2013 Research Seminars

Date 2013    Speaker Institution Seminar Title                        
8 Mar Dr Tian-Yi Song Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Performance of CFST Column to Steel Beam Joints Subjected to Heating and Cooling Fire
14 Mar Dr Tian Sing Ng University of NSW Sustainability and Innovation in Geopolymer Concrete Construction: From Materials to Structures
22 Mar Dr Kwok Chung Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Performance Enhancement of Antenna Arrays for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring
11 Apr Dr Olivia Mirza School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics Behaviour of the Headed Stud Shear Connectors on Composite Steel-Concrete Beams under Elevated Temperatures Utilising Carbon Nanotubes
26 April Dr Won Hee Kang Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Reliability based capacity factor calibration of composite members
30 April Dr Yuliy Bludov Centro de Física, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Surface plasmon-polaritons in graphene: tunable excitation
3 May A/Prof Sergiy Kharkivskiy  Institute for Infrastructure Engineering An Embeddable Microwave Patch Antenna Module for Civil Engineering Applications
17 May Prof Kenny Kwok Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Simulation of flow characteristics and wind load effects of transient strong wind events
31 May Dr Hao Zhang University of Sydney System reliability considerations for steel design by inelastic analysis
28 June Mr Kamrul Hassan Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Analysis and Design of Semi-Rigid Frames in a Composite Structure
12 July Dr Kwok Chung Institute for Infrastructure Engineering A Study of Mutual Coupling Between Wideband Circularly Polarized Wang-Shaped Patch Antennas
26 July Mr Ali Razzazzadeh Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Heat transfer analysis of hybrid stainless-carbon steel beam-column joints
2 Aug  Dr Jinhai Li  Kunming University of Science and Technology  Nonlinear vibrations of cables of Cable-stayed bridges and vibration control systems 
7 Aug Dr Ken Tokeshi Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Synthetic Rayleigh Dispersion Curves of a Planar Surface layer and Inclined Baserock 
7 Aug  Professor Gangbing Song  University of Houston  Recent Advances in Smart Aggregate Research 
13 Aug  A/Prof Yan Yu  Dalian University of Technology  Design, Calibration and Some Applications of Wireless Sensors and Their Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures 
23 Aug A/Prof Sergiy Kharkivskiy Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Microwave sensor technologies for structural health monitoring of infrastructure 
13 Sep Dr Chunwei Zhang Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Structural Swinging Motion Control 
20 Sep Mr Mohamed Ghannam Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Fire Tests of Concrete Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns 
4 Oct Dr Yaping He School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics The use of lifts for emergency evacuation - a reliability study 
8 Oct  Dr Y.X. (Sarah) Zhang  University of New South Wales  Mechanical and high velocity impact behavior of a new hybrid fibre reinforced cementitious composite 
18 Oct A/Prof Zhong Tao  Institute for Infrastructure Engineering Refined FE model for concrete-filled steel stub columns under axial compression
8 Nov Dr Xinqun Zhu School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics Recent Advances on Moving Force Identification in Structural Dynamics 
22 Nov Dr Ee Loon  School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics Multi-Span Composite Beams subjected to combined flexure and torsion
4 Dec  Prof Robert Meroney  Colorado State University, USA (1) Fire Whirls, Fire Tornadoes and Firestorms:  Physical and Numerical Modelling, (2) CFD Prediction of Dense Gas Clouds Spreading in a Mock Urban Environment 
6 Dec  Dr Fidelis Mashiri  School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics  Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints