People
Group picture (June 2023)
Group Leader
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Dr Christian Málaga-Chuquitaype
Location
322
Skempton Building
South Kensington Campus
Affiliations
Emerging Structural Technologies and Design
Imperial College London
Group Members
Ashraf Nayel
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Ashraf Nayel
Benha (Egypt), Cairo (Egypt)
Project: Advanced protective solutions for historic buildings
Atif Rasheed
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Atif Rasheed
BUET (Pakistan),NUST (Pakistan) Project: Low-cost seismic isolation
Carlos Melchor Placencia
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Carlos Melchor Placencia
UNI (Peru),PUC-Rio (Brazil)
Project: Advanced modelling of long-term effects in wood
Eknara Junda
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Eknara Junda
King Mongkut (Thailand)
Project: Seismic response of timber structures through data science methods
Faridah Zahra
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Faridah Zahra
ITB (Indonesia), Aberdeen (UK)
Project: Advanced seismic response control of steel structures
Opeyemi Ogunkuade
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Opeyemi Ogunkuade
Are Babalola (Nigeria), AUST (Kenya)
Project: Generative design for low carbon footprint structures
Shirley Shen
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Shirley Shen
Bristol (UK),Imperial (UK)
Project: Physics-informed AI predictions of nonlinear responses
Yang (Jerzy) Zhao
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Yang (Jerzy) Zhao
UST (China), Tongji(China) Project: Structural design of extra-terrestrial structures
Yixuan Zhang
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Yixuan Zhang
Southwest (China), Leeds (UK), Imperial (UK)
Project: Optimisation of rocking structures
Yu Cheng
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Yu Cheng
HK Poly (HK), Imperial (UK)
Project: Nonlinear instabilities in metamaterials for vibration control
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Visiting Students
- Rajib Biswas, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Research project: Seismic performance evaluation of deteriorating RC structures
- Daniele Reale, Politecnico di Bari (Italy), Research project: Seismic response of steel buildings
MSc Students
- Nicolas Metz, Electro-mechanical analogies of rocking structures
- Joonas Alliksaar, Experimental accuracy of low-cost image-based strain measurements in wood
- Heinrich Hummel, Structural assessment through damping identificaiton
- Christos Alamir, Wind induced vibrations of tall timber buildings
MEng Students
- Abdallah Almanzalawy, Seismic damage identification and localization: shake table tests and real earthquake
- In-Lord Enogh Lee, Topology optimization for reduced embodied carbon design
- Elizabeth Yang, Opensource digitally-manufactured zero carbon buidlings
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Alumni - PhD graduates
- Leena Kibriya (2020), Damage avoidance self-centring steel rocking frames
- Rodrigo Thiers Moggia (2020), Seismic control of rocking structures using inereters ★ Unwin Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Department
- Zhan Lyu (PhD 2020), Design and structural response of under-deck cable-stayed timber-concrete composite (TCC) bridges
- Adeyanju Teslim-Balogun (PhD 2020), Structural performance of steel buildings under travelling fires and blast
- Cagatay Demirci (PhD 2019), Seismic response of multi-storey cross laminated timber buildings
- Luis Fernando Sirumbal Zapata (PhD 2019), Advanced damage modelling for the seismic assessment of timber structures
- Vasileios Karagiannis (PhD 2017), Behaviour of hybrid timber-steel beam-to-column connections
Alumni - MSc
- Pei Zhang (MSc 2019), Low-cost open-source dynamic testing
- Sebastian Aedo Maluje (MSc 2019), Seismic response of timber structures ★ Dissertation won the Basu Prize in Civil Engineering
- Junjia Lyu (MSc 2019), Structural monitoring through complex vibration modes
- Qianxi Zhang (MSc 2019), Seismic response of structures with first and second kind similarities
- Catalina Meza (MSc 2019), Digitally-manufactured wooden beams for optimized dynamic performance
- Emily Peper (MSc 2018), Progressive collapse analysis of cross laminated timber structures ★ Dissertation won First Prize for MSc research from the IStructE
- Jingren Wu (MSc 2018), Seismic response of tall and slender steel structures
- Manousos Psaltakis (MSc 2017), Assessment of acceleration demands through low-order building models
- Hend Tubaila (MSc 2017), Equivalent viscous damping for performance-based design of rocking CLT walls
- Xiao Pan (MSc 2017), External resonators for seismic control of monumental structures
- Yiwei Hu (MSc, 2017), Influence of alternative degradation modelling strategies on the seismic response of RC columns
- Mohammed Abdelhadi (MSc 2016), Avanced Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) stability systems, in collaboration with Ramboll UK
- Manon Dangelser (MSc 2016), Impact of building type on seismic losses considering environmental costs
- Yara Achcouty (MSc 2016), Modelling fatigue induced collapse of RC bridge piers
- Bryan Carroll (MSc 2015), Performance of Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) subjected to fires
- Konstantinos Bougatsas (MSc 2015), Probabilistic seismic assessment of alternative building systems.
- Shijia Yang (MSc 2015), Interaction between ground motion characteristics and structural model in nonlinear dynamic analysis.
- Ishan Abeisekara (MSc 2014), Dynamic response of tall timber buildings. ★ First Prize for MSc research from the IStructE
- Katerina Zographou (MSc 2014), Dimensional response analysis of regular and irregular RC frames
Alumni - MEng
- Jad Maqdah, Artificial Intelligence applied to the design of extraterrestrial structures ★ Best Structures Project ★ Basu Prize in Civil Engineering
- Thomas McLean, Optimal design of long span structures in low gravity conditions ★ Best Structures Project
- Reema Ismail, Advanced modelling of the mechano-sorptive behaviour of wood
- Marco Lok Fung Cheng (MEng 2017), Motion control through supplemental rotational inertia
- Jeremy Ilkanaev (MEng 2017), Dynamic behaviour of digitally-manufactured wooden beams with integrated resonators
- Paul Zhu (MEng 2016) Structural response of robotically-fabricated jonits for CLT folded structures ★ Best Poster IStructE
- Xiayang Zheng (MEng 2016) Seismic response of an 8-storey timber building
- Juliet Kernohan (MEng 2015) Experimental assessment of the force re-distribution in CLT panels under earthquake loads
- Clara Gomez Torres (MEng 2015) Parametric design of timber grid-shell structures: structural form-finding and optimisation
- Marcello Valerio Castelo (MEng 2015) Seismic performance of weak-base strong-column frame systems. Co-supervised with Prof Amit Kanvinde, UCDavis
- Charalambos Spanos (MEng 2014) Seismic response of alternative steel framing systems ★Best Departmental Poster Prize
Past Visiting Researchers
- Umut Almac, Seismic response of masonry structures timber-lacings. (Assist. Prof. Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
- Daia Zwicky, Wooden structures. (Head of the Institute for Building and Environmental Technologies at the Fribourg University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
- Jasmine Stragapede, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Research project: Structural implementation of inerters in steel structures
- Carlos Menéndez Vicente, RWTH Aachen (Germany), Research project: Structural implementation of motion-control devices
Past Group Photos:
Group picture (Feb 2023)