
Professor Alex Ng
Professor
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Alex Ching-Tai Ng is a Professor of the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering. and Technology at The University of Adelaide.
Prof. Ng earned his B.Eng. with First-class honours and M.Phil. from the City University of Hong Kong, and his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland under a full scholarship. During his study, he received a number of awards, such as Arup Best Student Award, Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Student and Best Student Paper Award by the International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, and won the Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenge Competition.
For his research achievements, he has received two prestigious research awards, Australian Research Council - Discovery Early Career Research Award and The Nishino Prize. So far he has obtained research grants with a total amount of AUD$1.3 million. He has worked with industry, e.g. Australian Rail Track Corporation, CRC-ACS and Airbus Limited, and is currently holding an international patent.
Prof. Ng makes active professional influence worldwide through technical committees, conference organisation, and journal and competitive grant refereeing. Notably, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Structures, and Associate Editor of International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring (IJSHM).
Prof. Ng is a member of Executive Committee of Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM), which is formed by more than 30 universities/government agencies with the aim at promoting structural health monitoring research in Australia and worldwide. He also organised the 4th Annual Workshop of ANSHM in 2012. He is a member of National Committee of Applied Mechanics, Engineer Australia.
I specialise in fundamental and applied research in structural health monitoring (SHM). My research interests include SHM, guided wave nondestructive evaluation, system identification, engineering reliability and risk analysis and composite materials.
I am looking for self-motivated students with an interest in pursuing PhD/MPhil degree in the areas of SHM, non-destructive evaluation, ultrasonics guided wave, vibration testing, modal identification. Students interested in applying these techniques in engineering areas are also welcome. Successful applicants will be awarded a full scholarship to cover the full tuition fee and living allowance.
For applicants from China, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and The University of Adelaide are jointly offering postgraduate research scholarships to students from People's Republic of China to undertake a postgraduate research degree at the University of Adelaide.
Prospective candidates with strong academic background please contact me through email directly.
Academics/students, who are employed/studied at other universities, are welcome to visit and collaborate with my research group for a period between one and twelve months.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2022 - ongoing Professor (Level E) University of Adelaide 2018 - 2021 Associate Professor (Level D) University of Adelaide 2014 - 2017 Senior Lecturer (Level C, Tenured) University of Adelaide 2013 - 2016 ARC DECRA Research Fellow (Level C) University of Adelaide 2011 - 2013 Lecturer (Level B) University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2016 Award The Nishino Prize 14th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC14) - - 2013 Fellowship ARC Discovery Early Career Reseracher Award Australian Research Council Australia - 2013 Award Excellence in Peer Review Engineering Structures, Elsevier - - 2009 Award Best Student Paper Award 2nd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering - - 2008 Award Best Journal Article Award The University of Queensland Australia - 2005 Award Arup Best Student Award Hong Kong Institution of Engineer & Institution of Structural Engineer Hong Kong - 2005 Award The Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong - -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title University of Adelaide Australia Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) University of Queensland Australia PhD City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong M.Phil City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong B.Eng. (1st Class Honours) in Structural Engineering -
Research Interests
Acoustics Aerospace Materials Building & Construction Civil Engineering Composite and Hybrid Materials Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control Functional Materials Infrastructure Engineering Mechanical Engineering Metals and Alloy Materials Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation Signal Processing Solid Mechanics Structural Engineering
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Journals
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Books
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Book Chapters
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Conference Papers
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2015 Ng, C. T., & Au, S. K. (2015). Uncertainty in Modal Identification of Structures with Known and Unknown Input Excitations. Poster session presented at the meeting of Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference. Standford, USA. -
Patents
Year Citation 2010 Ng, C., Hitzmann, M., & Lindenberger, B. (2010). WO/2010/142774, Composite Materials.
