Associate Professor (Structural Engineering)   Ir Dr. Ray K.L. SU   BSc (Eng), The University of Hong Kong, China PhD, The University of Hong Kong, China MHKIE, MIStructE, IRSE-PRC, RPE (Structural), CEng   Office:      HW 6-06 Phone:     +852 28592648 Fax:         +852 25595337 E-mail:     klsu@hkucc.hku.hk Homepage:   http://web.hku.hk/~klsu/

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL 1003 Engineering Drawing
• CIVL 2001 Engineering Design and Communication
• CIVL 3018 Theory and Design of Structures III
• CIVL 3023 Inter-disciplinary Design Project
• CIVL 6003 Advanced Reinforced Concrete Structure Design

 

Research Interests

• Seismic effects on high-rise buildings and transfer structures
• Strut-and-tie modeling
• Plate-strengthened concrete structures
• Computational fracture mechanics

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

• Earthquake risk assessment of high rise buildings with transfer structures
• Strengthening of reinforced concrete coupling beams by bolted external steel plates
• Reinforced concrete coupling beams with embedded steel plate
• Strut and tie modelling for non-flexural components
• Fractal hybrid finite element method for two-dimensional crack analysis

 

Representative Publications

1. Su RKL, Siu WH and Smith ST (2010), Effects of bolt-plate arrangements on steel plate strengthened reinforced concrete beams, Engineering Structures, 32(6), 1769-1778.
2. Su RKL and Lam WY (2009) A unified design approach for plate-reinforced composite coupling beams, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 65(3), p675-686.
3. Su, R.K.L., and Siu, W.H. (2007). "Nonlinear response of bolt groups under in-plane loading." Engineering Structures, 29(4), 626-634.
4. Feng WJ and Su RKL (2006), Dynamic internal crack problem of a functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic strip, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 43(17) p5196-5216.
5. Su, R.K.L., Pam, H.J. and Lam, W.Y. (2006). "Effects of shear connectors on plate-reinforced composite coupling beams of short and medium-length spans." Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 62(1-2), 178-188.
6. Su, R.K.L., and Zhu, Y. (2005). "Experimental and numerical studies of external steel plate strengthened reinforced concrete coupling beams." Engineering Structures, 27(10), 1537-1550.
7. Su, R.K.L. (2005). "Evaluation of T-stress for cracks in elastic sheets." Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 20(3), 335-346.
8. Su, R.K.L., and Sun, H.Y. (2003). "Numerical solutions of two-dimensional anisotropic crack problems." International Journal of Solids and Structures, 40(18), 4615-4635.
9. Leung, A.Y.T., and Su, R.K.L. (1996). "Analytical solution for mode I crack orthogonal to free surface." International Journal of Fracture, 76(1), 79-95.
10. Leung, A.Y.T., and Su, R.K.L. (1994). "Mode-I crack problems by fractal 2-level finite-element methods." Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 48(6), 847-856.

 

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