Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University  
Committee Member, Computational Mechanics Committee and Elasticity Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE  
Email: liaom@cqu.edu.cn

2011, Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities  
2007, M.S., Tsinghua University  
2004, B.S., Tsinghua University

2012-Present, Chongqing University

3D printed concrete structures  
Structures for renewable energy harvesting  
Quadrature element method-based structural analysis

1. Collapse analysis of I-35W bridge in Minnesota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge)  
2. Fatigue and fracture-based design of unbonded concrete overlay pavements  
3. Quadrature element method-based analyses of structural dynamics, postbuckling and cracking

1. M Liao, Weak-form quadrature element method: A comparative review of different formulations and its comprehensive assessment, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 30(1): 317-329, 2023.  
2. M Liao, Y Wu, Conceptual design and dynamic analysis of a novel passive floating offshore wind turbine structure, Ships and Offshore Structures, 16(10): 1040-1049, 2021.  
3. M Liao, P Zhang, Multiple crack propagation and coalescence in finite elements with minimal local remeshing using the subregion generalized variational principle, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 146(10): 04020111, 2020.  
4. M Liao, G Xu, YB Yang, Geometrically nonlinear quadrature element analysis of spatial curved beams, Engineering Structures, 209: 110004, 2020.  
5. M Liao, P Zhang, An improved approach for computation of stress intensity factors using the finite element method, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 101: 185-190, 2019.  
6. M Liao, H Xu, Lifecycle simulation for unbonded concrete overlay design, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 144(1): 04017151, 2018.  
7. M Liao, F Chen, Z Chen, YB Yang, A weak-form quadrature element formulation for 3D beam elements used in nonlinear and postbuckling analysis of space frames, Engineering Structures, 145: 34-43, 2017.

2011 Interdisciplinary Transportation Student Organization Paper Award, University of Minnesota