Ma Shuo

CONTACT

INFORMATION

Address: C502 College of Civil Engineering

Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

Website: http://www.homepage.zjut.edu.cn/mashuo/

Code: https://github.com/mashuo10

E-mail: mashuo@zjut.edu.cn

Phone: (86)18758866431

RESEARCH

INTERESTS

Tensegrity Structures/Clustered Tensegrity Structures/Cable Strut Structures; Form-Finding; Topology Optimization; Stability; RBD/FEM Dynamics; Shape Control; Experimental Research

EDUCATIONAL

Background

Ph.D., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Structural Engineering, 2015-2020

• Thesis Advisor: Xingfei Yuan

• Thesis Title: Theoretical and Experimental Research on Self-Equilibrated Tensegrity Cable Domes

Visiting Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

Aerospace Engineering, 2017-2018

• Advisor: Robert E. Skelton

BEng, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xian, China

Civil Engineering, 2011-2015

HONORS &

• National Scholarship(1%) from Ministry of Education of the P.R. China, 2012

AWARDS

• Outstanding Graduate from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, 2015

• Excellent Postgraduates from Zhejiang University, 2017

• Best Poster Award from Doctoral Students Forum of Space Structures, 2018

• Shilin Dong Space Structure Scholarship from Zhejiang University, 2019

ACADEMIC &

EXPERICENCES

Assistant Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 2020-present

• Deriving statics and dynamics equations of clustered tensegrity structures based on FEM.

• Developing a saddle-shaped deployable cable net structure actuated by clustered strings.

• Developing a deployable cable dome structure actuated by clustered strings.

Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2022-present

• Artificial Intelligence of Things Framework for Smart Sensing and Diagnostics of Civil Infrastructure

• A novel framework for occupant comfort and building energy management to accelerate decarbonization

Research Assistant., Zhejiang University, 2015-2020

• Developed statics and dynamics equations of tensegrity structures based on FEM

• Studied form-finding of tensegrity structures based on the Levenberg–Marquardt method.

• Proposed a novel tensegrity torus and optimized the shape for minimal mass under stability constraints.

• Proposed a new genetic algorithm-based topology optimization method of tensegrity tori.

• Investigated the mechanics of self-equilibrated tensegrity cable domes by simulations and experiments.   

Visiting Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University, 2017-2018

• Designed a new tensegrity cantilever structure under yielding and buckling constraints

• Studied the nonlinear shape control of a tensegrity arm

JOURNAL

PUBLICATIONS

1. Shuo Ma, Muhao Chen and R.E. Skelton, Dynamics and control of clustered tensegrity systems[J]. Engineering Structures,2022 (accepted).

2. Shuo Ma, Muhao Chen and R.E. Skelton, Tensegrity system dynamics based on finite element method, Composite Structures, 2022. 280: p. 114838.

3. Shuo Ma, Muhao Chen , Xingfei Yuan and R.E. Skelton, Design and analysis of deployable clustered tensegrity cable domes, 2021, arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08424

4. Shuo Ma, Muhao Chen and R.E. Skelton, Design of a new tensegrity cantilever structure. Composite Structures, 2020. 243: p. 112188.

5. Shuo Ma, Xingfei Yuan, and Liu Yang, Validation of similitude laws for prestressed cable-strut structures. Journal of Building Structures, 2020 (in Chinese) .

6. Shuhui Jiang, Xingfei Yuan, and Shuo Ma, Redundancy properties and evaluation indexes of cable-strut system. Journal of Building Structures, 2019. 47(11): 37-42 (in Chinese).

7. Shuo Ma, Xingfei Yuan and Akram Samy, Shape optimization of a new tensegrity torus. Mechanics Research Communications, 2019. 100: p. 103396.

8. Shuo Ma, Xingfei Yuan and Shengda Xie, A New Genetic Algorithm-based Topology Optimization Method of Tensegrity Tori. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019. 23(5): p. 2136-2147.

9. Shuhui Jiang, Xingfei Yuan, and Shuo Ma, Redundancy theory and evaluation index of cable–strut system. Advances in Structural Engineering, 2019. 22(9): p. 2110-2123.

10. Shuhui Jiang, Xingfei Yuan, and Shuo Ma, An evaluation method for component importance of pin-jointed structures considering structural redundancy. Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology 2018. 50(12): p.187-192 (in Chinese).

11. Xingfei Yuan, Shuo Ma, and Shuhui Jiang, Form-finding of tensegrity structures based on the Levenberg–Marquardt method. Computers and Structures, 2017. 192: p. 171-180.

CONFERENCE

PROCEEDINGS AND ABSTRACTS

1. Ma Shuo; Chen Muhao; Robert Skelton; Finite element analytical formulation for nonlinear tensegrity dynamics; ICCS23 - 23rd International Conference on Composite Structures & MECHCOMP6 - 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Porto, Portugal, 2020

2. Ma Shuo; Yuan Xing-Fei*; A New Deployable Tensegrity Torus. 60th Anniversary Symposium of the IASS, Barcelona, Spain, 2019

3. Ma Shuo; Peng Zhangli; Yuan Xing-Fei*; Numerical form-finding of generalized tensegrity structures, The Fifteenth International Symposium on Structural Engineering (ISSE-15), Hangzhou, China, 2018

4. Ma Shuo; Yuan Xing-Fei*; Topology Optimization of Cable Domes based on Genetic Algorithm, 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics(WCCM2018),New York, United States, 2018.

PATENTS

• A new deployable cable dome based on cable pulley system (Chinese Patent No. ZL202110480685.4)

• A new deployable saddle-shaped cable net based on cable pulley system(Chinese Patent No. ZL202110480498.6)

• A measurement method of creep in steel cables ( Chinese Patent ZL202010110212.0)

• A new deployable tensegrity torus (Chinese Patent No. ZL201910446064.7)

• A new tensegrity torus (Chinese Patent No. ZL201910021688.4)

• An evaluation method of redundancy of cable-strut system ( Chinese Patent No. ZL201610326844.4)

TEACHING

EXPERIENCES

Instructor, Zhejiang University of Technology

• Cognition Practice of Building Structures, Fall 2021 (undergraduate course, 139 students)

• Classical Mechanics, Spring 2021 (undergraduate course, 54 students)

THESIS ADVISOR

Kai Lu (2020-present)

Yiqian Chen (2022-present)