Victor C. Li, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, RI, 1981
M.S., Brown University, Providence, RI, 1978
B.S. (Engineering), Brown University, Providence, RI, 1977
B.A. (Economics), Brown University, Providence, RI, 1977

- Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 2007
- Fellow, World Innovation Foundation, 2005
- Stephen S. Attwood Excellence in Engineering Award, UM Coll. of Engineering. 2004-2005
- Finalist, Frank Annunzio Award for “cutting edge” innovations, Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, 2005
- Honorary Doctorate, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Denmark, 2004
- President, IA-FraMCoS, 2001-2004
- Knud Højgaard Chair Visiting Professor, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Denmark, 1999-2004
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998
- Keynote/Plenary Speaker
    - Congress 2008 - Concrete: Construction's Sustainable Option, Dundee, Scotland, 2008
    - 1st Int’l Conf. on Self Healing Materials, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 2007
    - 10th Int’l Inorganic-Bonded Fiber Composites Conf., Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006
    - Japan Society of Civil Engineers TC-334, Tokyo, Japan, 2006
    - Int’l Conference on Fracture of Materials: Moving Forwards, Sydney, Australia, 2006
    - Knud Højgaard Conf. on Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Denmark, 2005
    - 6th RILEM Symp. on Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), Varenna, Italy, 2004
    - Conf. on Fibre Composites, HPC and Smart Materials, Chennai, India, 2004
    - Int'l Workshop on Sustainable Concrete Technology, Beijing, China, 2004
    - JCI Japanese Symposium on DFRCC, Japan, 2003
    - Fiber Society on Engineering with Fibers, Loughborough, UK, 2003
    - Japan Concrete Institute Workshop on DFRCC, Takayama, Japan, 2002
- Member, Advisory Board/Scientific Committee of the following Int'l Conferences:
    - Int’l Conf. on Durability of Concrete Structures (ICDCS 2008), Hangzhou, China, 2008
    - Int’l Symp. on Hydration, Microstructure and Durability, Nanjing, China, 2008
    - Int’l Conf. on Challenges for Civil Construction, Porto, Portugal, 2008
    - 8th Int’l Symp. on Utilization of High Performance Concrete, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
    - Symp. on Advances in Construction Materials, Germany, 2007
    - Int’l Workshop on HPFRCC, Mainz, Germany, 2007
    - 1st Int’l Conf. on Self-Healing Materials, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2007
    - Int’l Workshop on Fracture of Materials, Sydney, Australia, 2006
    - Int’l Workshop on Durability of Reinforced Concrete, Qingdao, China, 2005
    - 11th Int'l Conf. On Fracture (ICF11), Turin, Italy, 2005
    - Int'l Conf. on Advances in Concrete & Construction (ICACC-2004), India, 2004
    - Int'l Conf. on Concrete under Severe Conditions CONSEC 04 Seoul, Korea, 2004
    - 6th RILEM Symposium on Fibre-Reinforced Concrete, Varenna, Italy, 2004
    - HPFRCC-4 Int'l Workshop, Ann Arbor, US, 2003
    - Int'l Fiber Society Symposium, Loughborough, UK, 2003
    - Japan Concrete Institute Workshop on DFRCC, Takayama, Japan, 2002

Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),
member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), and the Int'l Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials (RILEM);
Chair of 5th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures (FraMCoS-5);
Chair of RILEM TC-HPC on High Performance Fiber Reinforced Composites.

My research interest includes the design, processing and characterization of advanced fiber reinforced cementitious composites, and the elevating of the ultra-ductility of such materials to the mechanical and durability performance of structural elements and systems. A special focus is on the integration of materials, structures, and environmental concerns for infrastructure sustainability. Research activities in our research group combine micromechanics analyses, numerical simulation, and laboratory and full scale field testing. The interdisciplinary research program has been sponsored by NSF, MDOT, AFOSR, DoE, FHWA, NRC, and numerous industrial concerns (e.g. W.R. Grace, Kuraray, Wonha, DuPont, Conoco, Shimizu, Kajima, Redco, Rocla).

Lepech, M.D., V.C. Li, R.E. Robertson, and G.A. Keoleian, “Design of Ductile Engineered Cementitious Composites for Improved Sustainability,” ACI Materials J., V. 105, No. 6, 2008.

Sahmaran, M., V.C. Li, and C. Andrade, "Corrosion Resistance Performance of Steel-Reinforced Engineered Cementitious Composites Beams," ACI Materials J., 105(3) 243-250, 2008.

Lepech, M.D., and V.C. Li, “Large Scale Processing of Engineered Cementitious Composites,” ACI Materials J., 105(4) 358-366, 2008.

Sahmaran, M., and V.C. Li, “Durability of Mechanically Loaded Engineered Cementitious Composites under Highly Alkaline Environment”, J. Cement and Concrete Composites, 30(2) 72-81, 2008.

Sahmaran, M., M. Li, and V.C. Li, “Transport Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites Under Chloride Exposure,” ACI Materials J.,
104(6) 604-611, 2007.

Yang, E.H., Y. Yang, and V.C. Li, “Use of High Volumes of Fly Ash to Improve ECC Mechanical Properties and Material Greenness,” ACI Materials J., 104(6) 620-628, 2007.

Wang, S., and V.C. Li, “Engineered Cementitious Composites with High Volume Fly Ash,” ACI Materials J., 104 (3) 233-241, May-June, 2007.

Sahmaran, M., and V.C. Li, “De-icing Salt Scaling Resistance of Mechanically Loaded Engineered Cementitious Composites,” J. Cement and Concrete Research, 37, 1035-1046, 2007.

Li, V.C., “Integrated Structures and Materials Design,” RILEM J. of Materials and Structures, 40 (4) 387-396, 2007.

Kanda, T. and V.C. Li, “Practical Design Criteria for Saturated Pseudo Strain Hardening Behavior in ECC,” J. Advanced Concrete Technology, 4(1) 59-72, 2006. [JACT Best Paper Award, 2007].

Wang, S., and V.C. Li, “High Early Strength Engineered Cementitious Composites,” ACI Materials J., 103 (2) 97-105, 2006.