Soil deformation and failure processes, Landslide mechanism and landslide hazard assessment, Debris flow hazard and risk assessment

HKIE Geotechnical Paper of the Year 2001 Award.
Golden Hammer Award, the China Geological Society.
Second Grade Award of Hunan Provincial Year-2007 Outstanding Engineering Consulting, Hunan Society of Engineering Consulting.

（1）Principal Investigator, Deformation mechanism and stability assessment of the slopes in Yanjin Transformer Substation, funded by the Yunnan Electric Power Design Institute.
（2）Principal Investigator, A comprehensive engineering geological study of cut slopes along western Hunan Section of the Changde-Jishou Expressway, funded by the Changde-Jishou Expressway Construction and Development Co. Ltd.
（3）Principal Investigator, A comprehensive engineering geological study of Roadbed, tunnels and slopes along the Rucheng-Chenzhou Expressway, funded by the Rucheng-Chenzhou Expressway construction and Development Co. Ltd.
（4）Principal Investigator, GIS-based landslide information system for the Xiangjiaba Hydroelectric Station, funded by the Central-south Design and Research Institute for Hydroelectric Projects, State Power Corporation of China.
（5）Principal Investigator, Remote sensing of geological structures and environmental geology in the reservoir area of Benzilan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River, funded by the Central-south Design and Research Institute for Hydroelectric Projects, State Power Corporation of China.
（6）Principal Investigator, Remote sensing of geological structures and environmental geology in the reservoir area of Bijiang Hydropower Station on the Nujiang River, funded by the Central-south Design and Research Institute for Hydroelectric Projects, State Power Corporation of China.
（7）Principal Investigator, Remote sensing of geological structures and environmental geology in the reservoir area of Lawa Hydropower Station on the Jinshajiang River, funded by the Central-south Design and Research Institute for Hydroelectric Projects, State Power Corporation of China.
（8）Principal Investigator, A study of the mechanism of landslide initiation and landslide prediction, funded by the Hundreds Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
（9）Principal Investigator, Causative mechanism of loess/terrace landslides with a long runout distance, funded by the University of Hong Kong as a cooperative research project between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Hong Kong.
（10）Principal Investigator, Scenario-based modeling of rainfall-induced debris flow hazard, funded by the Research Grants of Council of Hong Kong (RGC).
（11）Principal Investigator, A spatio-temporal approach to landslide hazard modelling using GIS technology and multi-temporal aerial photographs, funded by the Jockey Club Research and Information Centre for Landslip Prevention and Land Development at the University of Hong Kong.
（12）Co-Investigator, Field monitoring and numerical modeling of hydrological processes of a hillslope prone to landsliding, funded by the Research Grants of Council of Hong Kong (RGC) (PI: Prof. L.G. Tham).
（13）Co-Investigator, Effects of reservoir level fluctuations on reactivation of large-sized landslides in reservoir areas, funded by the Research Grants of Council of Hong Kong (RGC) (PI: Prof. C.F. Lee).

Over 70 technical papers have been published in journals and conferences, of which, over 20 have been published in the international journals (for details, refer to list of publications). First-authored SCI international journal papers have been cited for over 400 times by others.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
（1）        Dai FC, Liu YH, Wang SJ. Urban geology: a case study of Tongchuan city, Shaanxi Province, China. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 1994, 38: 165-175.

（2）        Dai FC, Lee CF, Wang SJ. Analysis of slide-debris flows on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 1999, 51: 279-290.

（3）        Dai FC, Lee CF, Wang SJ,, Feng YY. Stress-strain behavior of a loosely compacted volcanic-derived soil and its significance to fill slope failures. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 1999, 53: 359-370.

（4）        Dai FC, Lee CF. Frequency-volume relation and prediction of rainfall-induced landslides. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 2001, 59: 253-266.

（5）        Dai FC, Lee CF, Zhang XH. GIS-based geo-environmental evaluation for urban land use planning: a case study. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 2001, 61: 257-271.

（6）        Dai FC, Lee CF, Ngai YY. Landslide risk assessment and management: an overview. Engineering Geology (An International Journal) 2002, 64: 65-87.

（7）        Dai FC, Lee CF, Li J, Xu ZW. Assessment of landslide susceptibility on the natural terrain of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Environmental Geology, 40(3): 381-391.

（8）        Dai FC，Deng JH, Tham LG, Law KT, Lee CF. A large landslide in Zigui County, Three Gorges area. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 2004, 41(6): 1233-1240.

（9）        Dai FC, Lee CF. Terrain-based mapping of landslide susceptibility using a Geographic Information System: a case study. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 2001, 38(5): 911-923.

（10）    Dai FC, Lee CF, Deng JH, Tham LG. The 1786 earthquake-triggered landslide dam and subsequent dam-break flood on the Dadu River, southwestern China. Geomorphology 2005, 65: 205-221.

（11）    Dai FC, Lee CF, Deng JH, Tham LG. The 1786 earthquake-triggered landslide dam and subsequent dam-break flood on the Dadu River, southwestern China - reply. Geomorphology 2006, 73: 277-278.

（12）    Dai FC, Lee CF. Landslide characteristics and slope instability modeling using GIS. Geomorphology 2002, 42(3-4): 213-228.

（13）    Dai FC, Lee CF, Wang SJ. Characterization of rainfall-induced landslides. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 (23): 4817-4834.

（14）    Dai FC, Lee CF. Landslides on natural terrain: physical characteristics and susceptibility mapping. Mountain Research and Development, 2002, 22(1): 40-47.

（15）    Dai FC, Lee CF. A spatiotemporal probabilistic modelling of storm-induced shallow landsliding using airphotos and logistic regression. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2003, 28: 527–545.

（16）    Dai FC, Tham LG, Lee CF, Ng KC, Shum WL. Logistic regression modeling of storm-induced shallow landsliding in time and space on natural terrain of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 2004, 63: 315-327.

（17）    Huang ZQ, Dai FC, Jiang XC, Wang SJ, Li HY, Liu HD. Determination of shear strength of a rock mass at Baoquan Pumped Storage Power Station. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 1999, 57(3): 267-272.

（18）    Zhang SX, Chan LS, Chen CY, Dai FC, Shen XK, Zhong H. Apparent phase velocities and fundamental mode phase velocities of Rayleigh waves. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2003, 23: 563-569.

（19）    Tu XB, Dai FC, Lu XJ and Zhong HY. Toppling and stabilization of the intake slope for the Fengtan Hydropower Station enlargement project, Mid-South China. Engineering Geology (An International Journal), 2007, 91: 152-167.

（20）    Tu XB, Kwong AKL, Dai FC, Tham LG, Min H. Field monitoring of rainfall infiltration in a loess slope and analysis of failure mechanism of rainfall-induced landslides. Engineering Geology 2008 (Accepted).

（21）    Yao X, Tham LG, Dai FC. Landslide susceptibility mapping based on Support Vector Machine: A case study on natural slopes of Hong Kong, China. Geomorphology 2008, 101(4): 572-582.

（22）    Chen J, Dai FC, Yao X. Holocene debris-flow deposits and their implications on the climate in the upper Jinsha River valley, China. Geomorphology 2008, 93(3-4): 493-500.