Dr. Zhidong Zhang
Dr. Zhidong Zhang
Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
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Research area
Concrete durability
Mass transport in porous materials
Cement hydration
Durability of low-carbon binders
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Current projects
Corrosion-induced cracking of the concrete cover
Diffusion potentials in concrete
Moisture transport and retention in porous media
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 151-0638-00L | MaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Engineering with Living Materials |
Zhidong Zhang joined Prof. Dr. Ueli Angst's Durability of Engineering Materials group in January 2017. He is working on the project entitled "Transport, precipitation, and expansive stresses of corrosion products". This project aims to develop a theoretical model which can simulate the process water/ions transport to corrosion induced cracking.
Before coming to ETH Zurich, Zhidong was a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Scherer’s group at Princeton University, and worked on the development of supercritical drying method which can be used to dry cementitious materials without significant microstructural alteration.
Zhidong received his PhD in Structure and Materials in May 2014 from Paris-Est University/IFSTTAR in Paris. The doctoral research is a part of TRANSCEND project, supported by Marie Curie Action, EC. The title of his PhD thesis is “Modeling of sorption hysteresis and its effect on moisture transport in cementitious materials”.