Nicholas Trahair

BSc BE MEngSc PhD DEng
Emeritus Professor
Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering



School of Civil Engineering, Room 442
Phone: +61 2 9451 4874
Fax: +61 2 9351 3343
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Research interests & current/recent research projects

Behaviour and design of steel structures, structural stability, flexural-torsional buckling, finite element analysis

• Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures
• On the Design of Damaged Steel Columns
• Bending of Steel Angle Section Beams
• Buckling of Columns with Oblique End Restraints
• Torsion of steel beams
• Flexural Torsional Buckling
• Monorail Beams

Selected publications

• Trahair, NS, Flexural-Torsional Buckling of Structures, E & FN Spon, London, 1993.
• Bradford, MA, Bridge, RQ, and Trahair, NS, Worked Examples for Steel Structures, 3rd ed., Australian Institute of Steel Construction, Sydney, 1997.
• Trahair, NS, and Papangelis, JP, LIMSTEEL 2.2 User’s Manual for the Limit States Design of Steel Structures According to AS4100-1998, Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering, University of Sydney, 1997.
• Trahair, N.S. and Bradford, MA, The Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures to AS4100, 3rd Australian edition, E & FN Spon , London, 1998.
• Trahair, NS, Bradford, MA, and Nethercot, DA, The Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures to BS 5950, Spon Press, London, 2001.
• Trahair, NS, Bradford, MA, Nethercot, DA, and Gardner, L, The Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures to EC3, 4th edition, E & FN Spon , London, 2008.

Professional Service and Memberships

• Member and Co-Chairman (1964-98), Committee BD1 of Standards Australia responsible for AS1250-1968 and AS4100-1990, 1998 codes for the design of steel structures.
• Corresponding Member, Structural Stability Research Council.
• Member of editorial boards for Engineering Structures, Advances in Structural Engineering, and The Structural Engineer.