Shaun Devaney

• From: Galway, Ireland
• Qualifications:
  • Higher Certificate in Civil Engineering, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (2006)
  • BEng (Ord) in Civil Engineering, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (2007)
  • MEng in Civil Engineering, University of Edinburgh (2010)
• Supervisors: Prof. Asif Usmani, Dr Stephen Welch and Dr Antonios Giannopoulos
• Postgraduate study: Started 2010

PhD Project:

Development of Software for Reliability Based Design of Steel Framed Structures in Fire

The main aim of the project is to develop a robust, user-friendly package as an aid to engineers in designing steel frame structures in fire. The focus of the software will be on the analysis of various types of member in a composite structure in post-flashover compartment fires. The software will be based on simple analytical methods which will allow designers to take advantage of the recent advances in the understanding of structures in fire. The software will include different types of analysis including simple analysis, reliability analysis and performance-based analysis. The type of output from each analysis varies and will include load-deflection behaviour, stress distribution, probability of failure and the probability of associated damage.

Project funded by EPSRC and Tata Steel.

Previous projects:

Elephant's foot buckling in cylindrical shells under global bending (MEng Thesis)

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