Associate Professor Mario Attard
BE PhD MHEd
Honorary Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests
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Finite Strain Isotropic and Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modeling
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 Modelling of Biological Material
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Plasticity Modelling of Confined Concrete
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Fracture in Concrete and Masonry
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Crack Propagation due to Creep
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Ductility of High Strength Concrete Columns
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In-Plane Buckling of Gas Pipelines
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Lateral Buckling of Variable Section Thin-Walled Beams
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
R W Chapman Medal, October 1997, paper “A Rectangular Stress Block for High Strength Concrete based on Probabilistic Analysis".
Vice Chancellor Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009.
Nonlinear structural mechanics, buckling, confinement in concrete, ductility in structures, hyperelastic constitutive modelling, finite strain mechanics, biological material modelling.
My Teaching
Mechanics of Solids; Design of Prestressed Concrete; Design of Timber Structures;