Min Xu

• 1993 -  PhD in Civil Engineering (Structures), by the Technical University of Construction and Architecture of Kiev, with the thesis "The Three-dimensional Stress-Strain State in Joints".

• 1986 - Graduated in Naval Engineering, by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with the dissertation "Offshore Oil Exploration Platforms”.

• Research Officer, Structure Monitoring Unit, Structures Department, LNEC, since 2006.
• Guest Research, Structure Monitoring Unit, Structures Department, LNEC, 2000 - 2006.
• Postdoctoral scholarship awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, Structural Behaviour Unit and Structure Monitoring Unit, Structures Department, 1997-2000.
• Research Trainee, Structural Behaviour Unit, Structures Department, 1997

• Bridges health monitoring
• Static and dynamic testing of bridges
• Structural behavior analysis
• Inspection and assessment of bridges

• Structural health monitoring of some bridges in Portugal: Rainha Santa Isabel Bridge (Coimbra), the New Bridge over the River Sado (Alcácer), the São João Railway Bridge (Oporto), and in Africa: Catumbela cable-stayed Bridge (Angola), 17 de Setembro Bridge (Angola), Salah Bey Viaduc (Algeria) and Ribeira D’Água Bridge (Cape Verde).
• Participation in the load testing of more than 60 bridges.
• Inspection of dozens of concrete, steel and masonry bridges.
• Participation in several research projects.

• Supervision of 3 MSc dissertations

Author or co-author of more than 160 publications, including 124 technical reports, 33 papers to scientific national and international meetings and 3 articles in national or international scientific/technical journals. Some relevant publications are listed bellow:

• Xu Min; Santos, L. Oliveira; Suleyman, Naim – "Observação e Análise do Comportamento dinâmico da Ponte Ferroviária de São João, sobre o rio Douro”, BE2016, 2 a 4 de novembro de 2016, Coimbra, Portugal
• Santos, L. Oliveira; Xu Min; Santos, Carlos; Vieira, Tiago; Roma, José – "Monitorização da integridade estrutural do Viaduto Salah Bey em Constantine, na Argélia”, BE2016, 2 a 4 de novembro de 2016, Coimbra, Portugal
• Xu Min, T. O. Santos – "Avaliação da Condição Estrutural Baseada nos Ensaios de Medições de Vibrações Ambiente”, Degrada 2016, 27 - 29 setembro 2016, Lisboa, Portugal
• Xu Min; L. O. Santos, T. Vieira – "Modal Identification of Bridges based on Continuous Dynamic Monitoring”, EWSHM 2016, July 5-8 2016, Bilbao, Spain
• Oliveira, Pedro; Xu Min; Santos, L. Oliveira; Campos, Pedro – "Ensaios da Ponte Internacional de Valença após a reabilitação dos pilares e fundações” Revista Portuguesa de Engenharia Estrutura (rpee), Série II, n.º15, pp.49- 57, Julho 2015
• Santos, L. Oliveira; Xu, Min; Santos, J.P. – "SHM of the new bridge over the River Sado in Portugal during construction”, 36th IABSE Symposium on Long Span Bridges and Roofs - Development, Design and Implementation, September 24-27, 2013, Kolkata, India
• L. Oliveira Santos, João Pedro Santos, Xu Min e Manuel Molares D’Abril – "Structural Health Monitoring of Cabala Bridge in Angola”, IABSE Conference Cairo 2012, May 7-9, 2012, Cairo, Egypt
• Xu Min; Santos, L. Oliveira – "Ensaios estáticos e dinâmicos da ponte sobre o rio Mondego na auto-estrada A17”, Revista Portuguesa de Engenharia Estrutura (rpee), Série II, n.º 5 pp.37- 44, Maio 2009
• Santos, L. Oliveira; Xu, Min – "Load Tests of a Cable-Stayed Bridge in Coimbra, Portugal”, Structural Engineering International, Vol. 17, Nº 4, pp. 337-341, Nov. 2007

• Member of the Organizing Committee of 2 national meetings