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School of Civil Engineering
The University of Queensland, Australia
Biography:
Sritawat Kitipornchai joined The University of Queensland in 2012 as the TMR Chair (Transport and Main Roads) and Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering. He had previously been in the Department of Civil Engineering at UQ from 1976 to 2000. He was appointed Chair Professor at The City University of Hong Kong in 2001 and was the Head of the Department of Building and Construction from 2005-2011. Aside from being Head of Department at CityU, he was also the Chairman of the Faculty/College Research Committee (2001-2009), Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) Panel (2002-2005), Advisory Committee for Research Centres and Deputy Chairman of the University Research Committee (2002-2006). As Head of Department, he expanded the Department of Building and Construction into a multi-disciplinary department, changing its name to the Department of Civil and Architectural to reflect the 5 distinct disciplines within the department. He established the disciplines of Structural, Geotechnical and Civil Engineering, and planned and developed the Heavy Structures Testing Laboratory, the Geotechnical Laboratory and a large Wind Tunnel Facility at CityU. He was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in 2009, and received the Monash University Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 2007, the inaugural UQ Physical Science and Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 1993 and the Munro Prize Award from Engineering Structures in 1993.
He is currently the Chairman of the EASEC International Steering Committee; a member of the Engineering Panel of the Hong Kong Research Grant Committee (RGC); a member of the ARC's College of Experts Panel; and a member of the Singapore NRF's CRP Expert Panel on Computer and Engineering Sciences. He is the Regional Editor (Asia-Pacific) of Engineering Structures journal (since 1993), and a member of editorial boards of many other structural engineering and engineering mechanics journals. He has close links with the steel and the transmission tower industry and the utilities in Australia and was a Director of the Australian Institute of Streel Construction (AISC) from 1993-1999. He received 6 ARC grants (4DPs and 2 Linkages) in the period 1995-2000, and 7 CERG/GRF grants in HK in the period 2001-2011. He has extensive research publications (2 patents, 8 books, 7 book chapters and 306 journal papers) and numerous conference papers including many plenary, keynote and invited papers, and has an SCI personal h-index of39. Several of the portal frame design book are widely used by students and practising engineers in Australia.
Education:
Bachlelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering (First Class honours) Monash University 1969
Doctor of Philosoply University of Sydney 1973.
Research Interests:
His research work is in structural engineering, stability, nonlinear analysis, thin-walled structures, transmission towers, cold-formed structures, structural mechanics, vibration of plates, composite structures, smart materials, structural design problems.
Selected Publications:
Kitipornchai, S. and Trahair, N.S. (1980), "Buckling Properties of Monosymmetric I-Beams", Journal of the Structural Division, ASCE, Vol. 106, No. ST5, May, pp. 941-957.
Kitipornchai S, Wang CM, Trahair NS. Buckling of monosymmetric I-beams under moment gradient. J Struct Eng, ASCE 1986;112(4):781–99.
Chan SL, Kitipornchai S. Geometric nonlinear analysis of
asymmetric thin-walled beam-columns. Eng Struct 1987;9(4):
243–54.
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Prof. Sritawat Kitipornchai
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