• Wood physical degradation
• Fluvial hydraulics: Flood propagation, Sediment transport, Morphological changes
• Experiment methods and numerical simulation

Selected journal articles:

Yang, J., Shi, Z., Soares-Frazão, S., Zheng, H., & Shen, D. (2024). Influence of dam and erodible bed material composition on landslide dam failure and induced morphological changes: an experimental study. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 83(2), 61.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-024-03556-6

Guan, S., Shi, Z., Zheng, H., Shen, D., Hanley, K. J., Yang, J., & Xia, C. (2023). Effects of soil properties and geomorphic parameters on the breach mechanisms of landslide dams and prediction of peak discharge. Acta Geotechnica, 18(10), 5485-5502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-023-01908-2

Shen, D., Shi, Z., Zheng, H., Yang, J., & Hanley, K. J. (2022). Effects of grain composition on the stability, breach process, and breach parameters of landslide dams. Geomorphology, 413, 108362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108362

Yang, J., Shi, Z., Peng, M., Zheng, H., Soares-Frazão, S., Zhou, J., Shen, D., & Zhang, L. (2022). Quantitative risk assessment of two successive landslide dams in 2018 in the Jinsha River, China. Engineering Geology, 304, 106676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106676

Shen, D., Shi, Z., & Yang, J. (2021). Research on the erodibility of landslide dam materials based on flume test. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 861(5), 052022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/861/5/052022

Ma, J., Xiong, X., Yang, J., Mikami, R., Shi, Z., & Zhang, F. (2020). Element tests on hydraulic-mechanical behavior of saturated/unsaturated landslide dam materials. Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication, 8(9), 360-365. https://doi.org/10.3208/jgssp.v08.j30

Presentations:

Yang, J., Soares-Frazão, S., Shi, Z. 2023. 2D numerical modelling of shallow water flows over multi-fraction and multi-layer sediments. 40th IAHR World Congress. (Vienna, Austria)

Yang, J., Soares-Frazão, S., Shi, Z. 2023. Experimental and numerical study on landslide dam breaching. M.S. YALIN MEMORIAL COLLOQUIUM 2023. (Palermo, Italy)

Yang, J., Shi, Z., Soares-Frazão, S. 2022. Experiment study on landslide dams breach and its impact on morphological evolution. 11th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics. (Online, Canada)

Yang, J., Shi, Z., Peng, M. 2019. Simulation of Flood Evolution and Quantitative Rrisk Assessment of Baige Landslide in Jinsha River, China. 12th ARC of IAEG 2019. (Jeju, South Korea)

• Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)