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Australian Chapter of International Associate of Protective Structures
Newsletter
Contents:
(May 2015)
About IAPS-AUS……………………………..………….……………..............................………2
Executive Committee of IAPS-AUS………………………………..............................….…2
Chairman’s message…………..……………………………………..............................………3
The 3rd International Conference on Protective Structures …………………........….4
ICPS3 Conference Awards ……………………..……………………………..........................6
ICPS3 Best Young researcher Awards……..……………………………...........................7
Upcoming Forum Update …………………………………………...............................…….8
National Infrastructure Protection requirements…............................................8
Upcoming workshop for IAPS-AUS.....................................................................8
National Defence Award goes to the APTES Group…………………......……......……..9
Social Media for IAPS-AUS … …………………………..………….…………………...........…10
Governance of IAPS-AUS………………………………….…...........................................10
Newsletter Contacts…………..……………………………………………..............................10
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About IAPS-AUS
The International Association of Protective Structures (IAPS) was formed in 2010 to address all
the relevant aspects of the subject of protective structures in the built environment, including:
structural mechanics, soil mechanics, traffic engineering, waterways as well as safety studies and
risk analysis in both research and practice.
The Australian Chapter (IAPS-AUS) was founded by Professor Mark Stewart in June 2011 with
the following aims:
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Promote research and development associated with security and protective structures in
Australia.
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Focus IAPS-AUS researchers on the physical protection of built infrastructure.
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Bring experts together.
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Encourage multi-disciplinary approaches to security and protective structures.
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Foster collaboration between research institutions and government and industry.
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Provide high-level advice to government and industry.
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Publicise IAPS through special issues in journals and special sessions at conferences.
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Promote membership of IAPS.
Executive Committee of IAPS-AUS
Chair: Assoc Prof. Chengqing Wu, The University of Adelaide.
Vice-Chair: Assoc Prof. Alex Remennikov, The University of Wollongong.
Immediate Past Chair: Prof. Mark Stewart, The University of Newcastle.
Executive Members:
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Prof. Hong Hao, Curtin University
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Prof. Priyan Mendis, University of Melbourne
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Prof. Brian Uy, University of New South Wales
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Mr Nimal Perea, Queensland University of Technology
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Dr Norbert Burman, DSTO
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Dr Ken Dale, Geoscience Australia
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Chairman’s Message (May 2015)
Associate Professor Chengqing Wu
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering,
The University of Adelaide
First of all, I would like to congratulate Professor Mark Stewart for successfully hosting The 3rd
International Conference on Protective Structures (ICPS3) in Newcastle in February. Mark was a
wonderful host and provided us delicacies for lunch, and such delicious food and good wines for
the Conference banquet; I especially enjoyed the experience of the gun salutes before the banquet.
The conference attracted a total of 55 people from Australia and was a great success for our
members and our community.
I would also like to congratulate Tuan Ngo and his team receiving a DMTC Defence Capability
Improvement Award. This is a great achievement and an indication of national recognition of the
work for their current and future research work.
As I emphasized in our last newsletter, an important role of IAPS-AUS is to educate and to
better inform engineers, industry and government. Thus IAPS-AUS will organize a workshop to
bring our academics, engineers, industry and government agencies together in Adelaide on
December 7 2015. I am looking forward to seeing you during the workshop
During the ICPS3 Conference I discussed with our committee members and key stakeholders in
Australia, all of them are interested to organize a workshop to bring our academics, engineers,
industry and government agencies together so that different stakeholders can find opportunities to
collaborate in the future. After discussion with committee members we determine to organize of a
workshop in Adelaide on December 7 2015 to achieve this goal. If you have any good idea and
suggestion about how to run the workshop, please don’t hesitate to tell me about that.
According to the Governance of IAPS-AUS, we should call for Election of Executive Members by
the end of this year (Dec 2015). The process of the Election should be similar to the IAPS election
during the ICPS3. Currently we have 9 committee members and we may need to nominate more
people to join the Executive Committee. Please contact me if you have any suggestion about the
nominations for Election of Executive Committee Members.
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The 3rd International Conference on Protective Structures.
Newcastle, 3-6 Feb 2015
The 3rd International Conference on Protective Structures (ICPS3) was held in Newcastle on
3-6 February 2015. There were over 90 presentations, and 110 registrants. Each paper was
peer-reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee to ensure high quality submissions.
