Short Resume:
- Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University
- Emeritus Member of the College of Structural Engineers, Engineers Australia
- Life member, Clare hall, Cambridge, UK
- Chairman, Australian Group, International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE)
Memberships:
- International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)
- Australian Steel Institute
- Concrete Institute of Australia
- Australasian Composite Construction Society
Currently he is a member of IABSE Working Commission 7 on Sustainability, the Engineers Australia President’s Task Force on Sustainability, and the National Trust (Victoria) Industrial Heritage Committee on Metal Road Bridges
A major initiative following the disastrous Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 26th December 2004 has been the formation of a group to develop and implement a Guide for disaster reduction on the Coasts of the Indian Ocean. For the current status see the Progress Report (pdf 408kb).
After graduatingBCE (1957) and MEngSc (1960) from the University of Melbourne and PhD (1961) from the University of Cambridge, UK, Paul Grundy worked with Civil and Civic Pty Ltd and Hardcastle and Richards Pty Ltd, consulting engineers, until he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University where he served from January 1966 to his retirement from the Chair of Structural Engineering in December 2000.
His persistent interest has been the lifetime performance of structures in hostile environments under dynamic and repeated loading. This has resulted in research into load spectrums, fatigue and fracture, incremental collapse, risk assessment and life extension applied to cranes, bridges, ships (bulk carriers) and offshore structures with wrought iron, steel, concrete, composite and FRP materials. Particular structural types of interest include tubular structures and joints, grouted tubular splices, steel/concrete composite beams with stud shear connectors, bridge deck systems and heritage structures. A software package BRAWIM® has been developed for detailed modelling of load effects on highway bridges derived from weigh-in-motion data. This has been used to develop fatigue loading rules for AS5100, Austroads Bridge Design Code.
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