Competitive Research Grants
- Linkage Project (LP) - (1st Chief Investigator) (2022-2024)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Project: Beyond the Limits of Corrosion Detection in Inaccessible Areas - Discovery Project (DP) - (1st Chief Investigator) (2021-2023)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Project: Next Generation Nondestructive Inspection Using Guided-wave Mixing - Discovery Project (DP) - (2nd Chief Investigator) (2020-2022)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Project: Theory and Methods for Evaluation of Microstructural Fatigue Damage - Discovery Project (DP) - (2nd Chief Investigator) (2016-2018)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Project: Stress Evaluation with Non-linear Guided Waves - Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) -(Co-Chief Investigator) (2015)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Leading Organisation: The University of Adelaide
Project: Development of a World-class Facility for Three-dimensional Dynamic Testing - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) - (Sole Chief Investigator) (2013-2015)
Agency: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Project: In-situ Structural Safety Diagnosis for Composite Materials: Lamb Wave Diffraction Tomography Using Multi-frequency Data - Catalyst Research Grant - (Sole Chief Investigator) (2014-2016)
Agency: Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology Government of South Australia
Project: Cost Effective Stress Monitoring Techniques for Rail Tracks using Guided Waves
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2023 Co-Supervisor Structural Integrity of Advanced Engineering Components Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tahir Abbas 2022 Co-Supervisor Nonlinear behaviour of graphene-nanoplatelet-reinforced macro structural elements Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Kelly Yee 2022 Principal Supervisor Ultrasonic Guided Wave Technique for Inspecting the Inaccessible Areas of Structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Wayne Liang 2021 Principal Supervisor Development of Nonlinear Guided Wave Techniques for Damage Detection of Structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Hankai Zhu 2021 Principal Supervisor Structural health monitoring and model updating using dynamic data for engineering structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zijie Zeng 2021 Principal Supervisor Development of structural health monitoring technique for civil infrastructure Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuqiao Cao 2021 Principal Supervisor Ultrasonic Nondestructive Tesing and Structrual Health Monitoring Involving Guided Waves and Composite Materials Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chang Jiang 2021 Principal Supervisor Damage Detection in Hollow Cylindrical Structures Using Nonlinear Guided Wave Techniques Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Min Gao 2021 Principal Supervisor Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Wave for Next Generation Non-destructive Evaluation and Safety Inspection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tianyi Wang 2020 Principal Supervisor Development of guided wave damage detection technique for engineering structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jinhang Wu 2020 Co-Supervisor Guided Wave-based Health Monitoring of Structures using a Higher-order Finite Element Model Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuan Feng -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Linear and Non-Linear Guided Waves for Damage Detection in Reinforced Concrete Structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ahmed Aseem 2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Investigation of Edge Waves for Defect and Damage Detection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr James Martin Hughes 2018 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Nondestructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques for Damage Detection of Cement-based Materials Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Tingyuan Yin 2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Damage Detection in Steel Railway Bridges using Vibration Data and Machine Learning Approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alireza Ghiasi 2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Damage Detection of Submerged Structures Using Linear and Nonlinear Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xianwen Hu 2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Development of Next-Generation Construction Materials with Graphene Additives Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Van Dac Ho 2018 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Development of Eco-Friendly and High Performance Construction Materials and Technologies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Aliakbar Gholampour 2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Guided wave mixing for damage detection in structural elements Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Juan Carlos Pineda Allen 2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor New Solutions in Finite Strain Elasticity with Applications to the Micromechanics of Weakly Nonlinear Particulate Composites and Damage Modelling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr James David Vidler 2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Investigation of Linear and Nonlinear Torsional Guided Waves in Tubular Structures for Damage Detection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Carman Yeung 2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Damage Detection Using Second Harmonic Generation of Low-Frequency Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yi Yang 2014 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Quantitative Structural Diagnosis of Plate-like Structures using Multi-frequency Lamb Wave Diffraction Tomography Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Gnana Teja Pudipeddi 2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Damage Identification in FRP-Retrofitted Concrete Structures Using Linear and Nonlinear Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hasan Mohseni 2014 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Blast Analysis of Normal Concrete, High Strength Concrete and Ultra-High Performance Concrete Members Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Juechun Xu 2014 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Investigation of Lamb Wave Propagation in Pre-stressed Plates with Applications to Structural Health Monitoring Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Munawwar Ahmad Mohabuth 2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Spectral Finite Element Modelling and Damage Identification of Beam-like Structures Using Linear and Nonlinear Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shuai He 2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor An Analytical Model for Two-layered Composite Beams with Partial Shear Interaction Based on a Higher Order Beam Theory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jie Wen 2013 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Damage Detection of Defects Using Linear and Nonlinear Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Reza Soleimanpour 2012 - 2016 Co-Supervisor A Method for Compensation of Changing Environmental and Operational Conditions for Structural Health Monitoring Using Guided Waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Pouria Aryan 2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Innovative Multi-level Methodology Incorporating the Techniques of Finite Element Modelling and Multimodal Optimization for Concept Design of Advanced Grid Stiffened Composite Panels against Buckling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Liang Huang 2011 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Axial Compressive Behavior of Actively Confined and FRP-Confined Concretes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jian Lim
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2016 - ongoing Member National Committee on Applied Mechanics, Engineers Australia - Australia 2015 - ongoing Board Member Best Student Paper Competition Committee of Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, ASCE ASCE United States 2014 - ongoing Member Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), ASCE Dynamics Committee United States 2011 - ongoing Board Member Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring - Australia -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2013 - ongoing Member International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE) United States 2012 - ongoing Member Global Science and Technology Forum - 2011 - ongoing Member Australian Steel Institute (ASI) Australia 2010 - ongoing Member ARC-Australian Research Network for Advanced Material (ARNAM) Australia -
Editorial Boards
Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country 2022 - ongoing Editor-In-chief Engineering Structures Elsevier Australia 2020 - ongoing Board Member Structural Durability and Health Monitoring TechScience Australia 2018 - ongoing Board Member International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering - - 2015 - ongoing Board Member Frontiers in Built Environment: Structural Materials - - 2015 - ongoing Board Member Frontiers in Built Environment: Earthquake Engineering - - 2014 - ongoing Associate Editor Structural Health Monitoring An International Journal of (SHMIJ) - -
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