Structural Engineering
Structural engineers are responsible for engineering design and structural analysis, with practitioners most often specializing in a particular area of structures such as bridge or building engineering, or mega-urban and/or industrial structures. In the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, research investigation in structural engineering is more broadly encompassed under seven key sub-categories: assessment and rehabilitation, bridge design, concrete structures, infrastructure and critical infrastructure resilience, seismic resilience, steel structures, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, and timber structures.
Facilities & Institutes
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Related Faculty
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Aryan Rezaei Rad
Assistant ProfessorSustainable Structures (Timber): Structural systems design with sustainable materials; computational methods & digital technology design
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Constantin Christopoulos
ProfessorCritical Resilience: Development of self-centering seismic resistant systems
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Evan Bentz
ProfessorNumerical Modelling of Reinforced Concrete Behaviour: Technology transfer applications for research on shear and torsion
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Fae Azhari
Assistant ProfessorStructural Health Monitoring: Sensor development/intelligent structures and systems
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Frank Vecchio
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Jeffrey Packer
ProfessorSteel Structures: Experimentation and analysis of behaviour and design of tubular steel structures
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Oh-Sung Kwon
ProfessorStructural Dynamics: Earthquake engineering; seismic soil-structure interaction
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Oya Mercan
ProfessorSeismic Resilience: Development of advanced simulation techniques to assess seismic activity of structures
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Paul Gauvreau
ProfessorBridge Design: Development of new bridge systems; efficient use of new materials, and emerging reinforcement materials in bridge design
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Shamim Sheikh
ProfessorSeismic Resilience: Behaviour and design of reinforced concrete structures; performance-based seismic design