Journal of Civil Engineering Research

Journal of Civil Engineering Research is an open access scientific journal intended to bring together the information in different areas of civil engineering around the world. The aim of this journal is to combine theory and practice in civil engineering and thus advancement of civil engineering sciences. It will provide a platform for academicians, researchers and engineers to share their experience and solution to problems in different areas of civil engineering.

Kong Fah Tee

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Civil Engineering Research

Lecturer, University of Greenwich, UK

Research Areas

Structural System Identification and Life Prediction, Structural Health Monitoring and Management, Forensic Engineering, Structural Reliability, Optimization, Structural Behaviour and Design Under Extreme Loading, Wave Propagation and Signal Processing, E

Education

2011PGCerUniversity of Greenwich, UK
2004Ph.DNational University of Singapore
2000BEngUniversity Putra Malaysia

Experience

2009-presentSenior Lecturer in Infrastructure Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Greenwich, UK
2008-2009Researcher, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, UK
2007-2008Researcher, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
2006-2007Lecturer (part-time), School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK
2005-2007Demonstrator, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK
2004-2007Researcher, (1) School of Mathematics & Statistics, (2) School of Engineering, University of Plymouth, UK
2004Research Engineer, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
2001-2003Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
2000-2004Research Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore

Academic Achievement

Invited Foreign Expert, by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011
Early Career Researcher Conference Award, by University of Greenwich, 2011
Dictionary of International Biography (36th Edition), 2011
Marquis Who's Who in the World (28th Edition), 2011
Wirasurf Technologies Prize, Top Student Award for Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), 2000
Golden Key International Honour Society, inducted in 1998
Potential Student Award, 1995

Membership

Member, Environmental Technologies Group, London Technology Network (LTN), 2010-present
Member, The British Society for Strain Measurement, 2010
Individual Member, The Pipeline Industries Guild, 2010
Core Member, CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association), 2009-present
Member (MIDiagE), Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, 2008-present
Member, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), 2007-present
Member (MSHMII), International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2005-present
Associate Member (AMIoN), Institute of Nanotechnology, 2007-present
Graduate Member, Institution of Structural Engineers, 2005-present
Member (MIES), Institution of Engineers Singapore, 2006-2010
Student Member, Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), 2002-2004
Student Member, Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), 1998-2004

Publications: Journals

[1]  T.Wang, L.Zhang and K.F.Tee, "Extraction of Real Modes and Physical Matrices from Modal Testing", Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol.10, No.2, 2011, pp.219-227.
[2]  M.N.James, C.J.Christopher, Y.Lu, K.F.Tee and E.A.Patterson, "Crack Tip Shielding from a Plastic 'Inclusion' ", Key Engineering Materials, Vol.465, 2011, pp.1-8. (Selected Paper from MSMF-6)
[3]  A.Nadjai, N.Goodfellow, K.F.Tee, F.Ali and S.K.Choi, "Analysis of Composite Floor Cellular Steel Beams in Fire", Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Vol.1, No.3, 2010, pp.161-175.
[4]  H.Abramovich, M.Burgard, L.Edery-Azulay, K.E.Evans, M.Hoffmeister, W.Miller, F.Scarpa, C.W.Smith and K.F.Tee, "Smart Tetrachiral and Hexachiral Honeycomb: Sensing and Impact Detection", Composites Science and Technology, Special Issue on Chiral Smart Honeycombs, Vol.70, No.7, 2010, pp.1072-1079.
[5]  K.F.Tee, A.Spadoni, F.Scarpa and M.Ruzzene, "Wave Propagation in Auxetic Tetrachiral Honeycombs", Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME, Vol.132, No.3, 2010, 031007.
[6]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "Numerical and Experimental Studies of a Substructural Identification Strategy", Structural Health Monitoring, An International Journal, Vol.8, No.5, 2009, pp.397-410.
[7]  C.J.Christopher, M.N.James, E.A.Patterson and K.F.Tee, "A Quantitative Evaluation of Fatigue Crack Shielding Forces Using Photoelasticity", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.75, No.14, 2008, pp.4190-4199.
[8]  C.J.Christopher, M.N.James, E.A.Patterson and K.F.Tee, "Towards a New Model of Crack Tip Stress Fields", International Journal of Fracture, Vol.148, No.4, 2007, pp.361-371.
[9]  K.F.Tee, C.J.Christopher, M.N.James and E.A.Patterson, "New Insights into Plasticity-Induced Crack Tip Shielding via Mathematical Modelling and Full Field Photoelasticity", Key Engineering Materials, Vols. 345-346, 2007, pp.199-204. (Keynote Paper in ICM-10)
[10]  C.G.Koh, K.F.Tee and S.T.Quek, "Condensed Model Identification and Recovery for Structural Damage Assessment", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.132, No.12, 2006, pp.2018-2026.
[11]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "Substructural First-and Second-Order Model Identification for Structural Damage Assessment", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol.34, No.15, 2005, pp.1755-1775.
[12]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "System Identification and Damage Estimation via Substructural Approach", Computational Structural Engineering, An International Journal, Vol.3, No.1, 2003, pp.1-7. (Selected paper from APSSRA-3)

