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Professor Graham Baker

Name :	Professor Graham Baker
Position :	Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Scholarship)
Section :	Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Office (Scholarship)
Office :	B222
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 1658
Extension :	1658
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng Qld MSc London PhD Heriot-Watt

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)

Professional Affiliations

President, Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM)
Council Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Research Interests

Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures;
Structural Concrete;
Thermodynamics in Solid Mechanics.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Chen, G. & G. Baker (2004). "Energy Surface and Bifurcation Analysis in Softening Plasticity". Advances in Structural Engineering. 7(5). 1-9.

Chen, G. & G. Baker (2004). "Incompatible 3 - node interpolation for the plastic multiplier in gradient-dependent plasticity". Structural Engineering and Mechanics. 17 (1). 87-97.

Baker, G. & de Borst, R. (2005). An anisotropic thermo-mechanical damage model of concrete at transient elevated temperatures. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 363,2603-2628.

Most notable :

Baker, G. (1991). Optimum pointwise reinforcement requirements in plastic fracturing continua. Int. Jnl. Solids & Struct., 28(1), 87-104.

Baker, G. (1992). Accelerated bisection techniques for tri- and quindiagonal matrices. Int. Jnl. Numer. Meth. Engrg., 35, 203-218.

Khennane, A. & Baker, G. (1992). Thermo-plasticity models for concrete under varying temperature and biaxial stress. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. A, 439, 59-80.

Baker, G., Pavlovic, M.N. & Tahan, N. (1993). An exact solution to the two-dimensional elasticity problem with rectangular boundaries under arbitrary edge forces. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond., 343, 307-336.

Hunt, G.W. & Baker, G. (1995). Principles of localization in the fracture of quasi-brittle structures. Jnl. Mechs. Phys. Solids., 43(7), 1127-1150.

Rasmussen, L.J. & Baker, G. (1999). A large-scale experimental investigation of deformable RC box beams. ASCE Jnl. Struct. Engrg., 125 (3), 227-235.

Stabler, J. & Baker, G. (2000). Fractional step methods for the thermo-mechanical damage analysis at transient elevated temperatures. Int. Jnl. Numer. Meths. Engrg., 48, 761-785.

Stabler, J. & Baker, G. (2000). Coupled thermo-plasticity and damage at transient elevated temperatures. Proc. ECCOMAS CD-Rom.

Chen,G. & g. Baker (2004). "An Analytical Model for Predication of crack Spacing Due to Shrinkage in Concrete Pavements." Jornal of Structural Engineering. 130 (10) 1529-1533.

Baker, G. (2005). Thermodynomics in Solid Mechanics. A Commentary. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 363, 2465-2478.

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 22 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Scholarship)