I design and assess industrial structures: equipment-supporting slabs, mine infrastructure steel and heavy ground-bearing foundations, for petrochemical, mining and private clients, working across SANS, Eurocode and CSA. Postgraduate nonlinear explicit FEA that shows up in production design, not just a thesis.
I am a Civil and Structural Engineering candidate with grounded delivery experience across residential, healthcare, water and industrial infrastructure, and a developing specialisation in computational structural mechanics and impact engineering that distinguishes my technical profile.
My engineering practice spans both ends of the discipline: from hands-on site delivery, supervising reinforced concrete construction on water infrastructure for Randwater, to the numerical frontier, running nonlinear explicit FEA in Abaqus to simulate high-velocity projectile impact on RC columns using advanced constitutive models including CDP, Johnson-Cook and Johnson-Holmquist (JH-2).
I am currently completing my MEng at the University of Johannesburg, with electives in stability of steel structures, advanced RC design, geotechnical design, finite element analysis and structural dynamics, building a postgraduate foundation that directly serves complex structural analysis work.
Building toward complete structural engineering practice: computation-led design, modern construction technology and uncompromising safety, for the built environment we live in now and the one we hand on.
Advanced nonlinear FEA using Abaqus/Explicit to simulate RC column behaviour under high-velocity projectile impact. The study captures strain-rate sensitivity, damage evolution and failure mechanisms including cracking, crushing, spalling and projectile deformation, with full model verification and validation against experimental data.
University of Johannesburg. Coursework complete; minor dissertation in final examination.
Design and analysis beyond elastic methods: strut-and-tie and truss analogy models for discontinuity regions, yield line theory for slab collapse mechanisms, and plastic analysis of indeterminate structures. Worked to Eurocode 2 alongside the South African concrete codes, with emphasis on why provisions differ between them.
Concrete as an engineered material rather than a code grade: hydration and microstructure, aggregate and binder selection, deterioration mechanisms including chloride ingress, carbonation and sulphate attack, and durability design against a required service life.
SDOF and MDOF systems, free and forced vibration, harmonic and periodic excitation, damping, modal analysis and response spectra, D'Alembert and Lagrangian formulations, and continuous systems: the basis for machinery-induced vibration, seismic response and impact loading.
Formulation from first principles: shape functions, element selection, mesh convergence and sensitivity, integration schemes and hourglass control, geometric and material nonlinearity, and explicit versus implicit solution. Carried directly into the dissertation and into component-based connection design in practice.
Bearing capacity and settlement, shallow and piled foundations, retaining structures and lateral earth pressure, ground improvement, and dynamic soil behaviour, including seismic site response, liquefaction assessment and machine foundation design where soil-structure interaction governs.
Elastic and inelastic buckling, tangent and reduced modulus theory, lateral-torsional buckling, frame stability and effective length, and the influence of residual stresses and initial imperfections on real capacity. Grounded in SANS 10162 with the derivations traced back to CSA S16, from which the South African steel code is drawn.
Assessment and design of new openings and modifications to reinforced concrete slabs carrying operating plant. Existing load path read from record drawings and the structure itself; residual capacity established before anything is cut. Local strengthening designed to maintain punching and flexural capacity around new penetrations.
Structural steel design for mine infrastructure taken through to fabrication-ready detail. Connections designed and verified in IDEA StatiCa where geometry or load path fell outside standard tables. Bolt and weld specification driven by shop-versus-site fabrication sequence, not analysis alone.
Ground-bearing slab design for heavy structures, delivered remotely across borders. Subgrade reaction, bearing capacity and settlement governed the outcome as much as the slab itself. Geotechnical parameters interpreted from the available investigation; design basis set explicitly where local code coverage was thin.
Structural design and assessment for petrochemical, mining and private clients. Equipment-supporting slabs, including openings and modifications to structures in operation; mine infrastructure steel with connection design in IDEA StatiCa; and heavy ground-bearing foundations delivered cross-border to Nigeria. Working across SANS, Eurocode and CSA in Prokon, Robot Structural Analysis and IDEA StatiCa.
Led infrastructure master planning for Govan Mbeki Municipality across roads and stormwater management, assessing infrastructure condition and translating spatial data into capacity, feasibility and design-ready projects. At the same time served as Project Engineer on the design and construction of a community hall in Johannesburg, coordinating structural design, architecture and all engineering services from inception through to construction supervision.
Design and construct projects for Eskom including structural design of residential units (Ingula relocation), small sewage treatment systems, condition assessments of chemical facilities, and road networks. Produced engineering drawings in Revit and AutoCAD, coordinated multidisciplinary teams, and managed technical documentation.
Delivered across four projects for Randwater and Eskom including a R220M wastewater treatment upgrade and R20M perimeter wall. Supervised structural works, coordinated trades, managed claims and RFIs, applied FIDIC Red Book and NEC3 contracts, and liaised with community SMMEs.
Conducted condition assessments of healthcare facilities for the Limpopo Department of Health. Developed rehabilitation strategies, compiled comprehensive technical reports, and gained deep familiarity with SANS codes, wastewater systems, water purification, and health and safety principles.
I am open to structural engineering roles in organisations that value technical depth, and selectively available for specialist FEA and dynamics engagements alongside employment. If you are working on problems that require serious computational analysis, I want to hear about them.
Whether you are a consultancy, a developer, a mining house, or an organisation building something that needs to be analysed properly: reach out.