Approximately 50% of attendees were from Australia with an excellent turnout from DSTO and
Defence, and the remainder from 19 countries. There was a very good mix of defence, industry and
academe which made for stimulating presentations and discussions.
Keynote speakers were:
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Air Vice-Marshal Kym ‘Koz’ Osley, AM, CSC (retd.) from the Royal Australian Air
Force, with his presentation on: The Science of Breaking People's Stuff: A Warfighter's
Perspective.
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Dr Jadranka Sunde, from the Weapons Combat Systems Division, Defence Science &
Technology Organisation, Australia, who presented: Predicting and Mitigating Terrorist
Explosive Threats - Australia's National Capability.
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Dr Len Schwer, from Schwer Engineering & Consulting Services, California, with a
presentation on: A Need for Quality Experiments: The Role of Verification & Validation in
Computational Mechanics.
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Professor Hong Hao, from Curtin University of Technology, Australia, who gave the final
key note presentation on: Fallacies in Analysis of Structural Response to Blast Loads.
The conference banquet was held at Fort Scratchley, and a highlight was the firing of the 6-inch
guns. Two photographs (one of the gun firing and another of the conference group behind the gun)
are shown on the next page.
ICPS3 was chaired by Professor Mark Stewart, Director of the Centre for Infrastructure
Performance & Reliability at The University of Newcastle, and Dr Michael Netherton acted as
Conference Secretary and Treasurer. The organisers were particularly grateful to PPG Industries
and the University of Newcastle's Defence Research Hub for their sponsorship of ICPS3.
The Conference Proceedings: “Design and Analysis of Protective Structures: Proceedings of the
3rd International Conference on Protective Structures (ICPS3)” are available for download via
NOVA
(The
University
of
Newcastle's
Research
http://hdl.handle.net /1959.13/1058001
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Online
facility)
at
this
link:
Professor Mark Stewart fires the 6-inch gun at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle.
A group photo of ICPS3 Conference Delegates at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle.
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ICPS3 Conference Awards:
Congratulations to Mirmomeni, M., Zhang, S., Heidarpour, A., Zhao, X.L., Al-Mahaidi, R.,
Packer, J.A., Wu, C.Q. to receive the best paper award on: “Size dependency and boundary effects
on the mechanical properties of concrete filled steel tubes under impact load” from The 3rd
International Conference on Protective Structures, Newcastle, Australia, 3-6 February 2015. This
work is also part of an APC Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project: “Composite
Tubular Construction Subject to Impact and Blast Loading” led by Prof. Xiao-Ling Zhao from
Monash University with collaboration with the University of Adelaide and the University of
Toronto.
Field blast tests have been conducted in Israel led by Prof. Packer and in China led by Prof. Wu.
The picture below shows the team members during The 3rd International Conference on
Protective Structures in Newcastle.
The award winning team: (from left to right) Cameron Ritchie, Jeffrey Packer, David
Yankelevsky, Xiao-Ling Zhao, Chengqing Wu, Amin Heidarpour and Mahsa Mirmomeni,
ICPS3, Newcastle
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ICPS3 – Best Young Researcher Awards.
There were twenty delegates presenting papers at the conference who were eligible for the hotly
contested: "Best Young Researcher Award". In the end, the IAPS-AUS Executive Committee
decided to award not one, but four winners in this category. The following delegates (listed in
alphabetical order) were each recognised for their papers, which were considered equally as:
"The best paper published in the 3rd ICPS proceedings, by a presenting author below 35 years of
age":
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Dimitrios Kakogiannis (et al). Civil and Material Engineering Department/Royal Military
Academy, Renaissancelaan 30, b-1000, Brussels, Belgium: "Modelling the deformation of TI64
sheets under explosive loading".
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Mahsa Mirmomeni (et al), Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne,
VIC 3800, Australia: "Size dependency and boundary effects on the mechanical properties of
concrete filled steel tubes under impact load".
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Vanessa
L.
Pickerd
(and
Pat
W.
McCarthy). Maritime Division, Defence
Science
and
Melbourne,
"Damage
Technology
VIC,
of
Organisation.
3207,
welded
Australia:
structures
from
internal explosive loading".
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Xihong
Zhang
(and
Hong
Hao).
