Assoc Professor Hassan Karampour's Expertise
With over 20 years of experience, Assoc Professor Hassan Karampour has been actively involved in the design and construction of residential and industrial mid-rise and high-rise buildings, portal frames, storage racks, and concrete reservoirs in Australia and overseas. His expertise extends to designing structures to withstand wind and earthquake actions. Dr. Karampour's extensive knowledge and skills enable him to provide expert services to the industry, including modelling, analysis, and certification of designs. Additionally, he contributes to the development of new products in the field of structural engineering. Within the broad field of structural engineering, his expertise are: finite element analyses, structural stability, steel structures, pipeline integrity, fluid-structure interaction and timber composites.
Long-span Timber and Wood-based Hybrid Floors
To reduce carbon emissions from the building construction industry this project aims to develop solutions to address vibration performance of long-span timber floors by characterising dynamic properties and vibration response of floor slabs. New knowledge is expected to be generated on the dynamic properties and manufacturing procedures of lightweight timber, mass timber, and hybrid floors. Expected outcomes are innovative floors that smartly combine carbon-negative wood with traditional steel and concrete materials. This will lead to significant benefits to consumers and the environment and will enable design and construction of green infrastructure buildings with many purposes with benefits across Australia and globally.
Reinforced Thermoplastic Pipelines for transport of Hydrogen
Hydrogen is becoming popular as a sustainable source of energy globally. The Australian government is currently funding millions of dollars in multiple projects to promote usage of Hydrogen. According to the Low Emissions Technology Statement of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Australia aims to reduce costs and develop innovative technologies to meet the government’s goal of hydrogen production under $2/kg. Current pipeline infrastructure, which is mainly designed for transporting natural gas, has several limitations for hydrogen transport, such as: embrittlement and cracking of steel pipelines, performance evaluation and performance testing. Reinforced thermoplastic pipe can be a solution due to its high chemical resistance, durability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Lightweight Multipurpose Floating Offshore Platforms
Sustainable use of the ocean for food and energy production is an emerging area of research in different countries around the world. This goal is pursued by the Australian aquaculture, offshore engineering andrenewable energy industries, research organisations and the government through the “Blue EconomyCooperative Research Centre”. To address the challenges of offshore food and energy production, lever-aging the benefits of co-location, vertical integration, infrastructure and shared services, will be enabledthrough the development of novel Multi-Purpose Offshore-Platforms (MPOP). The structural integrityof the designed systems when being deployed in the harsh offshore environment is one of the mainchallenges in developing the MPOPs. The project aims to develop lightweight construction solutions to reduce carbon footprint as well installation, constructiona nd operational costs of such MPOPs.
Pipe-in-pipe systems and composite petroleum pipelines and risers
This project aims to explore the structural and vortex-induced-vibration performances of novel deep subsea pipe-in-pipe designs, using a textured outer pipe. Deep-water pipelines and risers are vulnerable to structural damages due to high hydrostatic pressures, large thermal loads from the internal hydrocarbons, and adverse vibrations in the currents. The expected outcome of this project is an experimentally validated pipe-in-pipe system that can resist higher pressures, is less sensitive to dents or imperfections, and has suppressed vibrations. The research results will find direct applications in the designing of pipelines, and will provide significant benefits in terms of increased reliability and safety for the oil and gas industry.