SYNOPSIS

Life threatening events of explosion fire and impact of heavy fallen or moving objects in accidents or in incidences of acts of terrorism, crime or social unrest have always been of great concern to our community. Structural engineers who have been entrusted to ensure safety of the building occupants can be held accountable for poor structural performance in these extreme events. However, the amount of advanced technical education that can be obtained from an undergraduate engineering degree program on the related topics is typically limited because of their very specialised nature. This two-day short course aims to introduce key fundamental concepts and up-to-date knowledge, from theory to practice, that are required for the design and assessment of buildings for countering this type of threats.

The short course features:

· Description of the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre and an
example demonstrating the temperature evaluation of steel joist beams using a current
calculation method.

· Lessons learnt from bombing at Oklahoma 1995, bombing of the Jakarta Australian
Embassy 2004, and other major incidents.

· Lessons learnt from the progressive collapse on the Seoul Departmental Store.

· A new approach to blast resistant design and simplified hand calculation method for
practising engineers.

· Simplified hand calculation method for analysing the effect of the impact of a heavy
fallen, or moving, object on a structural beam, or column.

· Analogy of calculation for seismic, impact and blast actions in a unified framework.


BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

Bill Wong is Associate Professor at Monash University Melbourne. His research aims to provide engineering solutions so as to minimise loss of lives and
properties in building fires. Bill’s current research explores the reasons for structural collapses, designing steel structures using both elastic and plastic
methods, nonlinear structural analysis and its applications to fire resistant structures design. An advocate for the use of plastic method in structural
design, Bill has developed simple methods for analysis using both computers and manual techniques. These techniques have now been built into the
undergraduate civil engineering syllabus at Monash University. Publishing a book on plastic design was yet another highlight in Bill’s teaching career
and receiving the 2011 Teaching Excellence in Structural Engineering Award from Engineers Australia was icing on the cake. Using numerous case
studies in his teaching methods, Bill explores the Hyatt Regency Walkway collapse in the USA, the progressive collapse of the Seoul Department Store
and the footbridge collapse at the Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv. Last and not least he is an Australian pioneer in the exploration of shape memory alloys
for structural fire protection purposes

Nelson Lam, Reader in Civil Engineering at The University of Melbourne, is an internationally recognized expert in structural dynamics, earthquake
engineering and protective technology. In the past 20 years, he has been researching and consulting widely in this field and has published some 200
technical articles which include some 80 journal articles. His achievement in research and knowledge transfer in this field was recognized by the award
of the Chapman Medal (1999), the Warren Medal (2006) by Engineers Australia, Best Paper Award (2004-2007) by the ISET Journal of Earthquake
Technology and Chapman Medal (2010). At University of Melbourne, he is co-ordinator of higher degree programs in civil and structural engineering.
His early career was with Scott Wilson International as structural engineer in their Hong Kong Office throughout the 1980’s and attained British
chartered engineer status (MICE, MIStructE) during that period. He was awarded the degree of PhD in structural engineering at the University of
Melbourne in 1993, master degree in concrete structures at Imperial College of Science & Technology, London in 1982 and bachelor degree in civil
engineering with first class honours at the University of Leeds, England in 1981.

Tuan Ngo is senior lecturer at University of Melbourne. He obtained his BScH (Civil Engineering) at the Hanoi University of Civil Engineering,
Vietnam, and Master of Engineering Science and PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Ngo has made a significant contribution to research in
vulnerability modelling of critical infrastructure, particularly in the area of assessment of the effects of natural and technical hazards on buildings and
infrastructure. Dr. Ngo was the Research Program Manager of the ARC Research Network for a Secure Australia and Research Director of the Advanced
Protective Technologies for Engineering Structures (APTES) at the University of Melbourne. He is recognised as an expert in protective technologies for
protecting critical infrastructure by many government organisations and industry. Ngo received the Safeguarding Australia Award for Best Contribution
to National Security Technology Research in 2011. He was the finalist (one in three) of the 2011 DSTO Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Support
of Defence or National Security. Ngo recent research grants are Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability to Blast Effects, Blast Modelling for Cordon
Assessment and Bomb Scene Examination, Research Network for A Secure Australia, Assessment of Façade Systems of high-rise Buildings in Australia
under Blast Loading, Innovative concrete panels for resisting severe impulsive loading. Ngo is also a member of The University of Melbourne Energy
Institute Energy Efficiency Working Group.