Emerging Structural Technologies | Research groups

The Emerging Structural Technologies group, in collaboration with Profs Nanos (Portsmouth) and Pei (Mines), are trialing an innovative, low-cost wireless seismic monitoring system in the tallest full-scale building ever to be tested on an earthquake simulator (NEHRI Tallwood project).

Jad's work in collaboration with Milad and Georgios wins the Basu Prize

HOW WOULD AN ARCH ON MARS LOOK LIKE?
Finding optimal shapes of regolith-based arches subject to inertia (seismic)l loading in low-gravity (extraterrestrial) conditions.
Open Access References in the description of the video (YouTube).

We are creating advanced modelling tools to facilitate the rapid simulation of the rheological response of wood and its effects on important structural demand parameters.
Click for a video of a coupled moisture-dependent advanced structural analysis. – Work by Carlos Melchor-Placencia.

tcc — Integrating Grasshopper with the powerful FE framework OpenSees into a design tool that facilitates the exploration of designs. Code and documentation describing the application to Timber-Concrete Composite bridges available at: https://github.com/CMalagaC/TCC_Grasshopper_OpenSees

The EmergStructTech Research Group has signed a MoU of with the Cluster of Excellence: Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) at University of Stuttgart to harness the full potential of digital technologies in rethinking design.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL NATURAL HAZARDS

Rodrigo Thiers-Moggia has been announced as the 2021 recipient of the Unwin Prize for the best PhD Thesis in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London

New research projects on digital fabrication and structural sensing

The Seismic Squad at the Great Exhibition Road Festival

3D-printed wooden structural connections inspired by Japanese joinery

Shaking table demonstration of a structure equipped with an inerter.