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 Alan Lloyd

Assistant Professor

Ph.D.

Department of Civil Engineering

Structural Engineering

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Dr. Alan Lloyd joined the Department of Civil Engineering in January, 2015. Prior to this he was a graduate student, contract researcher, and part time professor at the University of Ottawa. He has a Doctorate and Master’s degree in civil engineering (structures) from the University of Ottawa, a Bachelors of Engineering from Lakehead University and a Diploma of Civil Engineering Technology from Camosun College. He also has a Diploma of University Teaching from the University of New Brunswick.

Dr. Lloyd has been involved in several consulting and contract testing projects related to explosive loads on structures. He has worked on projects for the Canadian government including PWGSC and DFAIT as well as for private engineering companies and manufactures of high tech blast mitigation technologies. Some of his work includes consulting on the blast vulnerability of the East Block of the Canadian Parliament and experimental and analytical validation of blast windows, blast doors, and composite retrofit materials for private sector manufactures.

During his graduate studies, he was the recipient of several academic awards including the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSD) for his doctoral studies and the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGSM) for his master’s. He has competed in the 2010 and 2011 National Security Innovation Competition (Colorado Springs, Colorado) where he won first prize in both years for innovative technologies retrofit structures against explosive loads. In 2013 his team won the ACI Blast Blind Prediction Contest for modeling normal strength concrete with single-degree-of-freedom dynamic analysis and came in second in the high strength concrete category. He also has several institutional academic awards from his graduate and undergraduate studies.

His current research focus includes explosive and impact loads on structures. Research is conducted using analytical tools including multi-physics simulations and simplified single and multi-degree-of-freedom dynamic analysis. Experimental research is conducted in the University of New Brunswick Structural Engineering Laboratory using a variety of test frames, universal testing machines, servo-electric controlled hydraulic actuators, and a drop mass impactor.