时间：2012年11月6日（下周二）15:00
地点：安中大楼A601
Paper title:
Advances in cold-formed steel structures
Abstract:
Cold-formed steel structures are used extensively in light gauge construction. The use of cold-formed steel structures has increased rapidly in recent years. Cold-formed steel members can be used economically in domestic and small industrial building construction and other light gauge structures. Local buckling is a major consideration in the design of cold-formed light gauge steel structures. The design and application of cold-formed steel structures will be presented. A relatively new design method called the “Direct strength method” for cold-formed steel structures will be described. Furthermore, computer program for the design of cold-formed steel structural members will be also presented.
Speaker:
Dr Ben Young is currently a Professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He is also Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and Warden of Suen Chi Sun Hall, HKU. He received the BSc, BEng and PhD degrees from the University of Sydney in 1991, 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was one of the code writers for the "Hong Kong Code of Practice for the Structural Use of Steel" for the Buildings Department, Hong Kong Government. Professor Young is a committee member of SEI/ASCE-8 Specification for the “Design of Cold-formed Stainless Steel Structural Members”, American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Young is currently a member of eight editorial boards, such as the Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, Journal of Advanced Steel Construction and so on. His research interests include cold-formed steel structures, testing and design of steel structures, stainless steel structures, aluminum structures, structural stability, fire resistance of metal structures and engineering education. He has published over 260 International journal and conference papers of which over 110 of these publications are SCI indexed papers.
In his three years of teaching at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), he received the Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award in 2002, the Bechtel Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 2003, and the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004 that is awarded to only one teaching staff every year. After joining HKU in 2005, Professor Young received the Best Teacher Award in 2006, the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2006 and the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2008.