Emerging Structural Technologies

Welcome to the Emerging Structural Technologies Research Group. We lead the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics research at Imperial College London

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With a Research Collaborations grant under the International Science Partnerships Fund we are creating the first AI-powered tool for the integrated design of seismically resilient, digitally manufactured hybrid timber-GFRC housing structures in Turkey.

We are joining forces with the Universidad del Bío-Bío to develop a modular building system combining cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls and hollow concrete panels to serve the local mid-rise marked with improved serviceability, fire and seismic performance.

The "ERIES-TRUST: Truly resilient timber buildings" project will test for the first time large-scale seismically resilient rocking structures equipped with inerters.

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).

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.

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).

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

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