Prof. Kan Qianhua’s team have recently published two papers in International Journal of Fatigue after they have completed strain and stress fatigue experiments on carbide-free bainite rail steels under different heat-treatment conditions and studied the effect of microstructure and retained austenite (RA) on the ratchetting-fatigue interaction from the macro and micro levels respectively.​Fig...

On March 25, Professor Lu Qibing’s team won the second prize of the Science and Technology Award with their project “the application of complete technology and equipment for rail flash-butt welding on high-speed seamless rail” at the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Awarding Conference.Before 2006, China had to rely completely on high-priced imports of rail flash-butt welding equipm...

Recently, Prof. Kan Qianhua’s team made a breakthrough in the contact stability of functionally gradient materials of thermo-mechanical coupling. The result, a thesis named “Thermo-mechanically coupled sliding contact shakedown analysis of functionally graded coating-substrate structures”, has been published in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (the top ranking according to the Ch...

On March 25th, 2022, the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Awarding Conference was held in Chengdu. Prof. Wang Yong’s team at the School of Materials Science and Engineering won the second prize of 2021 Sichuan Technological Invention Award with their project of “Technologies and Applications of Strengthening-toughening and Functionalizing Multicomponent Polymeric Materials”.They inv...

Recently, a paper “TraSS: Efficient Trajectory Similarity Search Based on Key-Value Data Stores”, completed by Prof. Zheng Yu and Li Tianrui’s team from the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, was accepted by the 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), a top international conference in the field of database, data mining and content retrieval in computer sc...

On March 28, the Ministry of Education held a launching ceremony for the platform of smart education of China. Huai Jinpeng, the minister of Education, announced the official operation of the platform – Smart Education of China·Higher Education. 139 courses offered by the University are among the first batch uploaded online.  The national integrated platform of open online courses is sponsored...

Recently, the latest research results from the School of Electrical Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University were published in the top journals of information and control, such as IEEE TSMC (IF: 13.451), Automatica and IEEE TIM. The results include Robust Adaptive Least Mean M-Estimate Algorithm for Censored Regression, Robust Stable Iterated Unscented Kalman Filter Based on Maximum Corrent...

Recently, Prof. Meng Tao’s team published a paper “Highly efficient water harvesting of bioinspired spindle-knotted microfibers with continuous hollow channels” (DOI: 10.1039/D2TA00242F) in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF: 12.732).Fog, a potential source of freshwater, can be utilized to cope with global freshwater crisis. In the morning after the rain or in a humid corner, a large numb...

In January 2022, 35 people throughout China were enlisted among the tenth group of “National Engineering Investigation and Design Master” nominated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. Seven of them are the alumni of Southwest Jiaotong University. They are:Zhang Haibo, class of 1983, the Programme of Tunnel and Underground Railway; Wu Kefe...

On 13 January 2022, SWJTU's Geosciences have entered the top 1% of the ESI world ranking for the first time, according to the latest edition of Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database (covering the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 October 2021).As of January 2022, six disciplines of the University, including Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, S...

​In January 2022, 35 people throughout China were enlisted among the tenth group of “National Engineering Investigation and Design Master” nominated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. Seven of them are the alumni of Southwest Jiaotong University. They are:Zhang Haibo, class of 1983, the Programme of Tunnel and Underground Railway;Wu Kef...

On 13 January 2022, SWJTU's Geosciences have entered the top 1% of the ESI world ranking for the first time, according to the latest edition of Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database (covering the period from 1 January 2011 to 31 October 2021).As of January 2022, six disciplines of the University, including Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, S...