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Engineering and Technology
China
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
87
Citations
23564
World Ranking
345
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award

Overview

Ben Young is a researcher affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China specializing in engineering with a focus on civil and structural engineering. Their scholarly contributions extend primarily into building and construction as well as mechanics of materials. The body of work reflects a sustained engagement with computational mechanics and mechanical engineering components related to structural analysis.

The research topics covered by Ben Young include:

  • Structural Load-Bearing Analysis
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
  • Fire effects on concrete materials
  • Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
  • Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
  • Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis
  • Concrete Corrosion and Durability

Frequent collaborators in their research include Tak-Ming Chan, Madhup Pandey, Man-Tai Chen, Qiuyun Li, and Yancheng Cai. These co-authorships highlight a network of partnership around topics in structural engineering and material performance.

Ben Young has published extensively across key journals in their domain. The venues with the highest number of publications are:

  • Thin-Walled Structures
  • Engineering Structures
  • Journal of Constructional Steel Research
  • Journal of Structural Engineering
  • ce/papers

Selected recent papers exemplify the scope and focus of Ben Young's research output:

  • Experimental investigation on cold-formed steel stiffened lipped channel columns undergoing local-distortional interaction (2020, Thin-Walled Structures)
  • Experimental and numerical investigation on cold-formed steel built-up section pin-ended columns (2021, Thin-Walled Structures)
  • Beam-column tests of cold-formed steel elliptical hollow sections (2020, Engineering Structures)
  • CFDST sections with square stainless steel outer tubes under axial compression: Experimental investigation, numerical modelling and design (2020, Engineering Structures)
  • Post-fire residual material properties of cold-formed steel elliptical hollow sections (2021, Journal of Constructional Steel Research)

The research outputs emphasize experimental investigations, numerical modelling, and design related to cold-formed steel components and their behavior under various loading and fire conditions. The citations these papers have collected indicate engagement and relevance within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Behaviour of normal and high strength concrete-filled compact steel tube circular stub columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young;Dennis Lam

  • Behavior of High Strength Structural Steel at Elevated Temperatures

    Ju Chen;Ju Chen;Ben Young;Ben Young;Brian Uy;Brian Uy

  • The art of coupon tests

    Yuner Huang;Ben Young

  • Stress–strain curves for stainless steel at elevated temperatures

    Ju Chen;Ben Young

  • Experimental investigation of concrete-filled cold-formed high strength stainless steel tube columns

    Ben Young;Ehab Ellobody

  • Mechanical properties of pultruded carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) plates at elevated temperatures

    Ke Wang;Ben Young;Scott T. Smith

  • Experimental investigation of cold-formed steel material at elevated temperatures

    Ju Chen;Ben Young

  • Numerical simulation of concrete encased steel composite columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young

  • Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Plain Angle Columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young;Ben Young

  • Design and behaviour of concrete-filled cold-formed stainless steel tube columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young

  • Behavior of Cold-Formed High Strength Stainless Steel Sections

    Ben Young;Wing-Man Lui

  • Material properties and residual stresses of cold-formed high strength steel hollow sections

    Jia Lin Ma;Tak Ming Chan;Ben Young

  • Design of Cold-Formed Steel Built-Up Closed Sections with Intermediate Stiffeners

    Ben Young;Ju Chen;Ju Chen

  • Compression tests of cold-formed steel I-shaped open sections with edge and web stiffeners

    Jia-Hui Zhang;Ben Young

  • Material properties of cold-formed lean duplex stainless steel sections

    Yuner Huang;Ben Young

  • Experimental investigation on stub-column behavior of cold-formed high-strength steel tubular sections

    Jia-Lin Ma;Tak-Ming Chan;Ben Young

  • Performance of shear connection in composite beams with profiled steel sheeting

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young

  • Structural performance of cold-formed high strength stainless steel columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young

  • Nonlinear analysis of concrete-filled steel SHS and RHS columns

    Ehab Ellobody;Ben Young

  • Design of Cold-Formed Channels Subjected to Web Crippling

    Ben Young;Ben Young;Gregory J. Hancock;Gregory J. Hancock

  • Behaviour of structural stainless steel cross-sections under combined loading – Part I: Experimental study

    Ou Zhao;Barbara Rossi;Leroy Gardner;Ben Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Leroy Gardner
Leroy Gardner Imperial College London
James B.P. Lim
James B.P. Lim University of Waikato
Ehab Ellobody
Ehab Ellobody Tanta University
Tak-Ming Chan
Tak-Ming Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ou Zhao
Ou Zhao Nanyang Technological University
Dinar Camotim
Dinar Camotim Instituto Superior Técnico
Gregory J. Hancock
Gregory J. Hancock University of Sydney
Kim J.R. Rasmussen
Kim J.R. Rasmussen University of Sydney
Nuno Silvestre
Nuno Silvestre Instituto Superior Técnico
Mahmud Ashraf
Mahmud Ashraf Deakin University

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