Biography

Professor N E Shanmugam is currently with the Department of Civil Engineering, The national University of Singapore as Professor in Civil Engineering. He received his BE Degree in Civil Engineering in 1965 and MSc(Eng) in Structural Engineering in 1968 from the then College of Engineering, Guindy (University of Madras). After 10 years of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in College of Engineering, Guindy and then in Delhi University he went to the University College, Cardiff (UK) where he worked on Design of Multi-cell Structures with special reference to ship double bottoms and obtained PhD degree in 1978 from the University of Wales. He taught in University of Wales and Polytechnic of Wales for three years before joining the National University of Singapore in December 1981.

Professor Shanmugam's research interest includes steel plated structures such as plate and box girders, ship double bottom structures, steel-concrete composite construction - long-span structures and connections, cold-formed steel structures, web openings in beams, elastic and ultimate load behaviour of steel structures etc. He is a co-recipient of George Stephenson Medal given by the institution of Civil Engineers, London for one of his papers published in their proceedings. He has published close to150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, edited three conference proceedings and contributed two chapters for the Civil Engineering Handbook (CRC Press) and one chapter for Handbook of Structural Engineering (CRC Press). He is the Editor of the South and South East Asia Regional Issue of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research, and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures and Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. He has organised in Singapore three International Conferences and sat as a member of the organising committee for a number international conferences and as International Advisory/Scientific Committee member of international conferences on steel structures.

Professor Shanmugam is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, London, (FIStructE), Royal Institution of Naval Architects (FRINA), American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (FIES) and The Institution of Engineers, India (FIEI). He is a Member-at-Large of the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC), USA. He is active professionally by providing advisory services and organising courses at basic and advanced levels on steel structures to practising engineers. He has been closely associated with the Singapore Structural Steel Society since its inception and served for several years in the Council as the First Vice-President, President and Immediate Past president. Professor Shanmugam is a Council Member of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore and is the Chairman of the IES/IStructE Joint Committee. He is serving in three Technical Committees as Chairman and Deputy Chairman in the Productivity Standards Board, Singapore and as a member of the Committee on Cold-Formed Steel Members, Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Qualifications

• PhD (1978), University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
• MSc(Eng) (1968), BE (1965), College of Engineering, Guindy (currently known as Anna University), University of Madras.

Honours & Awards

• Second Rank in the BE Examinations, 1965 batch of the University of Madras.
• Technical Teacher Training Award, Ministry of Education, Government of India, 1966-1969.
• Fellowship, University College, Cardiff, UK, 1976 – 1978.
• George Stephenson Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1980.
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics.
• Member, Editorial Board, Thin-Walled Structures.
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Constructional Steel Research
• Editor, South and South East Asian Regional Issue of Journal of Constructional Steel Research.
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Steel Structures
• Chairman, International Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference on Thin-Walled Structure, Jracow, Poland June 2001.

Professional Activities

• President, Singapore Structural Steel Society (1994 – 1997)
• First Vice-President, Singapore Structural Steel Society (1988 – 1994)
• Second Vice-Chairman of the IES/IStructe Joint Branch (1996-2000)
• Chairman, IES/Struct E Joint Branch ( 2000 - )
• Organised the Second International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures (ICSAS’91), Fourth Pacific Structural Steel Conference (PSSC’95) and Second International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures (ICTWS’98).
• Member, Council of the Institute of Engineers, Singapore ( 1999- )

Teaching Areas

  Undergraduate level:

• Strength of materials and Applied Mechanics
• Theory of Structures
• Experimental Stress Analysis
• Structural Steel Design
• Reinforced Concrete Design
• Theory of Elasticity
• Structural Stability
• Engineering Mechanics

  Graduate level:

• Theory of Structural Stability
• Plate Structures
• Theory of Elasticity
• Experimental Stress Analysis
• Advanced Structural Steel Design

Research Interests

• Thin-walled cellular structures - finite element and grillage methods of analysis; effects of web openings.
• Thin-walled steel box columns
• Lateral buckling of thin-walled beams.
• Frames with semi-rigid joints - buckling load and ultimate load analysis.
• Long-Span Composite Structures; Composite Frames; Composite Connections.
• Fibre reinforced concrete deep beams.
• Plate girders curved in plan, tapered plate girders and composite plate girders.
• Openings in Thin-walled Structures.

Selected Publications

1. Evans, H.R., Shanmugam, N.E., "The elastic analysis of cellular structures containing web openings", Proceedings, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, U.K., Part 2, 1979, 67, December, 1035-1063., (This paper was awarded George Stephenson Medal of the Institution Civil Engineers, London)
2. Shanmugam, N.E., Narayanan, R., "Elastic buckling of perforated square plates for various loading and edge conditions:, Proceedings, International Conference on Finite Element Methods, August, 1982, Shanghai, China.
3. Shanmugam, N.E., "Strength of Axially Loaded Orthotropic Plates", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, USA, Vol. 113, No. 2, Feb. 1987, 322-333.
4. Shanmugam, N,E., Chiew, S.P. and Lee, S.L., "A Design Formula for Thin-walled Steel Box Columns", Memoires of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering, Switzerland, Zurich, IABSE Proceedings, P-130/88, November 1988, 105-116.
5. Shanmugam, N.E., Richard Liew, J.Y. and Lee, S.L., "Thin-Walled Steel Box Columns Under Biaxial Loading", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S.A., Vol. 115, No. 11, Nov. 1989, 2706-2726.
6. Thevendran, V. and Shanmugam, N.E., " Lateral Buckling of Doubly Symmetric Beams Containing Openings", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, USA, Vol. 117, No. 7, Jul. 1991, 1427-1441.
7. Shanmugam, N.E., Ting, L.C. and Lee, S.L. "Behaviour of I-Beam to Box-Column Connections Stiffened Externally and Subjected to Fluctuating Loads", Journal of Constructional Steel Research, UK, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1992), 129-148
8. Shanmugam, N.E., Chen, W.F., "An Assessment of K factor Formulas", Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction, 1st Quarter 1995 / Volume 32, No.1, 3-11.
9. Shanmugam, N.E. and Arockiasamy, M., "Local Buckling of Stiffened Plates in Offshore Structures", Journal of Constructional Steel Research, UK, Vol 38, No. 1, May 1996, 41-59.
10. Shanmugam, N.E., "Openings in Thin-Walled Steel Structures", International Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, UK, Vol. 28, No.3/4 (1997), 355-372.

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