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Staff Profiles - John Wilson



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Contact Details:

Office Location: EN701c
Phone: +61 3 9214 4882
Fax: +61 3 9214 8264
Email: jwilson@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

John Wilson
Professor of Civil Engineering
PhD, University of Melbourne, 2000
MSc, University of California, (Berkeley), 1984
BE (First Class Honours), Monash University (Clayton), 1980

Areas of Expertise and Research

  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Structural Dynamics and Blast Engineering
  • Structural Systems
  • Sustainable Buildings


Current Reseach Projects

  • Response of structures to earthquake excitation
  • Response of structures to mine-induced blast vibrations
  • Floor vibrations under human induced excitation
  • Deterioration modelling of pipelines and light structures under environmental loading
  • Productivity and human comfort studies in green commercial buildings


Membership of Professional Organisations

  • Fellow Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
  • Chartered & Registered Professional Engineer (CPEng, NPER-2005)


Professional Committees

  • 2002 Victorian Chairman, Engineers Australia
  • Australian Delegate to the IAEE 1998-2006
  • President Australian Earthquake Engineering Society
  • Chairman Standards Committee BD/6/11 Earthquake Loading Standard


Publications

Research outcomes have been disseminated through some 40 refereed journal and 75 refereed conference publications. A selection of 10 journal publications are as follows:

  1. Lam NTK and Wilson JL, 1999: “Estimation of the Site Natural Period from borehole records”, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.SE1(3), 179-199.
  2. Lam NTK, Wilson JL, Chandler AM and Hutchinson GL, 2000, “Response Spectrum Modelling for Rock Sites in Low and Moderate Seismicity Regions Combining Velocity, Displacement and Acceleration Predictions", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Vol.29 No. 10, pp 1491-1526.
  3. Lam NTKL, Wilson JL, Chandler AM, 2001, “Seismic displacement response spectrum estimated from the frame analogy soil amplification model” Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 23 pp 1437-1452
  4. Wilson JL, 2002, “Code recommendations for the aseismic design of tall reinforced concrete chimneys” ACI Structural Journal, Vol.99 No. 5, pp. 622-630
  5. Wilson JL, 2003, “Earthquake response of tall reinforced concrete chimneys” Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 11-24
  6. Wilson JL, Lam NTK, 2003, "A recommended earthquake response model for Australia", Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.5 No.1 pp 17-27
  7. Wilson JL, Lam NTK, 2005, "Earthquake design of buildings in Australia using velocity and displacement principles", Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.6 No.2 pp 103-118.
  8. Lam NTK, Wilson JL, 2004, "Displacement modelling of intraplate earthquakes" ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology, Vol 41, No. 1, March, pp 15-52
  9. Griffith MC, Lam NTK, Wilson JL, Doherty K, 2004 “Experimental investigation of unreinforced masonry walls in flexure” Structural Journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol 130 No. 3, pp 423-43
  10. Gad EF, Wilson JL, Moore AJ and Richards AB, 2005, “Effects of mine blasting on residential structures”, Journal of Performance of Constructed Infrastructure, ASCE, ASCE, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 222-228.

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