Zumikon, Zurich, Switzerland
- Design of R/C buildings incl. prestressed and prefabricated elements - Conversion & retrofitting of existing R/C buildings - Earthquake assessment of existing R/C buildings - Reviewer's mandate for deterministic & probabilistic earthquake safety analyses of nuclear power plants - Reviewer's mandate for conversions of nuclear power plants and related structures - Modelling Soil-Structure-Interaction phenomena in time-domain - Proposal of extension to code guidelines for the shear capacity of squat R/C shear walls
- Structural analysis and assessment of existing R/C and steel buildings due to pile interception from the extension of underground tunnels - Involvement in structural design of permanent and temporary works of R/C and steel buildings - Preliminary analysis of masonry viaduct subjected to ground movements - Analysis of construction stages of steel structure - Study of long-term shrinkage and creep of 52,335 m2 concrete slab. - Study of impact of core post-tensioning on allowable steelwork erection tolerances.
- Demonstration of laboratory exercises for Structural Mechanics (BEng level) 2016-17 - Assistance with delivering Matlab tutorials (BEng level) 2016-17 - Software presentation “Introduction to SAP2000” on MSc level, 2014-16 - Preparation and delivery of tutorials, preparation, support and assessment of coursework for Design of Concrete Structures (MSc Level), 2013-17 - Demonstration of laboratory exercises for Static Equilibrium Laboratory (Foundation year), 2013-17 Associated Software: SAP2000, Matlab
Title: “Modelling the Post-Peak Response of Existing Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures Subjected to Seismic Loading” Seismic Engineering and Reinforced Concrete Structures. - Designed, drafted structural drawings, planned (time; budget), fabricated (supervised technicians), and tested in quasi-static cyclic loading 6 flexure-shear critical cantilever R/C columns. Investigated for the first time the phenomenon of shear failure localisation and the impact of vertical load increase on the post-peak response of shear damaged members - Developed the first local shear hysteretic model, accounting for shear failure localisation, extending up to the detection of axial collapse - Developed a beam-column model for substandard R/C columns extending to the detection of axial collapse, considering shear-flexure interaction, spread of flexural and shear inelasticity, anchorage slip deformations, and shear failure localisation - Proposed empirical relationships for (1) inclination of full-depth shear diagonal failure planes, (2) post-shear-failure in-cycle strength degradation, and (3) shear deformation localised at shear damaged region at axial collapse - Proposed for the first time empirical classification criteria for the identification of columns susceptible to simultaneous shear and axial failure, without the need for rigorous analysis of the entire structure or even individual columns Software/programming languages used: IDARC2D, RCCOLA.NET, R, FORTRAN, Matlab
Steel bridge and power plant design & construction: - Involvement in structural analysis, establishment of assembly concepts, and drafting of drawings for steel and composite bridges at the bid phase - Execution of structural research work on temporary steel structures for steel/composite bridges - Design of steel connections and working on bill of materials for a steel power plant Software used: RSTAB, AutoCAD