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Kourosh Kayvani

BSc Teh., MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng, MIABSE, MIASS

Visiting Professorial Fellow

Contact Details

Office Location:
External
Phone: TBA
Fax: TBA
Email: KayvaniKroberto@conwagjlo.com

Teaching Areas

Applied Finite Element Analysis
Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings
Cable Structures
Advanced Steel Structures
Structural Dynamics
Earthquake Engineering
Conceptual Structural Design

Research Areas

Sustainable Structural Engineering
Wind Motion in Tall Buildings
Wind Induced Fatigue of Metallic Structures
Long-term Shortening Analysis of Tall Buildings
Buckling of Reinforced Concrete Plates and Shells
Blast and Impact Engineering

Awards

2006 IABSE Prize awarded by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering "in recognition of his contribution to advanced analysis & innovative design of major long span structures worldwide."

Selected Publications

"Structural Engineering Solutions for Tall Buildings in Australia." CIMS2008, Gregory J Hancock Symposium, Sydney, Australia, June 2008.

"Are we winning the battle of computerised structural modelling." Editorial. Structural Engineering International, Vol 17, No 1, February 2007, page 3.

"Analytical-Measurement Methodology for Fatigue Life Assessment of Bulk Storage Facilities" SIF2006 Conference, Structural Integrity and Failure, Sydney, September 2006

“Capacity of steel columns with excessive crookedness.” The Structural Engineer, IStructE, UK, April 2006.

"Structural Engineering for Impact and Blast using Nonlinear FEA". Proceeding IABSE Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.

"Advances in Long-span Steel Roof Structures" Annual Lecture. Singapore Structural Steel Society. Singapore, November 2003.

“Analysis and design of cable supported roof structures.” Keynote Address. Proc. Advances in Structures (ASSCCA’03), Sydney, Australia, June 2003.

“Structural design of Sydney’s tallest residential building.” Proc. Advances in Structures (ASSCCA’03), Sydney, Australia, June 2003.

“Seismic engineering for Replacement Research Reactor in Australia.” Proc. Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 2003.

"Lightweight Architecture – the Structure Exposed". LSAA2002 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2002, (Editor).

“Lightweight glazing structures.” Proc. Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 133-138, 2001.

“Cable stayed grandstand roofs for the 2000 Olympics.” Proc. Lightweight Structures Conference (LSA’98), Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 57-65, 1998.

“Lattice shell roof of the Sydney International Aquatic Centre.” Proc. Lightweight Structures Conference (LSA’98), Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 49-56, 1998.

“Recent lightweight structures in steel and glass in Australia.” Proc. Lightweight Structures Conference (LSA’98), Sydney, Vol. 1, pp. 219-228, 1998.

"Influence of local inertia on seismic response of offshore jackets." Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 1, January 1997, pp. 52-61.

"Hysteretic modelling of tubular members and offshore platforms." Engineering Structures, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 93-101, 1996.

"A modelling approach for three dimensional dynamic analysis of offshore jackets." Proc. 14th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (14ACMSM), Hobart, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 88-93, 1995.

"Seismic response of offshore platforms: a finite element analysis." Proc. Australasian Structural Engineering Conference (ASEC), Sydney, Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 439-444, 1994

"A simplified method for seismic response analysis of offshore platforms." Proc. 1st International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran, Iran, pp. 1107-1119, 1991.

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