Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Steel-concrete composite structures
  • Structural fire engineering
  • Steel structures
  • Concrete structures
  • Structural optimization

Available to supervise research students

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About Qing Quan Liang

Dr Qing Quan (Stephen) Liang is the Founder and President of the Australian Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (AASCCS), a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and was a member of the ASCE Technical Committees on Optimal Structural Design and Composite Construction. He received the ASCE 2004 State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award from ASCE. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Steel and Composite Structures-An International Journal.

Dr Liang has contributed over 100 publications in the research areas of topology optimization, computational mechanics, steel-concrete composite structures, structural fire engineering, steel structures, and concrete structures. He is the sole author of the research book entitled "Performance-Based Optimization of Structures: Theory and Applications" (2004, Spon Press) and of the textbook entitled "Analysis and Design of Steel and Composite Structures" (2014, CRC Press), and the co-author of the research books entitled "Nonlinear Analysis of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns" (2015, Scholar’s Press) and "Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns" (2018, CRC Press). His books have been well received worldwide.

Qing Quan Liang on Google Scholar

Qualifications

  • PhD, Victoria University of Technology, Australia, 2002
  • GradCert Tertiary Education, Victoria University, Australia, 2011
  • ME (Hons), The University of Wollongong, Australia, 1998

Key publications

Qing Quan has over 119 publications, with a selection listed here.


A more comprehensive list of Qing Quan's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.

Year Citation
2018 Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q., & Hadi, M. NS. (181218). Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns (1st). Boca Raton and London: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.
2015 Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q., & Hadi, M. NS. (150630). Nonlinear Analysis of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns (1st Edition). Germany: Scholar's Press.
2014 Liang, Q. Q. (141023). Analysis and Design of Steel and Composite Structures (1st Edition). Boca Raton and London: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Year Citation
2020 Ahmed, M., Liang, Q. Q., Patel, V. I., & Hadi, M. NS. (200315). Nonlinear analysis of square concrete-filled double steel tubular slender columns incorporating preload effects. Engineering Structures, 207

doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.110272
2020 Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q., & Hadi, M. NS. (200201). Numerical simulations of circular high strength concrete-filled aluminum tubular short columns incorporating new concrete confinement model. Thin-Walled Structures, 147

doi: 10.1016/j.tws.2019.106492
2019 Kamil, G. M., Liang, Q. Q., & Hadi, M. NS. (191201). Nonlinear post-fire simulation of concentrically loaded rectangular thin-walled concrete-filled steel tubular short columns accounting for progressive local buckling. Thin-Walled Structures, 145

doi: 10.1016/j.tws.2019.106423
2019 Kamil, G. M., Liang, Q. Q., & Hadi, M. NS. (191201). Fiber element simulation of interaction behavior of local and global buckling in axially loaded rectangular concrete-filled steel tubular slender columns under fire exposure. Thin-Walled Structures, 145

doi: 10.1016/j.tws.2019.106403
2019 Ahmed, M., Liang, Q. Q., Patel, V. I., & Hadi, M. NS. (191015). Experimental and numerical studies of square concrete-filled double steel tubular short columns under eccentric loading. Engineering Structures, 197

doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109419
2019 Ahmed, M., Liang, Q. Q., Patel, V. I., & Hadi, M. NS. (191001). Local-global interaction buckling of square high strength concrete-filled double steel tubular slender beam-columns. Thin-Walled Structures, 143

doi: 10.1016/j.tws.2019.106244
2017 Liang, Q. Q. (170115). Nonlinear analysis of circular double-skin concrete-filled steel tubular columns under axial compression. Engineering Structures, 131 (639-650).

doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.10.019

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Principal supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Principal supervisor
2 PhD by Publication Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Principal supervisor
PhD by Publication (2) Principal supervisor

Teaching activities & experience

Currently, Dr Liang teaches the following units:

  • NEC2201 Introduction to Structural Engineering Design (Steel Design)
  • NEC4102 Structural Engineering Design 2 (Steel and Composite Structures)
  • NEF4206 Advanced Engineering Design (Design of Multistory Steel Buildings)
  • NEF4207 Engineering Applications (Prestressed Concrete Structures).

 

Dr Liang has taught the following units:

  • VAN1022 Solid Mechanics 1
  • VAC4021 Structural Engineering Analysis and Design 1
  • VAC4022 Structural Engineering Analysis and Design 2
  • VAC4091 Structural Engineering Design 1
  • VAC4092 Structural Engineering Design 2
  • VAC4191 Structural Engineering Design 2
  • VAC4192 Structural Engineering Design 3
  • NEC2102 Solid Mechanics
  • NEC4201 Civil Engineering Design 2 (Design of Multistory Steel Buildings)
  • NEC4202 Structural Engineering Design 3 (Prestressed Concrete Structures).

Awards

Year Award
2004

The ASCE 2004 State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Professional memberships

  • Founder and President, Australian Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Member, The Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
  • Member, Australian Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Member, The International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics