. H, and Lan, S. W. (2009), The optimum outrigger locations in outrigger-braced structures with complex objective, 7^th International Conference on Tall Buildings, pp563-570, 29-30 October 2009, Hong Kong, China.
12. Er, G. K., V.P. Iu, Zhu, H. T., K.P. Kou (2009), Non-zero mean PDF solution of nonlinear oscillators due to Poisson white noise", The Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) in conjunction with The Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), November 30-December 3, 2009, Hong Kong – Macau, China.
13. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., V.P. Iu, K.P. Kou (2009), PDF Solutions of nonlinear oscillators under Poisson impulse with non-Gaussian amplitude. The Third Asia-Pacific International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering, Oct 18-22, 2009, Nanjing, China.
14. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., V.P. Iu, K.P. Kou (2009), PDF solutions of the stochastic oscillators with hysteretic force", The Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Mechanics (RANM 2009), August 24-27, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
15. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., V.P. Iu, K.P. Kou (2009), PDF solution to hardening hysteretic systems excited by Gaussian white noise", The 10th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2009), Sept. 13-17, 2009, Osaka, Japan.
16. Er, G. K., Iu, V. P. and Liu, X. L. (2009), The recent development in the buckling analysis of thermal plates. The 13th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2008-2009 and the 5th Jiangsu – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application, Symposium on the Development of Mechanics in Macau, March 13-14, 2009, Hong Kong and Macau, China.
17. Er, G. K., Liu, X. L. and Iu, V. P. (2009), Analysis of thermal FGM plates with finite element method”. The 3rd Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August, 24-26, 2009, Zhengzhou, China.
18. Er, G. K., Liu, X. L. and Iu, V. P. (2009), Thermal analysis of FGM plates using the finite element method”. The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering (ICOME 2009), October 18-22, 2009, Nanjing, China, Paper NO.: ICMOE2009093.
19. Er, G. K., Lan, S. W. and Iu, V. P. (2009), Analysis of stochastic plane frames with elementary stiffness matrix decomposition method, The 13th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2008-2009 and the 5th Jiangsu – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application, Symposium on the Development of Mechanics in Macau, March 13-14, 2009, Hong Kong and Macau, China.
20. Er, G. K., Lan, S. W., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2009), Stochastic plane frames analysis with elementary stiffness matrix decomposition method, The 11th  Conference on Modern Mathematics and Mechanics, July, 2009, Lanzhou, China.
21. Er, G. K., Wang, M. C., Lan, S. W., and Iu, V. P., (2009), Stochastic plane stress analysis with elementary stiffness matrix decomposition method, The 3rd Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August, 24-26, 2009, Zhengzhou, China.
22. Er, G. K., Lan, S. W., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2009), Analysis of stochastic plane frames with elementary stiffness matrix decomposition method”, The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering, Oct. 18-22, 2009, Nanjing, China.
23. Er, G. K., Lan, S. W., and Iu, V. P. (2009), Analysis of stochastic space frames with elementary stiffness matrix decomposition method, The 2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) and The 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), 30 November-3 December, 2009, Hong Kong and Macau, China.
24. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P. (2008). PDF solution to nonlinear oscillators excited by Gaussian and Poisson white noises,  Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2008, CD-ROM), August 25-29, 2008, Adelaide, Australia.
25. Er, G. K., Zhu, H. T., Iu, V. P. and Kou, K. P.  (2008). “Approximate Solution to the Kolmogorov–Feller Equation”, The Third International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, December 8-12, 2008, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

Professional Services

• Member of the organizing committee of The 13th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XIII), November, 2013.
• Reviewer of the International Journal of Computational Methods, 2011.
• Session chair in the International Conference on Computational Methods, Nov. 15-17, 2010, Zhangjiajie, China.
• Member of the organizing committee of The Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) in conjunction with The Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), Dec., 2009, Macau, China.
• Session chair in The 10th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2009), Sept. 13-17, 2009, Osaka, Japan.
• “High strain dynamic pile testing for the building of heavy truck parking lot at Taipa” at Macau, 6/2007.
• “Low strain dynamic pile testing and analysis for the building of Macau Water”, 5/2007.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of the bridge at gate” at Macau, 5/2007.
• “Low strain dynamic pile testing and analysis for the building of heavy truck parking lot at Taipa” at Macau, 3/2007.
• “Parapet analysis and design of the bridge at the junction of Sun Yat-Sen road and Marciano Baptista road” at Macau, 3/2007.
• “High strain dynamic pile testing for the building of Ho Xian park” at Macau, 11/2006.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of Nanwan bridge” at Macau, 11/2006.
• “Inspection and analysis on the pile testing with self-balance method for the building of heavy truck parking lot at Taipa” at Macau, 9/2006.
• “Design, construction, and testing result checking with problem identification for a hotel building” at Macau, 8/2006.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of the bridge at Lisboa Hotel” at Macau, 5/2006.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of the bridge at Lisboa Hotel” at Macau, 5/2006.
• “Low strain and high strain dynamic pile testing and analysis for the building of Police Station at Taipa” at Macau, 3/2006.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of Ba Po Sha bridge” at Macau, 2/2006.
• “Inspection of flyover bridges in Macau”, 1/2006.
• “Cracking development in the wall of the building of Macau House Bureau”, 9/2005.
• “Structural dynamic behavior monitoring of the building for East Asian Games” at Macau, 7/2005.
• “Parapet rehabilitation analysis and design of Song Shan bridge” at Macau, 7/2005.
• “Strength capacity testing of the building for China Mobile Inc. at Macau”, 5/2005.
• “Analysis and design of Leshan flyover bridge”, Sichuan, China, 1994.

University Services

• Member of Department Executive Committee, 04/2013-.
• Member of the Graduate Study Committee of FST, 09/2011-12/2012.
• Member of the Department Advisory Committee, 05/2011-.
• Member of the PhD Thesis Advisory Committees for PhD students, 2010-.
• Member of the PhD Examination Committees for PhD students, 2008-.
• Member of the MSc Examination Committees and examiner for master students.
• Member of the BSc Examination Committees and examiner for undergraduate students.

Academic Activities and Community Services

• Invited talk entitled “The probabilistic solutions of some nonlinear stretched beams excited by filtered white noise”.  IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Stochastic Mechanics, June 25-28, 2012, Karlsruher, Germany
• Session chair and invited talk entitled “The probabilistic solution of the nonlinear multi-story shear frame excited by stochastic excitation with state-space-split-EPC method” in The National Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of China, August 20-24, 2011, Harbin, China.
• Invited talk entitled “Advances in analyzing nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems” in the Symposium Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the EPMESC Conferences, April 4, 2011, Macau, China.
• Invited talk entitled “The probabilistic solutions of some MDOF nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with state-space-split method” in The First International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Modern Applied Mathematics, June 25-27, 2011, Xian, China.
• Invited talk entitled “State-space-split method for the probabilistic solutions of some large nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems” in the Department of Mathematics at University of Macau, July 6, 2011, Macau, China.
• Keynote lecture entitled “Subspace method for the probability density function solutions of large nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems” in the 8^th National Conference on Computational Mechanics, August 20-36, 2010, Mianyang, China.
• Invited talk entitled “Subspace method for the probabilistic solutions of large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems” at Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, August 9, 2010, Shanghai, China.
• Session chair and invited talk entitled “A new method for the probabilistic solutions of large-scale nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems” in IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics and Control, May 9-14, 2010, Hangzhou, China.

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Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau
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Macau, China

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