Xiao is an associate professor in civil engineering at Penn State. His research areas include performances of civil infrastructure and permafrost coastal erosion due to permafrost degradation in the Arctic and their sociodemographic impacts, soil erosion, geosynthetics and their applications, geotechnical earthquake engineering particularly on shake table testing and liquefaction, flow in porous media, geotechnical in situ testing, and geoenvironmental engineering. He has led collaborative and cross-disciplinary research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Interior, Departments of Transportation, and industry to address infrastructure systems’ challenges. He has published two books and more than 100 technical papers at peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports. Xiao was the chair of the Technical Committee of Soil Erosion in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute from 2011 to 2017. He is the chair of the Tenth International Conference on Scour and Erosion in 2020. He is associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and an editorial board member of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He was recipient of the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Outstanding Teaching Award and the Harry West Teaching Award in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State. Xiao is a licensed professional engineer in California and Ohio.
Research Interests:
• Performances of civil infrastructures and permafrost coastal erosion due to permafrost degradation in the Arctic and their sociodemographic impacts.
• Performances of the built environment and infrastructure (such as levees, geosynthetically-reinforced bridge abutments, subgrade, coastal infrastructures, coal slurry impoundments) under in-service conditions and natural hazard events
• Seepage and erosion
Adams, B. T., Ming Xiao, and A. Gholizadeh-Vayghan, (2021). Analytical Study of Forces on a Glass Sphere under the Effects of Fluid's Viscosity, pH, and Ionic Strength for Flow-Induced Particle Mobilization, International Journal of Geomechanics, v. 21(7), [04021110], https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0002073.
Ismail, H., Ming Xiao, S. Salam, B. Scholl, and X. Liu, (2021). Infill Mobility through Engineered Synthetic Turf on Steep Slopes, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, v. 147(8), [04021023], https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001891.
Prabhu, S., T. Qiu, M. Liew, and Ming Xiao, (2021). Effects of Lift Thickness, Backfill Material, and Compaction Energy on Utility Trench Backfill Compaction Using Hydraulic Plate Compactors, Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, v. 12(1), [04020054], https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000506.
Salam, S., Ming Xiao, A. Khosravifar, and K. Ziotopoulou, (2021). Seismic stability of coal tailings dams with spatially variable and liquefiable coal tailings using pore pressure plasticity models, Computers and Geotechnics, v. 132, [104017], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104017.
Cui, W. and Ming Xiao, (2020). Centrifuge modeling of geogrid-reinforced and rammed soil-cement column-supported embankment on soft soil, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, v. 48(5), pp. 4016-4029, https://doi.org/10.1520/JTE20170603.
Gan, L., Z. Shen, and Ming Xiao, (2020). Experimental investigation of seepage characteristics in porous rocks with a single fracture, Hydrogeology Journal, v. 28(8), pp. 2933-2946, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02224-9.
Kermani, B., Ming Xiao, and S. M. Stofels, (2020). Implementing an Analytical Framework to Quantify the Magnitude and Rate of Subgrade Pumping in Flexible Pavement, Geotechnical Special Publication, 2020-February(GSP 318), pp. 536-548, https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784482810.056.
Kermani, B., S. M. Stoffels, and Ming Xiao, (2020). Evaluation of effectiveness of geotextile in reducing subgrade migration in rigid pavement, Geosynthetics International, v. 27(1), pp. 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgein.19.00052/
Khosrojerdi, M, Ming Xiao, T. Qiu, and J. Nicks, (2020). Predictive Equation for Estimating Lateral Deformation of GRS Abutments, Geotechnical Special Publication, 2020-February(GSP 316), pp 472-482.
Khosrojerdi, M., Ming Xiao, T. Qiu, and J. Nicks, (2020). Prediction equations for estimating maximum lateral displacement and settlement of geosynthetic reinforced soil abutments, Computers and Geotechnics, v. 125, [103622], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103622.
