Folded Structures Lab, 2022
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A/Prof Joe Gattas, Lead | Harry Mills, PhD Candidate | Gabrielle Hodge, PhD Candidate |
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Tomas Bravo Tetlak, PhD Candidate | Yuyu Wang, PhD Candidate | Jian Jiang, MPhil Candidate |
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Mahmoud Abu Saleem, PhD Candidate |
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Dr Ting-Uei (Jeff) Lee, PhD (2019) | Dr Ya Ou, PhD (2020) | Dr Yousef Alqaryouti, PhD (2020) |
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Zhuoyang Xin, MPhil (2021) | Quan Shi, PhD (2021) | Weiqi Cui, PhD (2022) |
Title | Year(s) | Lead(s) | |
Structural performance of cardboard folded sandwich structures for ultra-low-cost emergency shelters | 2022- | Mahmoud Abu Saleem, Joe Gattas, CM Wang | |
Forest to fibre, fibre to building | 2021- | Kim Baber, Catherine Keys | |
Novel database management, verification, and cost optimisation tools for parametric steel connection design | 2021- | Yuyu Wang, Joe Gattas, Vitor Bottazzi | |
Automated processing tools for BIM/IFC models: construction sequencing and connection code compliance checking | 2021- | Joe Gattas, Vitor Bottazzi | |
Optimisation of timber selection in low-rise residential wall frame construction | 2021- | Jian Jiang, Joe Gattas, Lisa Ottenhaus | |
Novel methods for the study of dynamic and static behaviours of mass timber floor systems | 2021- | Tomas Bravo Tetlak, Cristian Maluk, Joe Gattas | |
Application of remote sensing technologies for the verification and enhancement of network scale bridge data records | 2020- | Gabrielle Hodge, Joe Gattas | |
Alternative uses for under-valued sawmill products in innovative timber structures | 2018- | Harry Mills, Kim Baber, Joe Gattas |
Title | Year(s) | Lead(s) | |
Mouldless manufacture and performance of hybrid FRP-timber thin-walled structures | 2018-2022 | Weiqi Cui, Joe Gattas, Dilum Fernando, Michael Heitzmann | |
Tension strap assembly methods for lightweight and high-speed timber construction | 2019-2021 | Zhuoyang Xin, Joe Gattas, Kim Baber | |
Prefabrication and digital fabrication strategies for large-scale timber construction | 2018-2021 | Joe Gattas, Kim Baber | |
Robotic assembly of mass timber building components | 2019-2020 | Joe Gattas | |
‘Plate House’ folded structures for permanent social housing | 2019 | Joe Gattas | |
Mechanics of digitally-fabricated hinges for folded steel structures | 2016-2021 | Quan Shi, Joe Gattas, Sritawat Kitipornchai | |
Hybrid timber-concrete floor panel systems with a novel hollow core construction | 2015-2020 | Ya Ou, Dilum Fernando, Joe Gattas | |
Structural performance and digital fabrication of low-cost folded sandwich structures | 2016-2020 | Yousef Al-Qaryouti, Joe Gattas, Kim Baber, Dilum Fernando | |
Elastic energy behaviours of curved-crease origami | 2016-2019 | Ting-Uei Lee, Joe Gattas, Yan Chen |