Associate Professor David Lange

Assoc. Professor - Structural Eng

School of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
d.lange@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56646

Overview

David Lange joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in early 2018 as a lecturer in Structural Fire Engineering. His background is in Structural Fire Safety Engineering, including risk and performance based design methodoloiges and structural mechanics under high temperature. He has several years of experience working in the research and education sector in Europe, where he has participated in a wide range of projects including coordination of a Horizon 2020 research and innovation action and as principal or co-investigator in a variety of nationally and internationally funded projects in the field of fire safety engineering.

His research interests follow two main tracks: structural fire engineering and infrastructure resilience. In the field of fire safety, his work includes: the study of steel, concrete and composite structures exposed to fire; the response of modern engineeried timber structures to fire; studies of the fire performance of novel materials including load bearing glass and composite structures; travelling fires; uncertainty quantification and probabilsitic design. In the field of critical infrastructure resileince, he has studied the enrichment of risk management methodologies with the resiults of resilience assessment studies and the operationalisation of resilience to various infrastructure sectors and communities which may be exposed to natural disasters.

Research Interests

  • Structural Fire Engineering
    The behavior and performance of traditional and novel construction materials, structures, elements and systems exposed to high temperature as a result of fires in buildings.
  • Probabilistic, risk and performance based design
    This includes both the development and application of probabilistic methods and performance based design methodologies to the design of structures for fire; as well as the definition of performance goals for these methodologies.
  • Infrastructure resilience
    The application of resilience concepts to modern infrastructure and the communities which infrastructure assets and systems support

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
  • Masters (Coursework), University of Edinburgh

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book Chapter

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Edited Outputs

  • David Lange, Cristian Maluk, Kang Hai Tan, Dong Zhang, Yao Zhang, Julian Mendez Alvarez, Juan Hidalgo, Felix Wiesner, Martyn Mclaggan, Abdulrahman Zaben, Wenxuan Wu and Hangyu Xu eds. (2020). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF2020). 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF2020), Online, 30 November - 2 December 2020. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.

Other Outputs

  • McLaggan, Martyn S., Hidalgo, Juan P., Osorio, Andres F., Heitzmann, Michael, Carrascal, Jeronimo, Lange, David, Maluk, Cristian and Torero, Jose L. (2019). The Material Library of Cladding Materials. UQ eSpace. (Collection) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.441

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

Completed Supervision