Lalita Lama
Lalita Lama is a current PhD candidate 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
November 2022 to November 2025
PUBLICATIONS
- 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
- December 2024 – Experimental evaluation of cold-formed steel connections in progressive collapse