Boksun Kim

Dr Boksun Kim

Job title: Lecturer in Civil Engineering, School of Marine Science and Engineering (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Address: Room 114, Reynolds, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752586135
Email: boksun.kim@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
BSc Civil Engineering Programme Manager
Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Qualifications & background
2005: PGC in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Univeristy of Portsmouth, UK.
2000: Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
1995: MSc in Structural Engineering, Myong Ji Univeristy, Seoul, South Korea.
1993: BSc in Architectural Engineering, Myong Ji University, Seoul, South Korea.

Professional membership
2001-              Graduate Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers, London.
2001-2004:      Graduate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.
2004-              Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK.

Teaching interests

STAD108. Structural analysis and design 1.

STAD210. Structural analysis and design 2.

STAD213. Structural analysis and design II.

STAD114. Structural design.

Research interests

Tapered tee beams, finite element analysis, buckling analysis.

UoP Research group membership

Structures/Conceptual Modelling

Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Ph.D thesis that examined:

2004: Eng Han TEE, Geometric optimisation of yeild line patterens using generic algorithms, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univeristy of Portsmouth.

Publications

Kim, B. and Oliver, A. (2011), A study of web tapered tee section cantilevers. IABSE-IASS Symposium, London September 20-23, 2011.

B. Kim, H. Wright and R. Cairns (2002), The Stem Girder System: Numerical Analysis, Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete IV, ASCE, pp178-188.

B. Kim, H. Wright and R. Cairns (2001), A Study of Continuous Stem Girder Systems, Structural Engineering and Mechanics: An International Journal, Volume 11, No. 5, pp. 496-484.

B. Kim, H. Wright and R. Cairns (2001), The Behaviour of Through-deck Welded Shear Connectors: A Numerical Study, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, Busan, South Korea, pp. 1327-1334.

B. Kim H. Wright and R. Cairns (2001), The Behaviour of Through Deck Welded Shear Connectors: an Experimental and Numerical Study, Journal of Constructional Steel Research: An International Journal, Vol. 57, No. 12, pp. 1359-1380.

B. Kim, H. Wright and R. Cairns (2000), The stem girder system: numerical analysis, Engineering Foundation Conference, Banff, May 2000, pp. 1-11.

H. Wright, B. Kim and R. Cairns (2000), The development of a stem girder system, The 6^th International Conference by Association for International Cooperation and Research in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (ASCCS), Los Angeles, March 2000, pp.615-622.

B. Kim, H. D. Wright, R. Cairns and M. A. Bradford (1999), The numerical simulation of shear connection, Proceedings of the 16^th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Sydney, Australia, December 1999, pp. 341-346.

B. Kim, H. D. Wright and R. Cairns (1999), A study of a New Continuous Stem Girder System, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Seoul, South Korea, August 1999, pp. 537-542.

Reports & invited lectures
Contributed to P376 Steel building design: Worked examples for students in accordance with Eurocodes, published by the SCI in 2007.