Civil Engineering Departmental Seminar - Sustainable Structural Systems: form timber to bamboo
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Sustainable Structural Systems: form timber to bamboo
Over the past decades, timber structure research has undergone a resurgence driven by the widespread adoption of mass timber construction, spanning a broad and diverse range of topics. This seminar outlines the speaker’s recent research on timber structures, covering non-destructive testing of light-frame wood I-joists, connection performance in prefabricated timber floor systems, mass timber floor systems and bio-based material development, and directions for future work.
Dr. Sigong Zhang is a Lecturer in Structural Engineering at Newcastle University, UK. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and brings over 15 years of international research experience spanning China, Canada, and the UK, with a focus on the vibration serviceability/habitability of lightweight floor systems and timber structures. Dr Zhang is the recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2020) and the L. J. Markwardt Award from the Forest Products Society, USA (2021).