Name：Panpan Gai
● Position and Technical Title：Associate Professor
● Research Areas：
Structural vibration control;
Smart Vibration Reduction Materials and Control Mechanisms;
Machine Learning and Intelligent Disaster Prevention;
Metamaterial.
● Graduate Admission Professions：
Graduate Admissions
Warmly welcome applicants who are passionate about research and have academic backgrounds (including interdisciplinary backgrounds) in mechanics, materials science, civil engineering, transportation engineering, computer science, control engineering, or related fields.
Our group maintains long‑term close collaborations with the Vibration Control and Smart Disaster Prevention Research Group at Southeast University, the Smart Structure Technology Laboratory Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, and the Vibration Mechanics and Smart Disaster Prevention Research Group at Northeastern University. I actively encourage and support our students to pursue further academic advancement.
● E-mail：gai@ujs.edu.cn
● Corresponding Address：
School of Low‑Altitude Technology, Jiangsu University, No.301, Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province(212013)
● Education and Work Experience
Southeast University Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Joint Ph.D.
● Academic and Social Part-time
Member of Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering
Member of The American Society of Civil Engineers
Reviewer of Engineering Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Structures, Journal of Vibration and Control et al
● Teaching Courses
Vibration Control of Engineering Structures
Mechanics of Materials
Structural Resilience and Intelligent Disaster Prevention
Design of Concrete Structures
● Academic Research Project
[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Science Foundation Project – Principal Investigator
[2] Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund Project – Principal Investigator
[3] China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Project – Principal Investigator
[4] Ministry of Science and Technology "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory for Smart Disaster Prevention of Major Infrastructure, Open Project – Principal Investigator
[5] NSFC General Program – Core Project Member
[6] Jiangsu Provincial Major Project for Frontier‑Leading Technology Basic Research – Task Leader
[7] NSFC General Program – Core Project Member
[8] National Key Research and Development Program – Core Project Member
[9] Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program – Core Project Member
● Academic Publications
A training-efficient Wiener-type neural network modeling approach for structural dynamic response prediction. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (2026).
Experimental and analytical research of a new metal-viscoelastic composite damper. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2026): 105425.
Experimental Investigations on Mechanical Properties and Cantilever Structure Vibration Mitigation Performance of a Rotationally Tunable Permanent Magnet MR Damper. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (2026): 2750365.
High-performance bidisperse magnetorheological fluids via combining modified carbonyl iron powder and octahedral/sheet-like Fe3O4 nanoparticles: preparation and cross-scale experimental validation for comprehensive performance. Physics of Fluids 38.2 (2026).
Heat-storage LC³ mortar with calcium carbonate coating: Mechanical, microstructural, and thermal performance. Construction and Building Materials 540 (2026): 147579.
A novel two-state active tuned mass damper inerter control of high-flexibility long-span bridges. Journal of Structural Engineering 151.11 (2025): 05025005.
Performance enhancement of seismically protected buildings using viscoelastic tuned inerter damper. Actuators. Vol. 14. No. 8. MDPI, 2025.
A deep learning–based surrogate model for spatial-temporal temperature field prediction in subway tunnel fires via CFD simulation. Journal of Dynamic Disasters 1.1 (2025): 100002.
Effects of calcined coal gangue and carbide slag on the properties of cement paste and mortar. Materials 18.10 (2025): 2242.
A Generalized Dynamic Analysis Method for the Linear Structural System with Viscoelastic Elements. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 24.23 (2024): 2450262.
Robust damping improvement against the vortex-induced vibration in flexible bridges using multiple tuned mass damper inerters. Engineering Structures 313 (2024): 118221.
A hybrid constitutive model of high-damping viscoelastic materials used for vibration control of civil structures." Engineering Structures 304 (2024): 117648.
A generalized mechanical model with high-flexibility of viscoelastic damping materials and devices considering frequency and amplitude dependence effects. Engineering Structures 288 (2023): 116131.
Inerter location effect on the generalized tuned mass damper inerter control. Structures. Vol. 58. Elsevier, 2023. (Vol. 58, p. 105517). Elsevier.
Greenhouse gas emissions from US crude oil pipeline accidents: 1968 to 2020. Scientific Data 10.1 (2023): 563.
Development and validation of a nonlinear model to describe the tension–compression behavior of rubber-like base isolators. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 149.2 (2023): 04022104.
A reduced-order improved rational polynomial method for viscoelastically damped structures considering ambient temperature effect. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 159 (2022): 107315.
A modified fractional-order derivative zener model for rubber-like devices for structural control. Journal of Engineering Mechanics 148.1 (2022): 04021119.
Seismic performance of viscoelastically damped structures at different ambient temperatures. Journal of Vibration and Control 27.23-24 (2021): 2819-2834.
Mitigation of vortex-induced vibration in bridges using semiactive tuned mass dampers. Journal of Bridge Engineering 26.6 (2021): 05021003.
Optimal design of tuned mass damper inerter with a Maxwell element for mitigating the vortex-induced vibration in bridges. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 148 (2021): 107180.
Effect of frequency dependence on the seismic performance of linear viscoelastic base-isolated structures. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 139 (2020): 106396.
Gradient chain structure model for characterizing frequency dependence of viscoelastic materials. Journal of Engineering Mechanics-ASCE 146.9 (2020): 04020094.
Parameter determination of the tuned mass damper mitigating the vortex-induced vibration in bridges. Engineering Structures 221 (2020): 111084.
Effect of frequency dependence of large mass ratio viscoelastic tuned mass damper on seismic performance of structures. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 130 (2020): 105998.
Tuned mass-damper-inerter control of wind-induced vibration of flexible structures based on inerter location." Engineering Structures 199 (2019): 109585.
Parameters design of TMD mitigating vortex-induced vibration of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge deep-water nonnavigable bridge. Journal of Bridge Engineering-ASCE 24.8 (2019): 06019005.
Dynamic analysis of viscoelastic tuned mass damper system under harmonic excitation. Journal of Vibration and Control 25.11 (2019): 1768-1779.
Recent advances in multi-dimensional vibration mitigation materials and devices. Frontiers in Materials 6 (2019): 143.
Experimental and theoretical study on a building structure controlled by multi-dimensional earthquake isolation and mitigation devices. Nonlinear Dynamics 89.1 (2017): 723-740.
