ProfessorRobert Vollum
Professor of Structural Concrete
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0003-1075-2014 (opens in a new tab)
- Professor of Structural ConcreteDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 5992 (Work)
- 440, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
Professor Vollum's research interests are wide, encompassing the following topics: long-term deflections of reinforced concrete slabs, beam-column joints, shear in beams, punching shear, strut and tie modelling, non-linear finite element analysis, the design of reinforced concrete slabs, control of cracking induced by early age thermal contraction and subsequent shrinkage, structural design. He has developed a method for predicting the deflection of slabs that takes construction loading into account. The numerical work was calibrated with data from the in-situ concrete building at BRE Cardington with which he was closely involved. He has led led several EPSRC projects including EP/D505488/1 which developed a design method for using concrete blinding as struts in cut and cover excavations and EP/T004142/1 into the cracking behaviour of reinforced concrete elements subjected to the restraint of imposed strains. This was a joint project with the University of Leeds (EP/T004185/1). Recent work has focused on punching shear in flat slabs, including transfer slabs, as well as shear enhancement near supports of beams.
Professor Vollum's research interests are wide, encompassing the following topics: long-term deflections of reinforced concrete slabs, beam-column joints, shear in beams, punching shear, strut and tie modelling, non-linear finite element analysis, the design of reinforced concrete slabs, control of cracking induced by early age thermal contraction and subsequent shrinkage, structural design. He has developed a method for predicting the deflection of slabs that takes construction loading into account. The numerical work was calibrated with data from the in-situ concrete building at BRE Cardington with which he was closely involved. He has led led several EPSRC projects including EP/D505488/1 which developed a design method for using concrete blinding as struts in cut and cover excavations and EP/T004142/1 into the cracking behaviour of reinforced concrete elements subjected to the restraint of imposed strains. This was a joint project with the University of Leeds (EP/T004185/1). Recent work has focused on punching shear in flat slabs, including transfer slabs, as well as shear enhancement near supports of beams.