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Ian Gilbert

BE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

Professor of Civil Engineering
ARC Australian Professorial Fellow

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 512 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 6002
Fax: + 61 2 9313 8341
Email: i.gilbertroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Teaching Areas

Engineering Mechanics
Structural Analysis and Design
Concrete Structures

Research Areas

Serviceability of concrete and composite structures. This involves the development of analytical models for the time-dependent in-service behaviour of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures and steel-concrete composite structures, including beams, slabs, columns, shallow arches and domes;
Creep and shrinkage of concrete and the effects of creep and shrinkage in concrete structures;
The impact of low ductility reinforcement on the strength and ductility of reinforced concrete members and structures;
Finite element modelling of concrete structures, involving the development of FE models that realistically account for material non-linearity and, where appropriate, geometric non-linearity;
Structural applications of high strength concrete and reactive powder concrete, including flexural and non-flexural members; and
Time-dependent behaviour of reinforced concrete arches and axisymmetric domes

Current Nationally Competitive Research Grants

ARC Discovery (DP0346234) - Nonlinear Analysis and Behaviour of Shallow Concrete Arches (2003-2005) - $322,000 - with Bradford M.A.
ARC Discovery (DP0558370) - The implications of low ductility reinforcement and strain localisation on the strength and ductility of reinforced concrete two-way slabs (2005-2009) - $985,000
ARC Discovery (DP0662808) - Nonlinear analysis and behaviour of thin concrete axisymmetric shells (2006-2008) - $430,000 - with Bradford M.A.

Books:

GILBERT, R.I. (1988), "Time Effects in Concrete Structures", Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 321 pp.

GILBERT, R.I. and MICKLEBOROUGH, N.C. (1990), "Design of Prestressed Concrete", Unwin Hyman, London, 504 pp (2nd Printing, E&FN Spon, London, 1997).

HALL, A.S., ARCHER, F.E. and GILBERT, R.I. (1999), "Engineering Statics", UNSW Press, Sydney, 2nd Edition, 294 pp (also published in Korean by Books-Hill Publishing Co., Korea, 2001, 335 pp and 1st Indian Edition published by Overseas Press India P/L New Delhi in 2006).

Refereed Journal Papers (2007-2008):

MOORE, S., WAITE, D., GILBERT, I. and MACLEOD, D. (2007), “Inclusion of Sustainability Principles into the Environmental Engineering Program at UNSW”, Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, Engineers Australia, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp 83-89. (C1)

PI, Y-L, BRADFORD, M.A., TIN-LOI, F. and GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “Geometric and Material Nonlinear Analysis of Elastically Restrained Arches”, Journal of Engineering Structures, V. 29, No. 3, pp 283-295. (C1)

ZHANG, Y.X., BRADFORD, M.A. and GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “A Layered Cylindrical Quadrilateral Shell Element for Nonlinear Analysis of RC Plate Structures”, Advances in Engineering Software, V. 38, No.7, pp 488-500. (C1)

GILBERT, R.I. and SAKKA, Z.I. (2007), “The effect of reinforcement type on the ductility of suspended reinforced concrete slabs”, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Vol. 133, No. 6, pp 834-843. (C1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “Tension Stiffening in Lightly Reinforced Concrete Slabs”, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Vol. 133, No. 6, pp 899-903. (C1)

BRADFORD, M.A., WANG, T., PI Y-L and GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “In-Plane Stability of Parabolic Arches with Horizontal Spring Supports. I: Theory”, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Vol. 133, No. 8, pp 1130-1137. (C1)

WANG, T., BRADFORD, M.A., GILBERT, R.I. and PI Y-L (2007), “In-Plane Stability of Parabolic Arches with Horizontal Spring Supports. II 2: Experiments”, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Vol. 133, No. 8, pp 1138-1145. (C1)

ZHANG, Y.X., BRADFORD, M.A. and GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “A Layered Shear-Flexural Plate/Shell Element using Timoshenko Beam Functions for Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Plates’, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 43, No. 11, August, pp 888-900. (C1).

GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Control of Flexural Cracking in Reinforced Concrete”, ACI Structural Journal, V.105, No.3, May-June, pp 301-307. (C1)

CHONG, K.T., FOSTER, S.J. and GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Time-Dependent Modelling of RC Structures using the Cracked Membrane Model and Solidification Theory”, Computers and Structures, Vol.86, No. 11-12, June, pp 1305-1317. (C1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Instantaneous and Time-Dependent Deflection of Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members”, Concrete Forum - Journal of the Concrete Institute of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 1, June, pp 7 -17.

GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Revisiting the tension stiffening effect in reinforced concrete slabs”, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Engineers Australia, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp 189-195. (C1)

Refereed Conference Papers (2007-2008):

GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “Tension stiffening in lightly reinforced concrete beams and slabs”, International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, India. (E1)

BRADFORD, M.A. and GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “Short and long-term behaviour of concrete-filled steel tubular arches”, SEMC 2007, The Third Intl. Conf. on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computations, 10-12 September, Cape Town, South Africa. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. and SAKKA, Z.I. (2007), “The effect of reinforcement type on the ductility and robustness of reinforced concrete slabs”, Proceedings of 4^th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference ISEC-4, 26-28 Sept, Melbourne, Australia, Taylor and Francis publishers, Editors – M. Xie and I. Patnaikuni, Vol. 1, pp 517-523. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “A review and critical comparison of the provisions for the anchorage of reinforcement in North American, European and Australian Standards”, Proceedings of 4^th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference ISEC-4, 26-28 Sept, Melbourne, Australia, Taylor and Francis publishers, Editors – M. Xie and I. Patnaikuni, Vol. 1, pp 279-285. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “The new anchorage and splice length provisions in AS3600 – A comparison with other codes and experimental data”, CONCRETE 07, 23^rd Biennial Conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia, 18-20 October, Adelaide. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2007), “The treatment of ductility in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete beams and slabs – why AS3600-2001 got it wrong”, CONCRETE 07, 23rd Biennial Conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia, 18-20 October, Adelaide.

BRADFORD M.A. and GILBERT R.I. (2007), “Nonlinear analysis of shallow parabolic concrete arches under thermal loading”, FIB Workshop on Fire Design of Concrete Structures, Coimbra, Portugal, November.

HAMED, E., BRADFORD M.A. and GILBERT R.I. (2008), “Effects of boundary conditions on the non-linear long-term behaviour of spherical shallow concrete domes”, Proceedings, 6^th International Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures IASS-IACM 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, May.

GILBERT, R.I. and NEJADI, S. (2008), “An experimental study of flexural cracking in reinforced concrete”, ASEC 2008, Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, June, Melbourne.

GILBERT, R.I. and WU, H.Q. (2008), “Time-dependent stiffness of cracked reinforced concrete elements under sustained loads”, ASEC 2008, Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, June, Melbourne.

BRADFORD M.A., HAMED, E., and GILBERT R.I. (2008), “Indirect straining of shallow axisymmetric domes: analysis and behaviour”, Proceedings, Conference on Structures and Granular Solids, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, June-July.

GILBERT, R.I. and SAKKA, Z.I. (2008), “Robustness and ductility of reinforced concrete floor slabs containing welded wire fabric”, Keynote paper, Proceedings of the 7^h International Congress – Concrete: Construction’s Sustainable Option, July, University of Dundee, Scotland, Precast Concrete: Towards Lean Construction, RK Dhir, MD Newlands, MR Jones and JE Halliday (Eds.), brepress, pp 251 – 262. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Deflection calculations for reinforced concrete flexural members”, accepted, 20^th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ASMSM20), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, December. (E1)

GILBERT, R.I. (2008), “Design for flexural crack control in reinforced concrete”, accepted, 20^th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ASMSM20), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, December. (E1)

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