Dr Bill Wong

Title: Senior Lecturer

Contact Information:

E-mail:	bill.wong@eng.monash.edu.au
Phone:	+61 3 9905 1562
Fax:	+61 3 9905 4944
Room:	121
Building:	60
Campus:	Clayton

Links:

Bill Wong Personal folder

Teaching Commitments:

Structural mechanics, steel design, plastic analysis and design.

Qualifications:

B.Sc (Eng.), PhD, MIEAust, CPEng, MICE, CEng

Research:

Fire engineering -
Structural behaviour of structural components and structures under fire conditions, heat transfer process between fire and construction materials, analytical methods, tubular members, plate buckling at elevated temperatures.
Nonlinear behaviour of structures -
Geometric and material nonlinear behaviour of structures, buckling behaviour of steel structures, spreadsheet methods for nonlinear analysis, effects of foundation settlements on structures. Structural design - Plastic design method, design under fire conditions, industrial frames.

STIP-3 (xls, 750kb): Steel temperature prediction program

Fire short course (.pdf file): Steel and concrete to Eurocodes

Publications:

Sample papers:

1. Wong, M.B. (2005), “Universal design charts for insulation of steel members in fire”. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 61, 1447-1456.

Wong, M.B. (2005), "Size effect on temperatures of structural steel in fire". ASCE, J. of Structural Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 1, January, 16-20.

M. B. Wong & M. Szafranski, (2004), "Elastic method for design of 3-D steel structures subject to fire". Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 60 (7), 1095-1108.

Wong, M.B. & Ghojel, J.I.. (2003), "Sensitivity analysis of heat transfer formulations for insulated structural components". Fire Safety Journal, 38, 187-201.

Wong, M.B. & Ghojel, J.I. (2003), "Spreadsheet method for temperature calculation of unprotected steelwork subject to fire". The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings,12(2), 83-92.

Wong, M.B. (2002), "World trend for the development of performance-based fire codes for steel structures". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures, Hong Kong, December, 1071-1078.

Wong, M.B. (2001), "Elastic and plastic methods for numerical modelling of steel structures subject to fire". Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 57 (1), 1-14.

Wong, M.B., Ghojel, J.I. & Patterson, N.L. (2000), "Modelling of plastic strength of composite tubular members under elevated temperature conditions". Structural Failure and Plasticity, Proceedings of The 7th International Symposium on Structural Failure and Plasticity, Melbourne, 629-633. (Editors: X.L. Zhao and R.H. Grzebieta)

Wong, M.B. (1999), "An upper bound approach for design of frames under fire conditions". 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics, Singapore, December.

Wong, M.B. and Tan, K. H. (1999), "Local buckling of steel plates at elevated temperatures". Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Sydney, December.

Wong, M.B. and Patterson, N. (1996), "Unit Load Factor Method for Limiting Temperature Analysis of Steel Frames with Elastic Buckling Failure Mode". Fire Safety Journal, 27, 113-122.

Short Resume:

Bill Wong is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his Bachelor Degree at University of London, UK and his PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
His academic and research interests include steel structures design, using both elastic and plastic methods, nonlinear structural analysis and its applications to design of steel frames in fire. He has carried out consulting work for both the steel industry and distance education. His recent research interest is in the area of fire engineering. Bill is an advocate for the use of plastic design method in structural design and has developed simple methods for analysis using both computers and manual techniques. These techniques have now been built into the syllabus in the undergraduate Civil Engineering course at Monash University.