Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Grants: Structures and Infrastructure Protection Group

National Competitive Grants won by Structures and Infrastructure Protection Group with collaborators over the past five years (since 2002).

Funded Research Projects

Amount
AUD $ (‘000)

Granting Bodies and Grant Type

Year

Investigators
CI=Chief Investigators
PI=Partner Investigators

Australian Classification of Building Facades and Bomb Blast Vulnerability

160

Dept. of Prime-Minister and Cabinet

2007

CI -  Mendis

Collapse Modelling of Soft-Storey Buildings

180

ARC Discovery Grant

2007-2009

CIs – Wilson, Lam

High Rate Testing System for Materials and Structures

490

ARC Linkage Infrastructure
(LIEF) Grant

2007

Beynon, Hodgson, Lu, Wilson, Mendis, Gad and 7 others.

Development of  economical beam-column connections for robust composite steel-concrete construction

560

ARC Linkage Grant with  Smorgon, OneSteel and AJAX

2006-2008

CIs-
Goldsworthy, Gad
Uy, Fernando

Technological Advances in Large Scale Roman Concrete Buildings During the 2nd and 1st Centuries BC

140

ARC Discovery Grant

2006-
2008

CIs –
Sear, Hutson, Goldsworthy

Displacement Based Seismic Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings

52

ARC International Linkage Grant (with Rose School Pavia)

2005- 2007

CIs –
Griffith, Magenes, Wilson, Lam

Displacement Based Earthquake Design of Unreinforced Masonry Walls

186

ARC Discovery Grant

2004-2006

CIs –
Griffith, Wilson, Lam

Behaviour of anchors in post-tensioned high-strength concrete slabs

117

ARC Linkage Grant
(with CSIRO)

2004-2006

with Readymix Ltd.
CI-Mendis, PI – Mak

Seismic performance of concrete beam-slab-column systems constructed with a re-useable sheet metal formwork system

71

ARC, Linkage Grant
(with Decoin Ltd ACT)

2003-2004

CI - Mendis

Innovative concrete panels
for resisting severe impulsive loading

140

ARC Discovery Grant

2004-2006

CI- Mendis,
PI- Mak (CSIRO)

Research network for a Secure Australia (RNSA)

1,950

ARC

2005-2009

Mendis as Network Convener

Collection, Sharing, Visualisation and Analysis of locally gathered information from geographically remote areas vulnerable to tidal waves

100

ARC e-research Grant

2005-2006

CI – Mendis and others

Engineering a Secure Australia (RNESA)

40

ARC research Network-seed funding

2003/2004

CI - Mendis

Furnace to Test Nano-Geopolymers under Extreme Fire Loading,

502

ARC Linkage Infrastructure Granmt

2004

CIs – Mendis, Van Deventer, Luckey

Response of Residential Structures to Blast Vibration

225

ARC Linkage Grant with Terrock Pty Ltd

2002-2005

CIS – Wilson, Gad, Richards

Hydroelasticity of compliant offshore structures

168

ARC Grant

2002-2004

CIs -  Xia, Haritos, Ronalds, Faltinsen

Testing Facility for Heavily Loaded Bridge and Barrier Systems

603

ARC-Linkage Infrastructure Grant

2002

CIs- Mendis, Xiao-Ling and three others

Total Amount of Funding

$AUD 5.7 M approx