Biography

Tan Kang Hai is associate chair (Research) in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He received his Bachelor and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Manchester.He has published over 80 top quality international journal papers and another 90 or so international conference papers. He has often been invited as a reviewer for ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Engineering Structures, ACI Strucutural Journal and Journal of Constructional Steel Research. He also serves as a member of review panel for the UK EPSRC on research proposals related to structural fire engineering. He serves as a technical committee member of a few international conferences, including co-Chairman of Structures-in-Fire 2008 International Conference.He is a professional engineer in singapore, and is currently Deputy Director of Protective Technology Research Centre.

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Research Interest

Structural fire engineering, strut and tie modelling of reinforced concrete structures, progressive collapse analysis and testing of structures, finite element programs for heat transfer analysis and nonlinear structural analysis and evacuation modelling using cellular automata.