Researcher

Associate Professor Mario Maria Paul Attard

My Expertise

High strength concrete; buckling of reinforced concrete walls; buckling of thin - walled steel structures

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Structural Engineering

Biography

Honorary Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests

  • Finite Strain Isotropic and Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modeling

  •  Modelling of Biological Material

  • Plasticity Modelling of Confined Concrete

  • Fracture in Concrete and Masonry

  • Crack Propagation due to Creep

  • Ductility of High Strength Concrete Columns

  • In-Plane Buckling of Gas Pipelines

  • Lateral Buckling of Variable Section...view more

Honorary Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests

  • Finite Strain Isotropic and Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modeling

  •  Modelling of Biological Material

  • Plasticity Modelling of Confined Concrete

  • Fracture in Concrete and Masonry

  • Crack Propagation due to Creep

  • Ductility of High Strength Concrete Columns

  • In-Plane Buckling of Gas Pipelines

  • Lateral Buckling of Variable Section Thin-Walled Beams


My Qualifications

BE PhD MHEd


My Awards

R W Chapman Medal, October 1997, paper “A Rectangular Stress Block for High Strength Concrete based on Probabilistic Analysis".

Vice Chancellor Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009.


My Research Activities

Nonlinear structural mechanics, buckling, confinement in concrete, ductility in structures, hyperelastic constitutive modelling, finite strain mechanics, biological material modelling.


My Teaching

Mechanics of Solids; Design of Prestressed Concrete; Design of Timber Structures;

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Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Level 7, TBA
Kensington Campus

Contact

TBA
(+61 2) 9385 6139