Position:
- Professor
- Director: Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit
Email:
Office:
- Room 4.46; New Engineering Building; UCT Upper Campus
Qualifications:
- PhD Structural Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (2002)
- MSc Structural Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1995)
- BSc Hons Civil Engineering, University of Zimbabwe (1992)
Professional Affiliation:
- Pr Eng (Engineering Council of South Africa)
Undergraduate Teaching:
- CIV4045F (Structural design II)
Postgraduate Teaching:
- CIV5119Z (Structural performance assessment and monitoring)
- CIV5140Z (Strengthening and retrofitting of concrete structures)
- CIV5141Z (Condition assessment and remedial action on steel structures)
Research Affiliation:
Publication Profile:
Research Interests:
- Structural health monitoring and surveillance systems for bridges and building structures
- Development, testing and deployment of sensors for structural health monitoring
- Identification and characterisation of live loads on bridges using health monitoring systems
- Full-scale vibration testing and system identification of large structures
- Integration of structural health monitoring systems with bridge management systems
- Advanced signal processing using wavelets
- Statistical analysis and time series analysis of structural monitoring data