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

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Structural mechanics and stability
  • Sustainable materials
  • High strength steel
  • Thermal effects on structures
  • Infrastructure sustainability

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About Yanni Bouras

Yanni Bouras is a lecturer with the College of Engineering and Science. He has been a part of Victoria University since 2011 when he begun his undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering. Yanni then completed his PhD with Victoria University in Structural Engineering. His doctoral research investigated the thermal stability of concrete and concrete-filled-steel tubular arches.  

In addition to structural mechanics, Yanni holds research interests in sustainable construction and has initiated research projects on the development of building products containing recycled waste materials, and infrastructure sustainability rating tools.

Yanni has taught across both the Engineering and Built Environment disciplines in the College of Engineering and Science. He has experience teaching structural analysis and design, construction techniques and operations, land surveying and building science.  

Qualifications

  • BEng (Hons), Victoria University, Australia, 2015
  • PhD, Victoria University, Australia, 2020
  • GCTE, Victoria University, Australia, 2020

Key publications

Yanni has over 11 publications, with a selection listed here.


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

Year Citation
2018 Bouras, Y., Torres-Don, E., & Vrcelj, Z. (180101). Thermal in-plane buckling of concrete-filled steel tubular arches Paper presented at Tubular Structures XVI - Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Tubular Structures, ISTS 2017 (pp. 101-108).

doi: 10.1201/9781351210843-13
2017 Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (170101). Effect of transient thermal strain on the stability of shallow concrete arches Paper presented at Mechanics of Structures and Materials: Advancements and Challenges - Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, ACMSM24 2016 (pp. 963-970).

Year Citation
2021 Haigh, R., Sandanayake, M., Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (210801). A review of the mechanical and durability performance of kraft-fibre reinforced mortar and concrete. Construction and Building Materials, 297 (123759-123759).

doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.123759
2020 Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (201201). Out-of-plane stability of concrete-filled steel tubular arches at elevated temperatures. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 187

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105916
2020 Sandanayake, M., Bouras, Y., Haigh, R., & Vrcelj, Z. (201102). Current sustainable trends of using waste materials in concretea decade review. Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(22), (1-38).

doi: 10.3390/su12229622
2020 Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (200101). In-plane stability of shallow concrete arches under fire. Journal of Structural Fire Engineering,

doi: 10.1108/JSFE-11-2018-0039
2019 Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (191101). Thermal in-plane stability of concrete-filled steel tubular arches. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 163

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2019.105130
2018 Bouras, Y., Zorica, D., Atanackovic, T. M., & Vrcelj, Z. (180301). A non-linear thermo-viscoelastic rheological model based on fractional derivatives for high temperature creep in concrete. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 55 (551-568).

doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2017.11.028
2017 Bouras, Y., & Vrcelj, Z. (171201). Non-linear in-plane buckling of shallow concrete arches subjected to combined mechanical and thermal loading. Engineering Structures, 152 (413-423).

doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.09.029
2015 Atanackovic, T. M., Bouras, Y., & Zorica, D. (150723). Nano- and viscoelastic Beck s column on elastic foundation. Acta Mechanica, 226(7), (2335-2345).

doi: 10.1007/s00707-015-1327-1

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (2) Associate supervisor

Professional memberships

  • Professional member, Engineers Australia
  • Accredited Professional, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia