Staff profile

Qualifications

• BEng CIAE, MEngSc Qld, PhD Curtin

Teaching areas

• Dr Andrew Kilpatrick teaches in the area of structural design including the behaviour and design of structural steel, structural timber, concrete masonry, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, conceptual design and structural systems.

Supervision

• He has supervised the Investigation projects of both Honours and Pass Degree students, some of which have resulted in papers presented at international conferences.

Professional involvement

• Past consulting projects include the design of industrial and agricultural sheds, elevated silo analysis, design of supports for a suspended swimming pool and forensic engineering.
• He has been a member of Standards Australia Committee BD-002 and Sub-committee BD-002/5 since 2003.

Research interests

• Dr Kilpatrick's research interests include the behaviour of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete members, steel-concrete composite members and the use of Fibre Reinforced Polymer reinforcing in structural concrete.

Recent publications and presentations

• Foster S.J. & Kilpatrick A.E. (2009), Review of flexural strength requirement for suspended RC slabs reinforced with Class L mesh, Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Aravinthan,Karunasena & Wang (Eds), CRC Press, Balkema, pp. 437-443, ISBN 978-0-415-49196-9.
• Foster S. & Kilpatrick A. (2008), The use of low ductility welded wire mesh in the design of suspended reinforced concrete slabs, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering. Vol. 8, No 3, pp. 237-247.
• Warner R.F., Foster S.J. & Kilpatrick A.E. (2007), Reinforced Concrete Basics: Analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures, Pearson Education Australia, ISBN 0733988695.
• Kilpatrick A., Petrolito J., Legge K. & Ionescu D. (2007), On Addressing the Variation in Intellectual Demand of Engineering Undergraduate Research Projects, International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2007, Coimbra, Portugal, 3-7 September, CD-ROM, ISBN 978-972-8055-14-1.
• Kilpatrick A., Legge K., Petrolito J. & Ionescu D. (2006), An Introduction to Civil Engineering Practice Through Project Work , 17th Australasian Assoc. for Engineering Education Conference (Ed: G Rowe & G Reid), Auckland University of Technology, N.Z., 10-13 December, CD-ROM, ISBN 978-0-473-11881-5.
• Kilpatrick A.E. & Dawborn R. (2006), Flexural Shear Capacity of High Strength Concrete Slabs Reinforced with Longitudinal GFRP Bars, Proceedings 2nd Int. FIB Congress, 5-8 June, Naples, Italy, ID 10-39, 10pp.
• Kilpatrick A.E. & Easden L.R. (2005), Shear capacity of GFRP reinforced high strength concrete slabs, Developments in Mechanics of Structures and Materials, A.J. Deeks and H. Hao Editors., Balkema, pp. 119-124, ISBN 90 5809 659 9.