Dr Aliakbar Gholampour

Senior Lecturer

College of Science and Engineering

place Tonsley (3.18)
1284 South Road, Clovelly Park SA 5042

Dr Aliakbar Gholampour is a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering at the College of Science and Engineering of Flinders University. He completed his PhD in Structural Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2019. He was then a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne till July 2020.

He has extensive experience in research on the development of sustainable construction/building materials and technologies. He worked in ARC-Training Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing (ARC-CAMPH) at the University of Melbourne and has been project manager and research leader of three research projects in $2.7M Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) round 8.

Research Interests:

- Infrastructure Materials Engineering:

  • Recycling waste materials, industrial by-products and natural fibres for the development of sustainable construction materials
  • Cementitious composites containing nanomaterials
  • Smart and multi-functional materials for construction
  • 3D printable concrete for automated construction
  • High performance and ultra-high performance composite
  • Fibre-reinforced concrete composite
  • Constitutive and finite element modelling of fibre-reinforced concrete

- Structural Engineering:

  • Behaviour, performance and design of civil infrastructure
  • Assessment and management of deteriorating civil infrastructure
  • Infrastructure resilience and sustainability
  • Construction, repair and rehabilitation practices for civil infrastructure
Qualifications

PhD (Structural Engineering), MSc (Structural Engineering), BSc (Civil Engineering)

Honours, awards and grants
  • Emerging Research Leader Award, Flinders University (2023).
  • Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers, Flinders University (2022).
  • World's top 2% scientist, Stanford University and Elsevier (2022).
  • Research Infrastructure Fund, Flinders University (2022).
  • Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (DVCR) Research Investment Fund, Flinders University (2021).
  • World's top 2% scientist, Stanford University and Elsevier (2021).
  • Honorary Fellowship, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, (2020 - ).
  • College of Science and Engineering Research Grant, Flinders University (2020).
  • Research Grant on Recycling Waste Plastics for Manufacturing Prefabricated Building Components, CRC-P round 8 (2020).
  • Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, The University of Adelaide (2019).
  • Travel grant for National Conference, The University of Adelaide (2018).
  • Travel grant for International Conference, The University of Adelaide (2016).
  • Travel grant for International Conference, Walter & Dorothy Duncan Trust (2016).
  • Adelaide Scholarship International (ASI), The University of Adelaide (2015).
  • Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Monash University (2015).
  • Exceptional Talent Award, University of Tehran (2011).
Topic coordinator
ENGR8862 Structural Engineering 1 GE
ENGR2741 Mechanics and Structures
ENGR8791 Mechanics and Structures GE
ENGR7742 Advanced Concrete Analysis and Design
ENGR2842 Structural Engineering 1
Topic lecturer
ENGR2741 Mechanics and Structures
ENGR8791 Mechanics and Structures GE
ENGR2842 Structural Engineering 1
ENGR7742 Advanced Concrete Analysis and Design
ENGR8862 Structural Engineering 1 GE
Supervisory interests
Building resilience
Civil engineering
Composite structures and materials
Concrete
Concrete composites
FRP-confinement
Graphene
High-performance concrete columns
Nanocomposite
Solid waste management
Sustainability
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Associate supervisor: Axial Compressive Behaviour of Double Skinned Tubular Columns (Flinders University) (1)
Completion
Associate supervisor: Shrinkage behaviour of 3D printing concrete (The University of Melbourne) (1)
Expert for media contact
Nanotechnology
Sustainability
3D concrete printing
Eco-friendly construction materials
Fibre-reinforced polymer composites
Geopolymer
Graphene-reinforced concrete
High performance and ultra-high performance concrete
Nano-reinforced cementitious composites
Recycling waste materials in construction
Structural Engineering
Sustainable construction
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Media expertise
  • Nanotechnology
  • Sustainability
Interests
  • 3D concrete printing
  • Eco-friendly construction materials
  • Fibre-reinforced polymer composites
  • Geopolymer
  • Graphene-reinforced concrete
  • High performance and ultra-high performance concrete
  • Nano-reinforced cementitious composites
  • Recycling waste materials in construction
  • Structural Engineering
  • Sustainable construction