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Center for Advanced Structural Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
The University of Sydney
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Prof. Tim J. Wilkinson
Autobiography:
"Structural steel is used as the 'skeleton' that supports buildings and bridges. Columns and beams of steel are held together with connections made from bolts and welds, and we need to ensure that these components and the connections between them do not buckle or break. As technology advances we are increasingly able to make thinner and stronger steel beams, but this can sometime induce new and different types of buckles to develop. My research considers how new shapes and strengths of steel beams will behave. Will they buckle in the same way as older, thicker beams, or do we need to consider new types of failure that we must avoid? Some of my work is carried out in our structures laboratory, using hydraulic machines that can place heavy loads onto beams and columns to simulate what they experience in a real building or bridge. I record how they behave under these loads, and then analyse these results on a computer. My research allows me to use a combination of engineering knowledge, mathematical skills and common sense to find solutions to engineering challenges, but it's my teaching that gets me most excited. I've taught more than 2000 civil engineering students over the past 15 years, and those students have gone on to design and build hundreds of buildings, bridges, roads and tunnels. I like to think that I've had an influence on them and given them some of the theoretical and practical grounding that has enabled them to become so successful."
Research Interests:
Behaviour, design and connections in cold-formed structural steel hollow sections and open sections; steel connections; welding; finite element analysis; internet; improving learning and teaching outcomes in engineering; Structural Behaviour of Hollow Flange Channels; Local Buckling of Structural Steel Hollow Sections; Connections in Steel Structures and Floor Vibrations in High Rise Buildings.
Activities:
Conference Secretary of CIMS2008 (5th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures)
Technical Expert for CIDECT (Comite International pour le Developpement et l'Etude de la Construction Tubulaire)
2006-2007: Australian Steel Institute: Professional Development Lectures - AS 4100 Steel Design Refresher Course - Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne
Member of Standards Australia Committee WD003, Welded Structures
Selected Publications:
Book:
Rasmussen K. and Wilkinson T. (Editors), Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures CIMS2008, University Publishing Service, The University of Sydney, 2008
Zhao, X., Wilkinson, T., Hancock, G., Cold-Formed Tubular Members and Connections: Structural Behaviour and Design. Sydney: Elsevier, 2005, 240 pages.
Journal Articles, etc:
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