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ProfessorRajesh Dhakal

Head of Department

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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  • Head of Department
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Professor
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • +6433695948 (Work)
  • Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E420

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

At Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury (since 2003)
ENCI230 Mechanics of Materials (undergraduate)
ENCI231 Structural Mechanics 1 (undergraduate)
ENCI331 Structural Mechanics 2 (undergraduate)
ENCI234 Structural Engineering 1 (undergraduate)
ENCI334 Computational Mechanics (undergraduate)
ENCN231 Solid Mechanics (undergraduate)
ENCI335 Structural Analysis (undergraduate)
ENCI429 Structural Systems (undergraduate)
ENCI438 Introduction to Earthquake Engineering (undergraduate)
ENCI630 Nonlinear Concrete Mechanics (postgraduate)
ENCI669 Seismic Loss Assessment (postgraduate)
ENEQ641 Nonlinear Mechanics and Modelling of Reinforced Concrete (postgraduate)
ENEQ634 Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Elements (postgraduate)

At the National University of Malaysia (July-November 2009)
Theory of Seismic Design (postgraduate)

At the SGS Institute of Technology and Science, Indore, India (January 2007)
Nonlinear Concrete Mechanics (postgraduate)

At the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India (August 2017)
Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Existing RC Buildings (postgraduate)

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Seismic loss estimation and mitigation for light timber frame residential houses
    1 Oct 2021
    Wang, Kexin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Seismic Performance of RC Structures Considering Plastic Hinge Elongation
    1 Oct 2021
    Waezi, Zakariya
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fatigue damage assessment of reinforced concrete structures
    1 Mar 2021
    Mou, Junan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Experimental evaluation of seismic performance of cladding-glazing-partition sub-assembly
    1 Feb 2021
    Clement, Robert
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    EVALUATION OF FIRE RESISTANCE OF SEISMICALLY DAMAGED THROUGH-PENETRATION FIRESTOPPING SYSTEMS
    1 Nov 2020
    Ye, Vivian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Active Confinement of Reinforced Concrete Columns
    1 Sep 2020
    Rincon, Julian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development and verification of simple analytical equations to represent motion of precast cladding panels under lateral cyclic loading
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Riddick, Fynn
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development and verifica􀆟on of simple analy􀆟cal equa􀆟ons to represent mo􀆟on of precast cladding panels under lateral cyclic loading
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Battah, Michael
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fatigue Life Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Evans, Sam
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fatigue Life Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Peat, Matt
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identify limitations in current bracing design of NZS3604 light timber frame houses
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Weir, Tim
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identify limitations in current bracing design of NZS3604 light timber frame houses
    19 Jun 2020 - 6 Nov 2020
    Harding, Hunter
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluation of the New Zealand code requirements regarding the maximum shear stress allowed for RC structural walls
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Juan, Hebe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluation of the New Zealand code requirements regarding the maximum shear stress allowed for RC structural walls
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Necklen, Kate
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the Seismic Performance of Brick Veneer Cladding and the Development of Generic Contribution Functions
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Clement, Robert
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the Seismic Performance of Brick Veneer Cladding and the Development of Generic Contribution Functions
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Behere, Parth
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Simplified Pushover Response of Rectangular RC Walls
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Xu, Jia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Simplified Pushover Response of Rectangular RC Walls
    18 Feb 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
    Mou, Junan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development and verification of seismically resilient drift-sensitive non-structural elements in buildings
    1 Jul 2018
    Bhatta, Jitendra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Axial cyclic behaviour of reinforced concrete prisms representing wall boundary zones.
    1 Jun 2018
    Gokhale, Rohit
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effect of Ground Motion Characteristics on Collapse of Multi-Storey Buildings
    1 May 2018
    Gurung Shreshtha, Srijana
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Contribution functions for Computers and Servers for Loss Optimization Seismic Design
    19 Feb 2018 - 19 Oct 2018
    Li, Craig
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Contribution functions for Computers and Servers for Loss Optimization Seismic Design
    19 Feb 2018 - 19 Oct 2018
    Li, Yizhi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stiffness and strength of RC shear walls
    19 Feb 2018 - 19 Oct 2018
    Wang, Kewen
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stiffness and strength of RC shear walls
    19 Feb 2018 - 19 Oct 2018
    Liu, Rico