Lalita Lama
Lalita Lama was a PhD student in the Department of Infrastructural Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She completed her Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China, in 2021. During her Master’s program, she conducted research on the structural behaviour of composite columns under compression. Before that, she gained valuable experience in the field of building design and construction for more than two years.
Her research interests include Structural Fire Engineering, Modular Building, Composite Structures, Composite Columns and Finite Element Modelling. Currently, she is investigating the performance of composite modular buildings under fire, with a particular emphasis on determining the influential parameters that affect the behaviour of these buildings.
PhD Start and End Dates
Lalita submitted her PhD in January 2026. She has accepted a role at Holmes Group as a Graduate Fire Engineer.
PUBLICATIONS
- December 2025 – Structural performance of modular buildings subjected to fire
- October 2025 – Horizontal tying force design for new connections of cold-formed steel structure
- August 2025 – Analysis of thermal-structural performance of modular buildings under various compartment fire locations
- December 2024 – Experimental evaluation of cold-formed steel connections in progressive collapse
- December 2024 – Comparative study on the fire performance of concrete-filled steel tubular and steel tube-confined reinforced concrete columns
- September 2024 – Fire behavior of ultra-high strength concrete filled steel tubular columns under non-uniform heating
- August 2024 – Behaviour of modular building incorporating CFST columns subjected to compartment fire (pp 165–176)
- June 2024 – Nonlinear analysis and design of high-strength concrete filled steel tubular columns under nonuniform fires