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Professor Kenny Kwok
BiographyBiography
Professor Kwok is a Professor of Engineering at the University of Western Sydney. From 1999-2005, he was a member of the Engineering Panel of Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, and in 2010, he serves as a member of Engineering and Environmental Sciences Research Evaluation Committee, Excellence in Research for Australia, Australian Research Council. From 1998-2008, he was a Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 1977-2002, he held positions as Professor of Wind Engineering, Associate Dean of Engineering, Director of Wind Engineering Services, and Director of Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is currently the Asia-Oceania Regional Coordinator and member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Wind Engineering.
Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
Professor Kwok's main research interests and technical expertise are wind engineering and structural dynamics, particularly wind effects on buildings and structures, wind tunnel tests, environmental fluid mechanics, vibration control and occupant comfort assessment. He has published over 350 articles in book chapters, invited and keynote papers, journal and conference papers. He has been awarded more than $5 million in research grants and undertaken wind engineering consultancy projects in Australia, Hong Kong and other countries worth over $4 million. He is the editorial board member of three international journals in wind engineering and structural engineering. He is currently Chairman, of ASCE/SEI Sucommittee on Human Perception of Motion, a member of ASCE/SEI Technical Committee on Tall Buildings, a member of BD006-02 on wind loading code AS/NZS 1170.2, a member of Technical Committee for the Code of Practice on Wind Effects in Hong Kong, and a Scientific Advisor to the Hong Kong Observatory.
Grants/Current Projects
Occupant comfort, cognitive performance and task performance in wind-excited tall buildings (Kwok, Macefield, Hitchcock, Walton), Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2010-2013, AUD605,621
Motion sickness, postural disturbance, and self-motion perception when exposed to low frequency (0.04Hz to 0.8Hz) conflicting physical and visual linear motion in the fore-and-aft axis (So, Cheung, Kwok), Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, 2009-2012, HKD632,480
Publications
Wood, G.S., Kwok, K.C.S., Motteram, N.A. and Fletcher, D.F., "Physical and Numerical Modelling of Thunderstorm Downbursts", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 89, 2001, pp.535-552.
Thepmongkorn, S. and Kwok, K.C.S., "Wind-induced Responses of Tall Buildings Experiencing Complex Motions", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 90, 2002, pp. 515-526.
Tang, U.F. and Kwok, K.C.S., "Interference excitation mechanisms on a 3-DOF Aeroelastic CAARC Building Model", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 92, 2004, pp. 1299-1314.
Campbell, S., Kwok, K.C.S. and Hitchcock, P.A., "Dynamic Characteristics And Wind-induced Response of Two High-Rise Residential Buildings During Typhoons", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 93, 2005, pp. 461-482.
Burton, M.D., Kwok, K.C.S., Hitchcock, P.A. and Denoon, R.O., "Frequency Dependence of Human Response to Wind-induced Building Motion", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 132, No. 2, 2006, pp. 296-303.
Qin, X.R., Kwok, K.C.S., Fok, C.H., Hitchcock, P.A., and Xu, Y.L., "Wind-induced Self-excited Vibrations of a Twin-deck Bridge and the Effect of Gap Width", Journal of Wind and Structures, Vol. 10, No. 5, September 2007, pp. 463-480.
Tsang, C.F., Kwok, K.C.S., Hui, D.K.K. and Hitchcock, P.A., “Large Eddy Simulation and Wind Tunnel Study of Flow over an Escarpment in a Complex Terrain”, Journal of Wind and Structures, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 219-238.
Kwok, K.C.S., Burton, M.D. and Hitchcock, P.A., “Perception of Vibration and Occupant Comfort in Wind-excited Tall Buildings’, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 97, 2009, pp. 368-380.
Tse, K.T., Kwok, K.C.S., Hitchcock, P.A., Thepmongkorn, S., and Chan, C.M., “Economic Perspectives of Aerodynamic Treatments of Square Tall Buildings”, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 97, 2009, pp. 455-467.
Liu, X.P., Niu, J.L., Kwok, K.C.S., Wang J.H. and Li, B.Z., “Investigation of Indoor Air Pollutant Dispersion and Cross-Contamination around a Typical High-Rise Residential Building in Hong Kong: Wind Tunnel Tests”, Building and Environment, Vol. 45, Issue 8, August 2010, pp. 1769-1778.
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