Research Seminars
Departmental research seminars are open to all members of staff and postgraduate students of the University of Bath. Seminars are held on Thursdays in room 6E2.1. Bring your lunch with you if you like. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served from 13:05, talks start at 13:15 and we must vacate the room by 14:05.
Unless otherwise indicated, speakers are from this department.
An asterisk indicates students transferring from MPhil to PhD.
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Research seminars are now on hold for the inter-semester break and will restart at the beginning of February. We are now taking bookings for Semester 2, so please get in touch if you are interested in giving a seminar or have a guest visiting the department who might be persuaded to present their research.
Semester 2| 9th Feb | John Harding (Ramboll) |
Concept Design Computing |
| 16th Feb | Juliet Odgers | The Garden as a Laboratory: The work of John Evelyn |
| 23rd Feb | Chris Williams | Optimum Shapes for Shell Structures: From steel and glass to timber, masonry and adobe |
| 1st Mar | Paul Livesey | Concrete Cancer in the UK: The problem and its control |
| 8th Mar | David Coley | Are Buildings Evil? |
| 15th Mar | Paul Shepherd | How Maths Built the Olympic Stadium |
| 22nd Mar | Rocky Ruggiero* | Santo Spirito, Florence: Brunelleschi, the Opera and the Quartiere |
| 29th Mar | Ian Pritchett (LimeTechnology) |
Sustainable Building Materials Using Lime and Hemp |
| 19th Apr | Tim Mander (Integral) |
A Practitioners Experience in Solid Timber Buildings and the Integration of Modcell |
| 26th Apr | Tim Yates (BRE) |
Developments in Architecture and Engineering and the Selection of Natural Stone: 1850 - present |
| 3rd May | Elena Marco (UWE) |
The New Glut |
Semester 1
| 6th Oct | Carina Ferreira* | Numerical Modelling of Peruvian Earthen Heritage Buildings for Seismic Retrofitting |
| 13th Oct | Tom Reynolds* Jonathan Skinner* |
Tall timber buildings, swaying in the breeze (but not too much) Structural Toppings for the Upgrade of Existing Timber Floors to Reduce Vibration |
| 20th Oct | Jacinto Canivell (University of Seville) |
Evaluation of Historical Rammed-Earth Walls in Spain |
| 27th Oct | Victoria Stephenson* Glavije Amirjamshidi* |
Water Ingress in Historic Walls Assessing post-earthquake repair methods to strengthen earthen structures |
| 3rd Nov | Xian Gai | A Novel FRP Stay-In-Place Structural Formwork for Concrete Slabs |
| 10th Nov | Kaloyana Kostova* Dan Maskell* |
A New Form of Architecture for Concrete Structures Modern Earth Masonry: The Pursuit of 1N/mm² |
| 17th Nov | Junzhe Wang* Stella Kioy* |
Investigation of Spandrel Wall Failure on Masonry Arch Bridges Movement Characteristics of Lime Mortared Masonry |
| 24th Nov | Giovanni Pesce* | Chemistry of lime based materials: Some useful things to know |
| 1st Dec | Hector Archila* | Bamboo composites for construction |
| 8th Dec | Anne Sigrid Nordby (NTNU Trondheim) |
The Stavne Timber Block: Developing a building system of reclaimed wood |
| 15th Dec | Giles Mortimer (Integral Engineering) |
Design Optimization and the Pylon Competition |