Associate Professor John Ginger

John Ginger

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

B.Sc(Eng.), M.EngSc, Ph.D., MIEAust

Office:	DD015-118
Phone:	+61 (0)7 4781 4490
Fax:	+61 (0)7 4781 6788
Email:	john.ginger@jcu.edu.au

Key Responsibilities

Member of Teaching & Learning Committee
Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Wind Loads on structures
External and internal pressure characteristics
Response of structural components to wind loads
Structural reliability and vulnerability of structures to wind loads
Windstorm damage investigations

Research affiliations

Research Director Cyclone Testing Station

Research funding – recent

ARC-LP	Failure mechanisms of roof cladding under fluctuating wind loads	$140,500
NCCARF	Climate change adaptation built env	$283,376
Geoscience Australia	Timber Connection Strength	$31,100
Geoscience Australia	Timber Connection Strength	$31,100
DEEWR	Cyclone Yasi Damage Investigation	$83,000
Qld Dept of Infrastructure & Planning	Wind Loads Applied to Solar Panels	$75,000
Qld Department of Public Works	Wind Study on Public Cyclone Shelters	$58,000

Postgraduate Research Student Supervision

Current:

Amy Lovisa (PhD student) – “ Response of roof cladding to wind loads”
Peter Kim (Masters Student) – “ Internal pressure in buildings”
Peter Osborne (Masters Student P/T) – “ Wind loads on porous buildings”

Recent:

Nandana Jayasinghe (PhD – 2012) – “The distribution of wind loads and the vulnerability of metal clad roofing structures in contemporary Australian houses”
David Henderson (PhD – 2010) – “Response of pierced fixed metal roof cladding to fluctuating wind loads”

Selected Publications – Recent

Henderson D. J. and GINGER J. D., Vulnerability model of an Australian high-set house subjected to cyclonic wind loading, Wind and Structures Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 2007, pp 269-285.

GINGER J. D., Henderson D. J., Leitch C. J. and Boughton G.N., Tropical Cyclone Larry: Estimation of wind field and assessment of building damage, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007, pp 209-224.

Henderson D. J. and GINGER J. D., Role of building codes and construction standards in windstorm disaster mitigation, The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2008, pp 40-46.

GINGER J. D., Holmes J. D. and Kopp G. A., Effect of building volume and opening size on fluctuating internal pressure, Wind and Structures Journal, Vol. 11, No. 5 2008, pp 361-376.

Henderson D. J., GINGER J. D., Morrison M. J. and G. A. Kopp, Simulated tropical cyclonic winds for low cycle fatigue loading of roofing, Wind and Structures Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4 2009, pp 383-400.

GINGER J. D., Holmes J. D. and Kim P. Y., Variation of internal pressure with varying sizes of dominant opening and volumes, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol 136, No. 10, October 2010, pp 1319-1326

Leitch C., GINGER J., Harper B., Kim P., Jayasinghe N. and Somerville L., Performance of Housing in Brisbane Following Storms on 16 November 2008, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2010, pp 45-62.

Jayasinghe N. C. and GINGER J. D., Vulnerability of roofing components to wind loads, Wind and Structures Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4 2011, pp 321-335.

Henderson D. J. and GINGER J. D., Response of pierced fixed corrugated steel roofing systems subjected to wind loads, Engineering Structures Vol 33, 2011, pp 3290-3298

Holmes J.D. and GINGER J. D., I nternal pressure –the dominant windward opening case- a review, J. Wind Eng. & Ind. Aerodyn., 100, 2012, pp70-76.

Wang Vincent Z., GINGER John D. and Narayan Krishneel, Intralaminar and interlaminar fracture characterization in glued-laminated timber members using image analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 82, 2012, pp73-84

Kim P. Y. and GINGER J. D., Internal pressures in buildings with a dominant opening and background porosity, Accepted for publication in Wind and Structures Journal

Holmes J. D. and GINGER J. D., The gust wind speed duration, accepted for publication in Australian Journal of Structural Engineering.

Miller C., Holmes J., Henderson D., GINGER J., and Morrison M., The Response of the Dines Anemometer to Gusts and Comparisons with Cup Anemometers, accepted for publication in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Full list of publications

Teaching

Date	Subject	Title	Role
1997 – present	EG4011/2	Engineering Thesis	Coordinator / Supervisor
2007 – present	CS3000	Structural Analysis	Lecturing team
2000 – present	CS3003	Design of Steel and Concrete Structures	Coordinator / Lecturer
2000 – present	CS2003	Introduction to Structural Design	Coordinator / Lecturer

Honours and awards

Professional and community engagement

committee member of Standards Australia committees BD-006 – General Design Requirements and Loading on Structures and BD-006/2 – Wind Loads
committee member on the Queensland Tropical Cyclone Consultative Committee
Chairman of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society