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Dr Benoit Gilbert

Principal Scientist at the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Salisbury Research Centre); Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at Griffith University
Dr Benoit Gilbert holds a PhD on cold-formed steel structures from the University of Sydney. Before completing his PhD in 2010, he worked more than 3 years in the industry, in Paris, designing offshore platforms. Dr Gilbert joined Griffith University in 2010 and teaches Structural engineering. His research interests lie in cold-formed steel structures, timber structures and progressive collapse. He is an Australian Standard committee member for TM-010 “Timber structures and framing” and BD-062 “Steel storage racking”. Dr Gilbert is experienced in testing a large range of structures from single members to complete systems.
Up to 3 students.
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Will depend on projects but will be related to timber structures
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