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SPECIALISATIONS:
* Design of Steel Structures
* Conceptual Design
* Information Modelling
* Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design
* Integrated Design Systems
* Information and knowledge management in Construction
* Computer Aided Design
* Performance based multi-criterion optimization
Links:
Brief
Curriculum Vitae
Tim McCarthy joined the School of Civil
Mining and Environmental Engineering in December 2004
having spent nearly 20 years as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST
which merged to form the University
of Manchester in
2004). He has worked on the design of offshore and onshore steel
structures and has written a best selling text book, "AutoCAD
Express" on the popular CAD program, AutoCAD.
Teaching
Development
Educating engineers is a challenging
task. The complexity and cost of modern construction projects
mean that today's structural engineers must be much more than
analysts. They must have an holistic approach to problem solving
coupled with a superb technical understanding. In the university
education of engineers, we constantly strive to understand the minute
details while simultaneously grasping the big picture. Through a
range of teaching methods and on-line resources, we in the Faculty of
Engineering at Wollongong
are at the forefront in Engineering Education.
Shear.exe is a Computer Based Training
module that I developed with students in Manchester. It covers a description of shear
stresses in structures, shear flow and shear centre. You can download a personal copy by clicking this
link. It is 1.8Mb in size and runs on most Windows based PCs. This copy is for personal use and
should not be distributed without permission.
Funding
Professor McCarthy's research prior to
joining the University of Wollongong was mainly through EPSRC (the UK
equivalent of ARC). He works closely with industry and is
affiliated to the Bluescope Steel Institute. Click the link
above for details of recent projects in Australia
and UK.
These range from Structural Steel Design to Commissioning and
Qualification of Pharmaceutical Facilities.
Thesis
Supervision
In the past Professor McCarthy has
supervised and co-supervised 40 PhD's, MPhil and MSc theses.
Click the link for a full list of titles. The main theme of this
body of work is the application of advanced information technology to
the solution of engineering problems.
Publications
Click the link above for a full
list. Some recent publications are:
N Cunliffe, TJ McCarthy, A Trim and C Baxter (2004) Evolutionary Design of Marine Riser
Systems, 23rd International Conference on Offshore
Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Paper OMAE2004-51415, June 20-25
2004, Vancouver, Canada
N Cunliffe, TJ McCarthy and AD Trim 2003 Optimisation of tapered
stress joints for offshore catenary risers’ (The Structural Engineer, Vol 81, No 20,
pp 35-40
McCarthy, TJ (2002) 'Knowledge based systems in structural steelwork
design - A review' in Engineering Computational Technology Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and
Z. Bittnar Saxe-Coburg Publications:
pp 53-74, 2002: ISBN
1-874672-17-2
T J McCarthy, R Schneider, N Cunliffe and C Barnshaw (2004)‘Excel spreadsheets for design of steel beams with
multiple web openings’ () Paper 158 Computational Structures
Technology Conference, Lisbon, 7-9 Sept 2004, B. H. V. Topping and C.
A. Mota Soares Eds, Publ Civil Comp Press, Stirling, 2004
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Cunliffe and T J McCarthy (2003)
‘Application of Genetic
Algorithms for the Automated Design of Offshore Riser Systems’Proc
7th Int.
Conf. on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and
Structural Engineering,
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands 2-4 September 2003 (BHV Topping Ed) Paper
35, Civil Comp Press, 11 pages
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BE, MSc,
PhD, MIEI
Professor
of Structural Steel and Design (Structural
Engineering Division)
Contact:
Phone: +61-2-4221-4591
Fax: + 61-2-4221-3238
e-mail: tim_mccarthy
@uow.edu.au
ADDRESS:
Faculty of Engineering
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
2522
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