Rate My Professor Xing Ma

Professor Xing Ma, Professor of Structural Engineering at Adelaide University’s School of Civil Engineering and Construction, has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and research in civil engineering. He earned his PhD from Tongji University in China in 2000. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a lecturer at Tongji University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, with research focused on the nonlinear dynamic behaviour of tower structures and cable structures.

From 2004 to 2010, Professor Ma worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, contributing to the “Composite Structural Assembly” program, where his efforts concentrated on thin-skinned composite structures, skin buckling phenomena, concrete-steel interface bonding-slip behaviour, and practical design procedures for composite panels. He joined the University of South Australia in 2010, now Adelaide University, shifting his research to steel structures, composite structures, and structural applications of sustainable materials. His specializations include prefabricated steel structures and composite structures, structural stability and dynamics, wind engineering and earthquake engineering, superstructure-foundation-soil interactions, and structural behaviour of sustainable materials. Key publications include Roychand et al. (2020), "A comprehensive review on the mechanical properties of waste tire rubber concrete," Construction and Building Materials; Youssf et al. (2019), "Influence of mixing procedures, rubber treatment, and fibre additives on rubcrete performance," Journal of Composite Science; Eltayeb et al. (2022), "Composite walls composed of profiled steel skin and foam rubberized concrete subjected to eccentric compressions," Journal of Building Engineering; Youssf et al. (2014), "An experimental investigation of crumb rubber concrete confined by fibre reinforced polymer tubes," Construction and Building Materials; and Ma et al. (2008), "Practical analysis procedure for compressive local buckling of skin sheets in composite panels," Advanced Steel Construction.