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School of Civil, Environmental
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Engineering North N136,
North Terrace Campus
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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The Structures Group

 

Professor Michael Griffith
Deputy Head of School
Director of Research

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • development of new technologies to improve the seismic resistance of both new and existing structures
  • methods to prevent earthquake induced damage, including collapse, of unreinforced masonry buildings
  • non-seismically designed reinforced concrete frames
  • assessing the earthquake resistance of existing and the design of new masonry walls in vertical bending
     
  Dr Mohamed Ali

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group
     
alex ng  

Dr Ching-Tai Ng

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • guided wave non-destructive evaluation
  • structural health monitoring and system identification
  • structural dynamics
  • vibration measurement and modal identification
  • structural reliability and risk analysis
  • fibre-reinforced and bio-based composite material
     
derek oehlers
  Professor Deric Oehlers

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • retrofitting by adhesively bonding steel and FRP plates
  • retrofitting rc beams and columns by bolting steel or FRP plates
  • reinforced concrete beams with fibre reinforced plastic bars
  • composite profiled slabs and beams
  • composite steel and concrete beams
     
  Dr Togay Ozbakkaloglu

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • behaviour, design, and retrofit of earthquake-resistant concrete structures
  • behaviour and design of FRP reinforced concrete structural members
  • confinement of normal- and high-strength concrete columns by FRP composites
  • use of concrete-filled FRP tubes as earthquake-resistant columns for new construction
     
 hamed sheikh  

Associate Professor Ahmed Abdul Sheikh

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group


     
  Dr Craig Willis

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • earthquake reliability study
  • retrofitting unreinforced masonry walls using adhesively bonded fibre reinforced polymer strips
     
  Dr Chengqing Wu

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group

  • response of structures to underground blast induced ground vibrations
  • damage and collapse analysis of structures to surface blast loads
  • blast resistance of ultra-high performance concrete
  • mitigation of blast effects on RC and masonry structures
  • retrofit masonry structures against blast loads FRP confined concrete under impact loads
     
   

Adjunct Staff

     
  Dr Kenneth Moxham, Visiting Research Fellow

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group
     
  Emeritus Professor Robert Warner

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group
     
   

Research Associates

     

matthew hasket

 

Dr Matthew Haskett, Research Associate

Research group and areas of interest:
The Structures Group