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Dr. Xianghe Dai

Associate Professor

Area
School of BEACI
Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies
E-mail
X.Dai@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274234247
Dr. Xianghe Dai
61 publications
1 award

Biography

Dr Xianghe Dai, BEng, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIStructE, FHEA, is an associate professor in Structural Engineering currently. Before he joined the University of Bradford in 2010, He worked in China and the UK as an engineer, senior engineer and research fellow in civil structural, construction and offshore engineering for more than 18 years. Dr Dai obtained his PhD in Civil Structural Engineering from the University of Manchester (UK), MSc. in Civil (Hydraulic) Structural Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and BEng. in Civil Engineering from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China).

Research

Concrete filled steel tubular column
Concrete filled stainless steel columns
Steel beam to beam and beam to column connections
Shear connectors for composite beam and floor system
Demountable shear connection
Slim-floor composite shear beam system
Development of sustainable concrete
Structural experiments
Numerical modelling and analysis

Teaching

Structural Mechanics, Construction Materials, Steel/Concrete Structures and Design, Civil Engineering Feasibility Study and Design.

Professional activities

  • Henry Adams Award, The Institution of Structural Engineers, UK (1 January 2011)

  • Fellow of The Higher Education Academy UK, Fellow (10 September 2014)
  • CEng, Member of The Institution of Structural Engineers, UK, Chartered Engineer (25 October 2013)

Publications

  • Flexural behaviour of composite slim floor beams

    Sheehan, T.; Dai, X.; Yang, J.; Zhou, K.; Lam, D. (2018) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, ASCCS 2018.

  • Experimental study on demountable shear connectors in profiled composite slabs

    Yang, J.; Lam, D.; Dai, X.; Sheehan, T. (2018) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, ASCCS 2018.

  • Use of bolted shear connectors in composite construction

    Dai, X.; Lam, D.; Sheehan, T.; Yang, J.; Zhou, K. (2018) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, ASCCS 2018.

  • Finite element analysis of concrete filled lean duplex stainless steel columns

    Lam, D.; Yang, J.; Dai, X. (2018) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, ASCCS 2018.

  • Experimental studies of composite slim floor beams

    Sheehan T.;Lam D.;Dai X. (2017) Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete VIII - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete, 2017., 181-193.

  • Experimental study of beam to concrete filled elliptical steel column connections

    Sheehan T.; Yang J.; Dai X.; Lam D. (2015) Tubular Structures - Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, ISTS 2015., 79-86.

  • Behaviour of Demountable Shear Connectors in Steel-Concrete Composite Beams

    Lam D.;Dai X.;Saveri E. (2013) Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete VII - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete., 618-631.

  • Finite Element modelling of beam to concrete filled elliptical steel column connections

    Lam D.;Dai X. (2012) Tubular Structures XIV - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, ISTS 2012., 289-296.

  • Structural behaviour of concrete filled elliptical steel hollow sections

    Lam D.;Dai X.;Jamaluddin N. (2012) 11th International Conference on Steel Space and Composite Structures., 61-76.

  • Shape effect on structural fire behaviour of axially loaded Concrete Filled Tubular (CFT) stub columns

    Dai X.;Lam D. (2012) Tubular Structures XIV - Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, ISTS 2012., 575-582.

  • Numerical modelling of concrete-filled stainless steel elliptical hollow sections

    Lam D.;Dai X. (2010) Tubular Structures XIII - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Tubular Structures., 323-331.