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Staff Profile

Dr Sigong Zhang

Lecturer in Structural Engineering

  • Email: sigong.zhang@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Room 2.05, Drummond Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    United Kingdom
Background

Dr Zhang joined the School of Engineering as Lecturer in Structural Engineering in 2022. He was a research fellow funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Exeter. He obtained Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada followed by a postdoctoral training on timber engineering at the University of Alberta. His current research interests include timber engineering, vibration engineering and human movement.

Research

Research Interests

Timber / steel structures: Connections, composite actions, lateral load resisting systems

Vibration serviceability: Lightweight timber / steel floor systems, footbridge

Solid mechanics: Analytical modelling of structural elements with complicated boundary conditions, attachments and discontinuities.

Human movement: Gait analysis under abnormal environment (e.g., vibration)


Past fundings

“Developing advanced vibration performance assessment for new generation of lightweight pedestrian structures using motion platform and virtual reality environments”, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, ID: 898216, € 224 933.76, October 2020 to October 2022. Co-PI: Stana Zivanovic, University of Exeter, UK

“Structural analysis of innovative mass timber penal-steel composite floors and its application”, Mitacs Globalink, IT16921, $6,000, June 2020 to August 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic). Co-PI: Takuro Mori, Hiroshima University, Japan



Postgraduate Supervision

If you are interested in undertaking a PhD/MPhil under my supervision, please do send me your CV.


Please find degree information through the following link 

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/degrees/8040f-17/

Teaching

ENG2015 Mechanics II

CEG3301 Design of Building Systems