Jun Shang KUANG
Professor of Civil Engineering Department
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
Biography
Dr. Jun Shang KUANG is Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Jun Shang KUANG did his doctorate at The University of Cambridge.His current research projects include:
* Enhancing the ductility of non-seismically designed RC structures
* Seismic behaviour and analysis of RC wide beam-column joints and beam-column knee joints
* Seismic performance of infilled RC frames: reversed-cyclic and shake-table tests, computational simulations
* Seismic vulnerability assessment of tall buildings
* Nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete
Research Interest
Seismic design and behaviour of buildings and infrastructures, reinforced concrete structures, seismic assessment of tall buildings, large-scale laboratory testing, computational modelling of concrete/masonry structures