About
Colin Caprani
Monash University · CEng FIStructE · CPEng FIEAust NER · CEng FIEI · FIABSE · RPEV · MASCE
Colin Caprani leads the Structural Safety and Performance Group (SSPG) at Monash University. The group brings together bridge engineering, probability, monitoring, dynamics and software to make infrastructure decisions safer, more reliable and more rational.
His research specialises in highway bridge traffic loading for short- and long-span bridges; structural reliability and statistics of extremes; heavy-vehicle access to the road network; and the vibration serviceability of footbridges. His industrial design experience keeps that work grounded in the realities of assessment, access and asset management.
He works closely with road and rail authorities to keep ageing bridges safely in service — combining structural health monitoring, structural reliability and probabilistic model updating — and his open-source software has wide reach and many users globally. He is also a prominent media contributor on structural safety, on television (Al Jazeera, Sky News and more) and in print (ABC, The Conversation and more).
Profile & leadership
Chair of AS5100 Part 2 (bridge design loads); Board Member and Trustee of the Institution of Structural Engineers; Chair of CROSS-AUS and of CERRA; and a member of the Joint Committee on Structural Safety. The full picture, with standards, talks, editorial roles and committees, is on the talks page.
Education
- PhD in Bridge Engineering — University College Dublin · 2001–2005
Probabilistic analysis of highway bridge loading events - BSc Engineering & Diploma in Structural Engineering — Dublin Institute of Technology · 1995–1999
First Class Honours · placed first in class
Selected awards
In the media
A frequent commentator on structural safety — the Baltimore and Genoa bridge collapses, the Crimea bridge attack and the West Gate Bridge — across television (ABC, Al Jazeera, Sky, Nine), radio and print (The Conversation, AFR). See Outreach →
Contact
colin.caprani@monash.edu
GitHub ·Google Scholar ·ORCID ·YouTube
The original “About” and personal pages are kept in the archive →