Team Head

Prof. Manchao He

Professor Manchao He is currently an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), foreign Academician of Argentine National Academy of Engineering (ANI) and Russian Academy of Mining Sciences (AGN), the Director of State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering (SKLGDUE) in Beijing, and Professor of China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing (CUMTB), China. He is the ISRM Fellow, the Chairman of the ISRM NG China, the chairman of ISRM Commission on Rockburst, the President of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME) and the President of the Chinese Union for Mining Innovation (CUMI).

He mainly engaged in the research of theory and technology of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, including soft rock large deformation mechanism and control, mining technologies, rockburst mechanism, landslide, active fault stability analysis, monitoring and control, etc. He creatively proposed the 110/N00 mining method technological system which has led the third revolution of mining science and technology in China. He successfully invented the novel energy-absorbing NPR (Negative Poisson’s Ratio) bolt/anchor. The bolt can exhibit extraordinarily large elongation at very high working resistance to the external load, and also have an ideal elastic–plastic behavior. He has been awarded 4 National Awards, 2 Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention and 1 International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM) Technological Innovation Award.