1. Multi-scale research of microstructure and macroscopic property
2.Discrete Element Numerical simulation research
1. Yingfan Gu, YI Lu, Bing Liu. Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Based on Discrete Element Method. Geological Journal of China Universities, 2016, 22(1):194-199.
2.Yingfan Gu, Chun Liu, Bin Shi, Jinghong Wu, Chunhui Zhou. The analysis of the microstructure and thmechanical properties of land subsidence area in Suzhou, China. Journal of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering. 2017
3.Qiang Tang, Chun Liu, Yingfan Gu, Bin Shi. Study on microstructure identification and statistical method of the soil SEM image. Journal of Guilin University of Technology. 2017.
4. Chun Liu, Qiang Xu, Bin Shi, Yingfan Gu. Digital Image Recognition Method of Particle and Pore System in Rock and the Application. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 2016. (EI)
专利：一种岩石孔隙和颗粒系统的计算机数字图像识别方法. 201510670728.X. 刘春 施斌 顾颖凡 顾凯
专利：一种砂土压缩过程微观结构提取方法 201610167738 .6刘春 顾凯 刘兵 施斌 顾颖凡 舒荣军 张晓宇
专利：考虑膜效应的岩土体三轴试验的离散元建模及数值模拟方法 201710636809.7刘春，张晓宇，乐天呈，施斌，张丹，顾颖凡，朱晨光