Progressive Collapse Research @ Griffith University:
From Concrete Flat Plate Systems to Tall Timber Buildings

时间：12月15日星期五下午14:00

地点：地坤楼409会议室

报告人：Hong Guan教授

主持人：肖岩教授

报告内容：

As part of the funded Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, a series of RC flat plate substructures were tested to failure at Griffith University. A total of five tests were completed, namely Slabs 1 and 2 (being repeated tests under interior column removal scenario), Slab 3 (under edge column removal scenario), Slab 4 (with two diagonal corner columns being removed in sequence) and Slab 5 (under combined edge and interior column removal scenario). Preliminary results of these tests will be presented covering load-displacement responses, crack patterns, failure modes and load distribution patterns. Pilot numerical modelling work has also been conducted on the RC slab-column joint specimens. The outcome of this study will help understand the punching shear behaviour, the progressive collapse mechanism and resistance capacity of flat plate constructions, for which the Australian Standard does not offer adequate design guidelines.

Following on from our successful laboratory tests on concrete flat plates, a series of tests on timber frames will also be performed under the support of the ARC Timber Hub project. We will focus on the design aspects to mitigate progressive collapse of tall timber buildings which are gaining popularity in Australia and worldwide. Yet no proper design guidelines are available to prevent the progressive collapse of tall timber buildings in international specifications.

报告人简介：

Professor Hong Guan is Head of Civil Engineering on Gold Coast Campus of Griffith University. She served as Program Convenor for Civil Engineering discipline for over 9 years and has been member of the Industry Reference Group (Civil) for 4 years. She is also Executive Committee Member of Australian Network on Structural Health Monitoring.

She is specialised in structural engineering and computational mechanics, with particular areas of research focus on failure and progressive collapse analyses of concrete flat plate structures, bridge deterioration modelling and intelligent system for Level-2 bridge condition inspections, and application of finite element method in dental implant research.

She has to date published 1 research book with Springer (Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures. From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas, Xinzheng Lu, Hong Guan. Springer (2017). ISBN: 978-981-10-3086-4 (Print), 978-981-10-3087-1 (Online)), 2 edited books, 4 book chapters, and over 110 ISI papers and 130 peer-reviewed conference papers. She has been awarded many research grants from the Australian Research Council, Griffith University, state and local government and industry. She has also won multiple teaching excellence awards from Griffith University and from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.