People
The Steel and Composite Structures group is led by Prof Thai. He is an ARC Future Fellow and also the recipient of ARC DECRA Fellowship. He is a member of Standards Australia Committees BD23 (structural steel) and BD32 (composite construction) and the Chief Editor for Shock and Vibration journal. His research interests have been in the areas of machine learning applications in structural engineering, progressive collapse and robustness of buildings, modular tall buildings, modular connections, steel-concrete composite structures, steel structures, cold-formed steel structures, timber structures, high-strength concrete, laminated composites, structural reliability, and advanced analysis and design.
Group photo taken at the IE conference Oct 2023
Research ranking and impact
Based on the 2023 Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists list published on the 4th of October, Prof Thai's single-year and whole-career rankings are:
- 4,345th/210,198 scientists and 23,606th/204,643 scientists in overall ranking
- 13th/1,171 scientists and 36th/1,165 scientists in the Civil Engineering subfield
In Australia, his single-year and whole-career rankings in the Civil Engineering subfield are 1/79 and 4/82, respectively.
His citatations and h-index are:
- Citation = 12,680 (Google Scholar) or 10,250 (Scopus)
- H-index = 64 (Google Scholar) or 58 (Scopus)
- FWCI = 3.3 and Citations per Publication= 61.8 (SciVal)
Contact us
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Engineering Block C, Level 3, Room C313
Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
T: +61 3 8344 6196
E: tai.thai@unimelb.edu.au
W: UoM, ORCID, Google Scholar, Scopus, WoS, ResearchGate
(Seminar by Dr Shan-Shan Huang from The University of Sheffield - 11/12/2023)
(Lalita Lama presented at the ACMSM26 Conference in Auckland in Dec 2023)
(Weixi Wang presented at the ICTWS Conference in Sydney in Nov 2023)
(Farewell lunch for David Medall Martos to back to Valencia - Nov 2023)
(Lunch with Dr Itsaso Arrayago during her visist at UoM in May 2023)
(Arjun Kande presented at the Eurosteel2023 Conference in Amsterdam in Sep 2023)
(Gaurav Swami presented at the Eurosteel2023 Conference in Amsterdam in Sep 2023)
(Quang Du Nguyen presented at the Concrete2023 Conference in Perth in Sep 2023)