Abstract:

This presentation will highlight a significant program of research that has been undertaken at the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and Western Sydney University over the last decade, namely in the area of the application of High Strength, Ultra High Strength Steels and Stainless Steels in composite construction applications. Aspects relating to strength, stability and ductility and the important areas of behaviour and design of composite beams, columns and joints will be summarised as part of this presentation. Emerging research into the aspects of clad steels and composite shear walls will also be presented and their potential applications will be discussed. The paper provides a thorough review of the fundamental issued explored, the experimental programmes carried out and the computational analyses which have been calibrated with the experiments.  Parametric studies have then been carried out and the results compared with existing Australian and International Standards in Steel and Composite Structures.  Proposed revisions to Australian and International Standards have then been made to take advantage of these new findings.  The paper provides a comprehensive set of references, outlining each of the studies.

Bio:

Prof Brian Uy is Scientia Professor of Structural Engineering at The University of New South Wales. He is the Chairman of the Standards Australia Committees BD32 on Composite Structures for Buildings and BD-90-Part 6 on Steel and Composite Structures for Bridges.  He is Chief Editor (Asia-Pacific) for the journal Steel and Composite Structures and he is the current Vice President (Australasia and South-East Asia) of The Institution of Structural Engineers (2022-2024) and Vice President of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering, (2023-2026).

Open to all. Attendees external to Imperial need to register. 

Time: 11:00 am