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Details for Dr John Macdonald
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr John Macdonald |
| Job title | Reader |
| Department | Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/civilengineering/people/person/john-h-macdonald/overview.html |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | M.A.(Cantab), Ph.D.(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Member of the Executive Committee of the Wind Engineering Society (WES) Member of the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) |
| Keywords | structural dynamics wind engineering bridges cable structures wind-induced oscillations pedestrian-induced vibrations structural monitoring cable dynamics |
| Areas of expertise | Vibrations of bridges and other civil engineering structures and their components, e.g. cables. Effects of wind on structures, particularly aerodynamic loads and aeroelastic instabilities. Pedestrian-induced vibrations and human-structure interaction (e.g. as on the London Millennium Bridge). Monitoring of full-scale structures. |