Researcher

Dr Ali Kashani

My Expertise

Sustainability in Construction

Waste valorisation and circular economy

Carbon utilisation and minerlisation

Construction 3D printing

Geopolymer concrete

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Construction Materials, Construction Engineering

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Biography

Dr Ali Kashani is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Concrete and 3D printing and a Churchill Fellow in Construction 3D Printing with extensive experience in research, development, and commercialisation of advanced and sustainable construction materials. One of his research area is 'Construction Automation' via development of novel high-performance materials and techniques for robot-aimed construction including 3D printing. His other main area...view more

Dr Ali Kashani is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Concrete and 3D printing and a Churchill Fellow in Construction 3D Printing with extensive experience in research, development, and commercialisation of advanced and sustainable construction materials. One of his research area is 'Construction Automation' via development of novel high-performance materials and techniques for robot-aimed construction including 3D printing. His other main area of research is sustainable construction materials for 'Circular Economy' including wastes valorisation, carbon capturing and mineralisation, low-carbon construction materials, sustainable concrete, and alkali-activated materials (geopolymers).


My Grants

Selected major grants:

- Ali Kashani  Experimental and numerical analysis for structural and durability optimisation of 3D printed concrete walls in single- and double-story houses printed in different climates   Direct research contract funded by Contour 3D

- Ali Kashani  Developing a mortar for 3D printing using a gantry system  Direct research contract funded by Contour 3D

- Ali Kashani, Taehwan Kim, and Stephen Foster  Development of Sustainable Concrete with Glass Waste Mixes  An Innovation Connection Grant by XL Concrete and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

- Tuan Ngo and Ali Kashani   Demonstration and developing VicRoads’ specification for use of waste glass in concrete  Funded through a competitive R&D scheme of Sustainability Victoria in partnership with Level Crossing Removal Authority, KBR, John Holland, Hanson, and VicRoads 

- Tuan Ngo and Ali Kashani  Impact-resistant concrete safety road barrier with recycled tyre  Funded through a competitive R&D scheme of Tyre Stewardship Australia in partnership with Saferoads and VicRoads 

- Tuan Ngo, Ali Kashani, and Ailar Hajimohammadi  A novel application of recycled glass in lightweight concrete  Funded through a Competitive R&D scheme of Sustainability Victoria in partnership with PrefabAUS 

- Tuan Ngo and Ali Kashani  Novel applications of recycled tyre in lightweight composite sandwich panels  Funded through a competitive R&D scheme of Tyre Stewardship Australia in partnership with PrefabAUS 


My Awards

  • Churchill Fellowship for 3D printing of houses sponsored by AVJennings

My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

PhD Scholarships may be available for research-enthusiastic local and international students with excellent academic grades (GPA of 80 and above) and at least one journal paper or equivalent research experience.

If you are eligible to get a scholarship (or if you have your own scholarship), please email (ali.kashani@unsw.edu.au) your updated CV, official transcripts, and a brief summary of your research interest.

Available research areas:

- CO2 mineralisation in concrete

- High-performance and sustainable construction materials and techniques for 3D printing

- Next generation of low-carbon concrete 

 


Currently supervising

PhD students

 

2023 - 2026 Dengyu You –  Experimental and Numerical Analysis for Structural Optimisation of 3D Printed Concrete Walls

2022 - 2026

Reza Namini – Modelling CO2 transportation and reaction mechanisms to predict concrete durability against carbonation and corrosion

2023 - 2026

 

Rizwan Hameed – CO2 sequestration in low-carbon concretes

2022 - 2025

 

Emad Golafshani – Developing a sustainable mix design of concrete containing waste materials using machine learning and metaheuristic optimization algorithms

2021 - 2024 Liming Yang (Joint with Dr Sepasgozar) – Nozzle Optimisation for 3D printing Concrete

2021 - 2024

Zuobang Yao (joint with Dr Kim) – Beneficiation of mine tailings into concrete binders

2019 - 2023

Hamid Bayat  – Fibre-reinforced lightweight concrete for 3D printing

 

 
 

 


My Engagement

2021 - now

Chair – Cement and concrete working group at Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders’ Alliance (MECLA)

2021 - now NSW Committee member  Concrete Institute of Australia

2018 - 2019

Academic member – Net Zero Concrete Industry Working Group

2019 - now

Associate Fellow in teaching and learning –  the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE)

2016 - now

Member – Concrete Institute of Australia

2014 - now

Member – Australian Society of Rheology

 

2023 - 2024 Guest Editor of Journal of Case Studies in Construction Materials (Q1)

2019 - 2021

Guest Editor of Journal of Applied Sciences (Q1) for the special issue of "Microstructures and Materials for Additive Manufacturing"

2020 - 2021

Associate Editor of Journal of Frontiers in Built Environment for the special topic of “Materials and Technologies Towards Low-Carbon Concrete’


My Teaching

CVEN 4104 'Sustainability in Construction'

CVEN 9731 'Project Management Framework'

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Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20) Level 2, Room CE204

Contact

(+61 2) 9385 5766
(+61 2) 9385 6139

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