School of Civil, Environmental, and Mining
Engineering, the University of Western
Australia,
WA, 6009,
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley,
Australia: "Fragmentation
characteristics of tempered glass windows
under air blast wave".
Dr Zhang receives his Best Young Researcher
Award from the President of the IAPS, Professor
Norbert Gebbeken.
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Upcoming Forum Update
A forum on Blast and other Extreme Events -Design and Modelling Forum for Practitioners &
Researchers will be held on 14th May 9.00am – 3.00pm, Canberra. A number of eminent
researchers will present their work during the forum.
The Blast and other extreme events - Design and Modelling Forum will provide participants
with a valuable overview of case studies, modelling tools and research projects in this area covering
terrorist attacks, accidental explosions, mining explosions, floods, earthquakes, bushfires, risk and
safety management etc. Leading practitioners, researchers and clients are invited to make
presentations or attend. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact Program
Co-Chairs: Prof. Priyan Mendis & Dr Tuan Ngo.
National Infrastructure Protection requirements
DSTO is coordinating the National Infrastructure Protection requirements elicitation through a
workshop to be help in Canberra in May 2015. Following on from this workshop, DSTO will be
partnering with Industry and Academia to address these requirements.
If you would like any more information on this workshop, please contact:
Dr Jadranka Sunde:
• Group Leader, Weapons Effects and Protection
• Task Leader for NS task, WCSD
• Weapons and Combat Systems Division
• Bld 190, DSTO Edinburgh
• P 08 7389 6301
• F 08 7389 0023
• M 0438 829 959
Upcoming workshop for IAPS-AUS
As detailed in the Chairman's Message, a workshop will be held in Adelaide (7th Dec 2015)
with a view to find opportunities for future collaboration between Academics, Engineers, Industry
Leaders and Government Agencies. Please contact Associate Professor Chengqing Wu with your
additional thoughts and suggestions for this valuable workshop. Further details will be released
soon.
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National Defence Award goes to the APTES Group
Dr Tuan Ngo and his research team from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the
University of Melbourne have received a DMTC Defence Capability Improvement Award.
This award is a national recognition of the work they have done in creating new protective and
light-weight materials to enhance the safety of military vehicles.
Dr Ngo and his team have worked closely with the Thales group design team, and colleagues
from the University of Queensland. The Australian Defence Force requires military vehicles that
are smaller and lighter and this is influencing the types of vehicles being developed by defence
companies.
Dr Tuan Ngo receives a Defence Capability Improvement Award,
DMTC Conference, Canberra.
Dr Ngo has been developing a solution for minimising the weight of military vehicles, while
maintaining and improving upon structural performance, blast and impact protection levels and
endurance requirements. He also developed new innovative hybrid composite structures, which
significantly enhance the protection of vehicles, structures and human against shocks and impacts.
Through the use of lightweight materials, exploration of new design concepts and using state-ofthe-art structural optimisation tools, engineering solutions have been developed that will be
incorporated into the next "Hawkei" build at Thales. The award was presented at the recent
Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) conference in Canberra on 17 March. Further
details are available at the following link: http://National Defence Award goes to APTES Group
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Social Media for IAPS-AUS
Follow us at these social media and webpages
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IAPS Homepage:
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IAPS-AUS Homepage: http://www.iapsaustralia.org/
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IAPS-AUS Blog:
http://www.protectivestructures.org/
http://www.iapsaustralia.org/blog/
Governance of IAPS-AUS
Governance of IAPS-AUS is via the Executive Committee positions:
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Chair (duties include acting as Secretary, Treasurer, etc.)
Vice-Chair
Immediate Past Chair
Seven committee members
Other information relating to membership of the Executive Committee is:
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Two-year term with 2-year extension if re-elected (maximum term is 4 years)
Must be member of IAPS-AUS.
Meet annually once in Australia.
Meet biannually at International Conference on Protective Structures (ICPS).
Organise and liaise annual meeting and/or workshop in Australia.
No membership fee.
Newsletter Contacts
Associate Professor Chengqing Wu (Chairman)
• School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering,
• The University of Adelaide North Terrace SA 5005, Australia.
• Email: [email protected]
• Tel: 61-8-83134834.
Dr Michael Netherton (Newsletter Editor)
• Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability,
• The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, 2321, Australia.
• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (02) 4921 5524
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