Brian Uy
Head of School, School of Civil Engineering
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Brian Uy is Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of New South Wales in 2013. He has co-authored over 600 publications including over 150 journal articles. He has delivered over 250 conference papers in 35 countries, including over 60 keynote/invited lectures in 15 countries and has been involved in research in steel and composite structures for over 20 years. Brian is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committee BD32 on Composite Structures which is currently preparing the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS2327 on composite structures for buildings. He has been the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers since 2012 and the Chairman of the Australia Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) since 2015. Brian is Chief Editor (Asia-Pacific) for Steel and Composite Structures and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Constructional Steel Research and Advanced Steel Construction. He also currently serves on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Task Committee 5 on Composite Construction and the IABSE Working Commission 2 on Steel, Timber and Composite Structures
Research Interest
Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Steel Structures, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering
Biography
M.Manikandan is the Sr. Structural Engineer at Gulf Consult-Kuwait with responsibility for Designing and Construction Consultation of the tall buildings, Colleges, Shopping Complexes, Multi story Car Parks, Hospitals, Bridges and Deep Underground structures by considering the Structural requirements and adequate construct able systems to complete the projects within allocated budget and time schedule. Prior to joining Gulf Consult-Kuwait, he has worked as Structural Engineer at several companies, including RECAFCO-Kuwait, SAEED HADI ALDOOSARY EST-Saudi Arabia, Where he has completed many Precast Structures and treatment plant including the deep underground structures with heavy equipment. Notable he is in the construction industry since past 15 years and has completed many land mark projects in Kuwait as well in Saudi. He is pursuing PhD in Risk Management in International Construction Projects as an External Part time researcher with Vels University Chennai-India and expected completion on end of 2015 and He has been received Civil Engineering Degree from Kamraj University Madurai-India on April, 2000 following that he has received MBA in Project Management from Sikkim Manipal University-India in 2012
Research Interest
Designing and Construction Consultation of the tall buildings, Colleges, Shopping Complexes, Multi story Car Parks, Hospitals, Bridges and Deep Underground structures
Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
North Dakota State University
USA
Biography
Dr. Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at NDSU and is the Principal Investigator (P.I.) for Damage in Materials and Structures (DAMS) lab. Before this appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University of Notre Dame in the year 2015. Among other awards, he received 2017 NDSU student success Impact award, 2014 O.H. Ammann structural engineering fellowship and stood runner-up in 2014 computational mechanics poster competition. Dr. Ravi's research interests lie in the broad areas of damage mechanics and machine learning with applications in steel infrastructure. He co-authored 21 journal articles, presented his research work in more than 20 international conferences and delivered several invited talks at different universities. He currently serves as a P.I. on several funded research projects. He is an ad hoc reviewer for over 15 journals and has served as an invited reviewer for several funding agencies. At NDSU, he is the academic adviser for ASCE student’s body and AISC steel bridge team.
Research Interest
Dr Yellavajjala's core expertise lies in the field of experimental and theoretical mechanics. Specifically, He is interested in microstructure and micromechanics based modeling of damage in engineering materials and structures. His other interests include constitutive modeling of materials, numerical methods, sensitivity analyses of structural response, forensic failure analysis and advanced visualization techniques