Zhongzhi Fu
Zhongzhi Fu is a professor and senior engineer in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), which is a non-profit research center governed by the Ministry of Water Resources, China. Dr. Fu specializes in hydraulic structures, especially for embankment and rockfill dams. He obtained his doctoral degree from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2011 and became a consultant engineer for NHRI in June 2011. He has been working on testing and modeling the static and dynamic behavior of earth and rockfill materials and has published more than seventy technical papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Fu has participated in consulting works for more than thirty dams of different types, including the DaShiXia Concrete Faced Gravel Dam in Xinjiang (247 m in height) and the RuMei Earth Core Rockfill Dam in Tibet (315 m in height). He is now the secretary of the Soil and Rock Mechanics Committee in the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society and is a member of the Chinese National Committee on Large Dams.