On the morning of June 12, 2024, Professor Wout Broere from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Dr. Zhang Xuehui from Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited our institution for exchange. Academician Chen Xiangsheng, Dean of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering and the Future Underground City Research Institute of Shenzhen University, presided over the meeting. Vice Dean Professor Su Dong, Professor Wang Shuying, and relevant professional teachers jointly met with the guests. The exchange meeting was held in Room 1007, Zhili Building, Yuehai Campus (South District), and more than 30 doctoral and master's students attended.

Professor Wout Broere gave an academic presentation titled "Smart Monitoring of Tunnels".

The report provides an overview of monitoring tools and experience sharing in different projects, including the application of various sensors and the implementation of automated and real-time online data collection. These technologies not only improve the convenience and accuracy of monitoring, but also expand their application scope in construction safety, tunnel operation control, and structural health assessment.

Dr. Zhang Xuehui gave an academic report titled "Optimizing Structural Health Monitoring of Immersed Tunnel with Distributed Fiber Optics Sensing (DFOS)".

The report explores the safety monitoring issues of the entire life cycle of immersed tube tunnels, emphasizes the limitations of traditional settlement monitoring methods in modern structural health assessment, and proposes distributed fiber optic technology as an optimized monitoring scheme, which can achieve long-term and short-term data collection, effectively capturing the three-dimensional spatial deformation of immersed tube tunnels under the influence of tides and long-term settlement.

Academician Chen Xiangsheng warmly welcomed and sincerely thanked Professor Wout Broere and Dr. Zhang Xuehui for their arrival, and shared the development history, current situation, and future plans of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering and the Future Underground City Research Institute of Shenzhen University. The focus was on the construction of high-level talent teams, discipline construction, research platform construction, and cutting-edge technology exploration in the college. We look forward to conducting multi-dimensional exchanges and cooperation in the future to promote scientific and technological innovation and development.

At the exchange meeting, attendees had in-depth discussions with Professor Wout Broere and Dr. Zhang Xuehui, discussing the application prospects of intelligent monitoring and resilience maintenance technology in the field of civil engineering, hoping to achieve more scientific research and technological breakthroughs in this field in the future.

After the meeting, Associate Researcher Shen Jun accompanied Professor Wout Broere and Dr. Zhang Xuehui to visit the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Construction and Maintenance of Extreme Environment Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering.

Subsequently, we jointly visited the prefabricated underground structure full-scale testing equipment and other instruments and equipment of the Shenzhen University Tieke Gangchuang Prefabricated Underground Structure Joint Laboratory.