Doctor Utsab Katwal
Biography
Dr Utsab Katwal is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering (CIE), Western Sydney University (WSU). Prior to this role, Dr Katwal worked as Research Assistant for Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) project, and Australian Research Council (ARC) project between 2020 and 2022, at CIE. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney between 2019 and 2021. Dr Katwal received his PhD in Infrastructure Engineering from Western Sydney University (WSU) in 2018. He has published scholarly articles in the areas of steel-concrete composite structures, structural fire engineering, and value-added products from coal tailings in Q1 journals. He is currently co-supervising four PhD students at WSU. He has supervised more than 50 Master’s Degree/ Undergraduate students for their final year thesis/project.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Concrete-filled steel tubular columns.
Advanced analysis and design of steel-concrete composite structures.
Experimental and numerical investigation of composite columns, beam-columns, beams, and connections.
Experimental and numerical investigation for fire performance of columns.
Concrete technology including high strength concrete, geopolymer concrete, concrete incorporating waste glass.
Value added products from coal tailings.
Fire protection coatings for structural members.
Selected Publications
Utsab Katwal, Tariq Aziz, Zhong Tao, Brian Uy, Daniel Rahme; Tests of circular geopolymer concrete-filled steel tubular columns under ambient and fire conditions; Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 196 (2022) 107393.
Utsab Katwal, Atousa Khazaie, Miingtiem Yong, Soheil Jahandari, Mohammad Babla, David Osborne, Alistair Harriman, Zhonghua Chen, Zhong Tao; Value-added products from coal tailings; Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP), Report no. C29057 (2022).
Zhong Tao, Utsab Katwal, Brian Uy, Wen-Da Wang; Simplified nonlinear analysis of rectangular concrete-filled steel tubular columns, Journal of Structural Engineering; ASCE, 147 (2021) 04021061.
Xingqiang Wang, Zhong Tao, Utsab Katwal, Chou Hu; Stress-strain models for high strength steels, Journal of Constructional Steel Research; 186 (2021) 106879.
Utsab Katwal, Zhong Tao, Md Kamrul Hassan, Brian Uy, Dennis Lam; Load sharing mechanism between shear studs and profiled steel sheeting in push tests; Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 174(11) (2020) 106279.
Md Kamrul Hassan, Zhong Tao, Utsab Katwal; Behaviour of through-plate connections to concrete-filled stainless steel columns; Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 171(8) (2020) 106142.
Utsab Katwal, Zhong Tao, Md Kamrul Hassan; Finite element modelling of steel-concrete composite beams with profiled steel sheeting; Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 146(7) (2018) 1-15.
Utsab Katwal, Zhong Tao, Md Kamrul Hassan, Wen-Da Wang; Simplified numerical modelling of axially loaded circular concrete-filled steel stub columns; Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 143(12) (2017) 04017169.
