Dr John Zhang

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
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Biography

Dr John Zhang is a Chartered Professional Engineer registered in the NPER Civil and Structural discipline in Australia. He also held registration to practice in Queensland under the Register of Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ-Civil). He has been teaching in the area of structures and construction technology to architectural, engineering and construction management students in Australia since 1988.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

200502 Construction Technology 3 (Concrete Construction)
200470 Construction Technology 4 (Steel Construction)
200472 Material Science in Construction

As a structural engineer, Dr Zhang is predominantly interested in the structural behaviour of the various structural systems and components from a designer's point of view. In recent years, his research has mainly focussed on the engineering responses of various sustainable building materials including strawbale, earth and recycled concrete and their innovative use in construction.

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Publications

Faine, M. and Zhang, J.Q., A pilot study examining and comparing the load carrying capacity and behaviour of an earth rendered straw bale wall to cement rendered straw bale wall, International Straw bale Conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia, December 2002.

Zhang, J.Q., Load carrying characteristics of a single straw bale under compression, International Straw bale Conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia, December 2002

Zhou, X.G. and Zhang, J.Q., Preliminary fatigue tests on concrete after exposure to temperature of up to 300 degree C. An inter4national Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol.4 No. 4, pp197-201, 2001.

Zhang, J.Q. and Chao, M., Design of concrete filled steel tubular beam-columns under biaxial bending, paper accepted for the 8th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Singapore, December, 2001.

Faine, M. and Zhang, J.Q., A Pilot Study examining the strength, compressibility and serviceability of rendered straw bale walls for two storey load bearing construction, First International Conference on Ecological Building Structure, California, July 2001.

Chao, M. and Zhang, J.Q., Numerical equations for member design of concrete filled steel tubular columns, in Creative Systems in Structural and Construction Engineering, edited by Singh, A., Proceedings of the First International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2001, pp 783-789

Chao, M. and Zhang, J.Q., Accuracy of numerical expressions for the section analysis of CFST beam-columns, Proceedings of 7th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, August 1999, Kochi, Japan.

Zhang, J.Q. and Chao, M., A numerical procedure for the analysis of steel concrete composite columns, Proceedings of 7th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, August 1999, Kochi, Japan.

Zhang, J.Q. and Chao, M., Constitutive relationships for circular concrete filled steel tubes (CFST), Proceedings of 24th conference on our world in concrete and structures, August, 1999, Singapore.

For more information, contact John.

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