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Professor David P. Thambiratnam

School of Civil and Built Environmant, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. David P. Thambiratnam):
Thevendran, V. and D. P. Thambiratnam (1986a). "Minimum weight design of cylindrical water tanks." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 23:1679-1691.
Thevendran, V. (1986b). "A numerical approach to the analysis of circular cylindrical water tanks." Computers & Structures 23(3): 379-383.
Thevendran, V. and D. P. Thambiratnam (1987). "Optimal shapes of cylindrical concrete water tanks." Computers & Structures 26(5): 805-810.
Thambiratnam D.P., Thevendran V.: Optimum vibrating shapes of beams and circular plates. J. Sound Vib. 121(1), 13–23 (1988)
Thambiratnam, D. P., V. Thevendran, S. L. Chang and S. L. Lee (1988). "Maximization of natural frequencies of cylindrical shells." Engineering Optimization 13: 85-97.
Thambiratnam, D.P . and V. Thevendran (1988). "Optimum design of conical shells for free vibration." Computers & Structures 29(1 ): 133-140.
Thevendran, V. and D. P. Thambiratnam (1988). "Minimum weight design of conical concrete water tanks." Computers & Structures 29(4): 699-704.
Thambiratnam, D. P. and Y. Zhuge (1993). "Axisymmetric free vibration analysis of conical shells." Engineering Structures 15(2): 83-89.
Thambiratnam, D. P. and V. Thevendran (1993). "Axisymmetric free vibration analysis of cylindrical shell structures using BEF analogy." Computers & Structures 43(1): 145-150.
Thambiratnam, D. P. (1993). "A simple finite element analysis of hyperboloidal shell structures." Computers & Structures 48(2): 249-254.
Tong L.Y.: Free vibration of orthotropic conical shells. Int. J. Eng. Sci. 31, 719–733 (1993)
Tan, G. H., V. Thevendran, N.C. D. Gupta and D.P. Thambiratnam (1993). "Design of reinforced concrete cylindrical water tanks for minimum material cost." Computers & Structures 48(5): 803-810.
Senthilvasan J, Thambiratnam D P and Brameld G H 1996 Dynamic response of curved box girder bridges Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. in Civil Engineering on Computer Application, Research and Practice Univ. of Bahrain (Manama: Bahrain)
Thambiratnam, D. and Zhuge, Y. [1996] “ Free vibration analysis of beams on elastic foundation,” Computers & Structures 60, 971–980.
Nasir, A.M., D.P. Thambiratnam and G. H. Brameld (1998). "Optimal design of shell structures for multi-use". First International conference on Decision making in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Canada: 1333-1344.
Ward, J., D. P. Thambiratnam and A. M. Nasir (1999). "Modelling, analysis, design and optimisation of shell structures". Seventh International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, Oxford, UK.
Nasir, A. M., D. P. Thambiratnam and G. H. Brameld (1999). "Response of axisymmetric shell structures to variation in thickness and shape". Third PIC Postgraduate Conference, OUT, Brisbane, Australia.
Nasir, A. M., D. P. Thambiratnam and G. H. Brameld (2000). "Effect of 
curvature on the response of conical shell structures". Fourth International Colloquium on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures, Crete, Greece. 


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