Associate Professor (Structural Engineering)   Dr. Scott T. SMITH   BE (Civil) (Hon 1), the University of New South Wales, Australia PhD, the University of New South Wales, Australia GCHETL, University of Technology Sydney, Australia   Office:      HW 6-10 Phone:     +852 2241 5699 Fax:         +852 2559 5337 E-mail:    stsmith@hku.hk Homepage:   http://web.hku.hk/~stsmith/

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL 2007 Theory and Design of Structures II
• CIVL 6003 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Structure Design

Research Interests

• Behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) structures strengthened, reinforced or prestressed with fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites
• Strengthening of timber and metal with FRP
• Strength, ductility and serviceability of RC structures
• Local and post-local buckling of steel and FRP in composite steel- or FRP-concrete assemblages

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

• Retrofit of reinforced concrete beam column-connections with FRP composites
• Debonding failure in carbon FRP (CFRP) strengthened concrete structures
• Strengthening of reinforced concrete slabs with penetrations using FRP composites
• Design of FRP strengthening works
• Waste minimisation through utilisation of perlite fines in cements and concretes

 

Representative Publications

1. Oehlers, D.J., Seracino, R., and Smith, S.T. (2007). RC Structures Retrofitted with FRP and Metal Plates: Beams and Slabs. Standards Australia, in press.
2. Smith, S.T., and Gravina, R.J. (2007). "Prediction of debonding failure in FRP flexurally strengthened RC members using a local deformation model." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE, in-press.
3. Smith, S.T., and Shrestha, R. (2006). "A review of FRP-strengthened RC beam-column connections." Proceedings, Third International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, CICE 2006, Miami, USA, 13-15 December, 661-664.
4. Gilbert, R.I., and Smith, S.T. (2006). "Strain localization and its impact on the ductility of reinforced concrete slabs containing 500 MPa reinforcement." Advances in Structural Engineering, 9(1), 117-127.
5. Smith, S.T., Bradford, M.A., and Oehlers, D.J. (2003). "Inelastic buckling of rectangular steel plates using a Rayleigh-Ritz method." Structural Stability and Dynamics, 3(4), 503-521.
6. Teng, J.G., Chen, J.F., Smith, S.T., and Lam, L. (2002). FRP-Strengthened RC Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.
7. Smith, S.T., and Teng, J.G. (2002). "FRP-strengthened RC structures. I: Review of debonding strength models." Engineering Structures, 24(4), 385-395.
8. Smith, S.T., and Teng, J.G. (2002). "FRP-strengthened RC structures. II: Assessment of debonding strength models." Engineering Structures, 24(4), 397-417.
9. Smith, S.T., and Teng, J.G. (2001). "Interfacial stresses in plated beams." Engineering Structures, 23(7), 857-871.
10. Smith, S.T., Bradford, M.A., and Oehlers, D.J. (1999). "Numerical convergence of simple and orthogonal polynomials for the unilateral plate buckling problem using the Rayleigh-Ritz method." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 44, 1685-1707.