Structural engineering research
With ten academics, the UQ Structures research portfolio spans includes nearly all current and emerging structural engineering areas.Our key research areas include:
Concrete
- Low-carbon-footprint high-performance concrete
- Concrete mechanics including earlyage and fire loading behaviours
- Creep and shrinkage of concrete structures
Steel
- Advanced structural mechanics and numerical modelling including stability, nonlinear analysis, vibration of plates
- Specialist structural design problems including subsea pipelines and transmission towers
- Behaviour of high strength, coldformed, and steel structures
Design and Performance
- Hazard and risk analysis
- Structural health monitoring and structural rehabilitation
- Disaster scenario analysis including wind, hail, and flood
- Lifecycle analysis and integrated design
- Fire safety design
- Design of concrete-filled-steel-tubular columns with external confinement and internal expansive agent
Future Structures
- Timber engineering
- Emerging structural materials (including fibre-reinforced composites, hybrid composite/concrete and composite/timber structures, smart and nano materials)
- Emerging structural geometry (including origami-inspired engineering and folded structures, parametric design, and digital fabrication)
- Behaviour of structures under fire
- Energy dissipation devices and impact engineering