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ProfessorMahmud Ashraf

(He/ Him)

Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
  • +61 3 522 78450 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Stability and design of timber, mass timber and other types of engineered timber and bamboo products for structural applications
Behaviour and design of thin-walled metallic structures including stainless steel, high strength steel, aluminium and other high strength alloys Numerical analysis of complex structural problems
Innovative use of addtive manufacturing (3D/4D printing) in structural engineering

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Advanced manufacturing innovation strategy and feasibility to catalyse large-scale prefabricated dwelling adoption
    8 Dec 2025 - 15 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    AFWI - Australian Forest and Wood Innovations - EOINOCRD20098
  • PRIZE / AWARD
    Best Submission by a New Road Safety Researcher
    Australasian Road Safety Conference23 Oct 2025
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Future Lightweight Timber Framing: Productivity Subproject 9 on stud distortion
    8 Apr 2025 - 12 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    UniTas Grant - Research and Development - University of Tasmania - $60,840.00
  • GRANT
    REACH, House of Bamboo - Trailblazer Scholarship - Timber-bamboo composite structural elements for sustainable construction
    26 Feb 2025 - 26 Aug 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    House of Bamboo - $30,000.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Organic waste derived 3D printed biodegradable structures for wetland restoration
    Deakin University1 May 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    LES Multidisciplinary Funding Scheme - $30,000.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Mini ARC Analog Programme (MAAP) Developing a strategic roadmap for the Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Management process
    Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment12 Feb 2023 - 26 Nov 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    $18, 913
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Working Near Traffic - Work Zone End of Queue Study.
    5 Aug 2022 - 20 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    iMove Australia Limited - 1-064 - $378,050.00
  • GRANT
    Failure analysis of cross laminated timber under out of-plane loading.
    11 Apr 2022 - 26 Aug 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashraf M,
    • Rahman S
    International Education Resilience Fund - $15,000.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Developing Quality Assurance Framework for Medium to Large-sized Domestic Volume Builders in Australia
    Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University2 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Communities above our Cities: Using Mass Timber Construction to reimagine our global cities creating socially sustainable communities at heights.
    16 Nov 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ashraf M,
    • Kremer P,
    • Doerfler J
    Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - $20,738.92
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Research Study: Product Fraud Impacts on Australian Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Industries.
    21 May 2020 - 9 Oct 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    AgriFutures Australia - CONTR2020/00868 - $66,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Experimental analysis of FormFlow's new structural panel.
    18 Dec 2019 - 31 Mar 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    Formflow Pty Ltd - CONTR2020/00336 - $5,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Prefabricated composite panels, beams and footing systems for housing construction.
    9 May 2019 - 8 Nov 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    United Construction and Investment Pty Ltd t/as Atomic 6 (Vic) - CONTR2019/00694 - $80,911.00