Dr Katherine Cashell

Katherine is a structural engineer specialising in structural design and analysis, fire engineering and also experimental and numerical analysis.

Brief biography

Katherine gained a PhD from Imperial College London in 2009 in Advanced Structural Engineering. The topic of her thesis was “Ultimate behaviour of floor slabs under extreme loading conditions”. She was awarded an MEngSc (Research) in Civil Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland (2006) with a thesis entitled “The use of axle acceleration measurements in a vehicle fleet to estimate road roughness”. She gained a first class honours BEng degree from University College Cork, Ireland, in 2004.

Academic/Professional Career

• Senior structural engineer at the Steel Construction Institute (SCI), Ascot, UK. August 2010 – August 2012.
• Structural engineer at High Point Rendel (HPR), London, UK. October 2009-August 2010.
• Research Assistant at Imperial College London, UK. January 2006-January 2009.

Education

• PhD in Advanced Structural Engineering, Imperial College London, Universtiy of London, 2009
• Diploma of Imperial College (DIC), 2009
• MEngSc (Research) in Civil Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, 2006
• BEng (Hons) in Civil and Environmental Engineering, First Class, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, 2004

Research Interests

• Structural testing
• Numerical modelling
• Analytical methods
• Structural fire engineering
• Efficient methods of design
• Building response subject to extreme loading such as fire, impact and earthquake
• Structural use of stainless steel

Teaching

Module teaching contributor CE1601 Fundamentals of Structures, CE3001 Structural Analysis 

Supervision: 3rd Year Dissertations

Katherine is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a member of both the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE) and Engineers Ireland (MIEI). She is the current chairperson of the Great Britain region of Engineers Ireland.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Cashell, K., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Ductility of Composite Floor Slabs under Idealised Fire Conditions, Proceedings of the ICE - Structures and Buildings 165 399- 409

(2011) Cashell, KA., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Failure assessment of lightly reinforced floor slabs. I: Experimental investigation, Journal of Structural Engineering 137 (9) : 977- 988

(2011) Cashell, KA., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Failure assessment of lightly reinforced floor slabs. II: Analytical studies, Journal of Structural Engineering 137 (9) : 989- 1001

(2010) Cashell, KA., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Experimental and analytical assessment of ductility in lightly reinforced concrete members, Engineering Structures 32 (9) : 2729- 2743

(2010) Cashell, KA., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Ultimate behavior of idealized composite floor elements at ambient and elevated temperature, Fire Technology 46 (1) : 67- 89

(2009) Elghazouli, AY., Cashell, KA. and Izzuddin, BA., Experimental Evaluation of the Mechanical Properties of Steel Reinforcement at Elevated Temperature, Fire Safety Journal 44 (6) : 909- 919

Conference Papers

(2011) Rossi, B. and Cashell, K., Recent Research into Thin-walled Ferritic Stainless Steel Profiles, 6th International Symposium on Steel Structures

(2010) Cashell, K., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Ultimate behaviour of composite floor slabs at ambient and elevated temperature, 5th International Structures in Fire conference

(2010) Cashell, K., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Influence of reinforcement properties on the failure of composite slabs in fire, 6th International Structures in Fire conference

(2009) Cashell, K., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Failure criteria for composite slabs subject to extreme loading conditions, ICASS-2009, 6th International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures

(2008) Cashell, K., Elghazouli, AY. and Izzuddin, BA., Failure assessment of composite slabs under fire conditions, Eurosteel 2008