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  K.F.Tee and C.Q.Li, "A Numerical Study of Maintenance Strategy for Concrete Structures in Marine Environment", Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP), Zurich, Switzerland, August 1-4, 2011.
[2]  T.Wang, L.Zhang and K.F.Tee, "Extraction of Real Modes and Physical Matrices from Modal Testing", Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Leuven, Belgium, July 4-6, 2011, pp 2523-2529. (CD-ROM)
[3]  K.F.Tee, C.Q.Li and M.Mahmoodian, "Prediction of Time-variant Probability of Failure for Concrete Sewer Pipes", Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components (DBMC), Porto, Portugal, April 12-15, 2011, Paper 2.9-T21. (CD-ROM)
[4]  M.T.Soe, H.P.Chen, K.F.Tee and A.M.Alani, "Updating Finite Element Model from Vibration Measurements", Proc. of the 19th UK Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), Edinburgh, UK, April 5-6, 2011, pp. 153-156.
[5]  K.F.Tee and H.P.Chen, "Retrieving Full Stiffness Matrix from Experimental Condensed Models", Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics (RASD), Southampton, UK, July 12-14, 2010, paper 179. (Pen Drive)
[6]  H.P.Chen, K.L.Wang and K.F.Tee, "Structural Health Monitoring Utilizing Dynamic Perturbation Method", Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and Control (ICDVC), Hangzhou, China, May 12-14, 2010, paper 550. (CD-ROM)
[7]  R.B.Jenal, W.J.Staszewski, F.Scarpa and K.F.Tee, "Damage Detection in Smart Chiral Sandwich Structures Using Nonlinear Acoustics", Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST), Hong Kong, China, October 20-22, 2009.
[8]  N.Goodfellow, A.Nadjai, K.F.Tee, F.Ali and S.K.Choi, "Fire Composite Floor Cellular Steel Beams for Buildings", Proc. of the International Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-20, 2009, pp. 496-501.
[9]  C.J.Christopher, M.N.James, K.F.Tee and E.A.Patterson, "Evaluation of Crack Tip Shielding Using a Photoelastic Model", Proc. of the SEM XI International Congress on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Orlando, FL, USA, June 2-5, 2008, paper 6. (CD-ROM)
[10]  K.F.Tee, A.Spadoni, F.Scarpa and M.Ruzzene, "Vibroacoustics and Wave Propagation of Novel Chiral Honeycombs", Proc. of the SPIE 15th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, March 9-13, 2008, Vol.6928, 69280J. (CD-ROM)
[11]  H.Abramovich, M.Burgard, L.Edery-Azulay, K.E.Evans, M.Hoffmeister, W.Miller, F.Scarpa, C.W.Smith, K.F.Tee, A.Schonecker and L. Seffner, "Sensing and Actuation of Smart Chiral Honeycombs", Proc. of the SPIE 15th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, March 9-13, 2008, Vol.6935, 693506. (CD-ROM)
[12]  K.F.Tee, C.J.Christopher, M.N.James and E.A.Patterson, "Mathematical Study of the Effects of Applied Stress, T-stress and Back Stress in Photoelastic Fringe Patterns", Proc. of the XIII International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM), Ternopil, Ukraine, September 25-28, 2006, pp. 36-41. (Plenary Paper) (CD-ROM)
[13]  K.F.Tee, C.J.Christopher, E.A.Patterson and M.N.James, "Application of Photoelasticity in Mathematical Modelling of Crack Tip Stress Fields", International Conference on Photomechanics, Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 10-12, 2006. (CD-ROM)
[14]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "Damage Assessment by Condensed Model Identification and Recovery with Substructural Approach", Proc. of the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES), Bordeaux, France, October 26-28, 2005, pp. 415-422.
[15]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "Substructural System Identification and Damage Estimation by OKID/ERA", Proc. of the 3rd Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and Its Applications (APSSRA), Seoul, Korea, August 19-21, 2004, pp. 637-647. (rescheduled-initially scheduled for Oct 12-14, 2003)
[16]  K.F.Tee, C.G.Koh and S.T.Quek, "Substructural Identification with Incomplete Measurement for Damage Assessment", Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII), Tokyo, Japan, November 13-15, 2003, Vol.1, pp. 379-386.
[17]  C.G.Koh, K.F.Tee and S.T.Quek, "Stiffness and Damage Identification with Model Reduction Technique", Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford, CA, USA, September 15-17, 2003, pp. 525-532.
[18]  C.G.Koh, S.T.Quek and K.F.Tee, "Damage Identification of Structural Dynamic System", Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics (ICSSD), Singapore, December 16-18, 2002, pp. 780-785. (CD-ROM)