Dr Benny Suryanto BEng(Petra) MEng(AIT) PhD(Tokyo)
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
School of the Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society
Institute of Infrastructure and Environment
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland
United Kingdom
Dr Benny Suryanto is an assistant
professor in the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE) at
Heriot-Watt University (HWU). His
research interests are primarily concerned with the development,
characterisation and numerical simulation of cement-based materials, with
particular focus on advanced cementitious composites such as Engineered Cementitious Composites
(ECCs).
Benny received his
first class BEng in Civil Engineering from Petra Christian University (Indonesia) in
2003 and his MEng in Structural Engineering in 2005 from the Asian Institute of Technology. He graduated with two prizes (http://intraweb.ait.ac.th/aru/newsl/Jul05/art/a4.html). Benny went on to undertake a PhD at the University of
Tokyo where he embarked on his journey into ECC research. From this work, he received an award from the journal of Advanced Concrete Technology for his
paper “Modelling and analysis of shear-critical
ECC members” (http://www.j-act.org/4m.html).
After obtaining his PhD
in 2009, Benny was a postdoctoral
fellow on a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) funded project,
titled ‘Integrated material design
and application of fibre reinforced concrete as an innovative construction material’
(JSPS/FF1/68; http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/data/gaitoku21-2e.pdf). Aspects of this work have been
patented (Patent No. JP2009000282250). During this time, he was awarded two Japan
Concrete Institute awards in 2011 and 2013 (http://www.jci-net.or.jp/j/jci/award/award-history.html). In 2012 he also won another award from the JACT
for his paper ‘An investigation into the
long-term excessive deflection of PC viaducts’ (http://www.j-act.org/4p.html).
Upon joining HWU in Nov
2012, Benny continued to work in ECC research, focusing on exploiting its
potential for civil infrastructure. He
has now developed an ECC mixture using materials local to the UK. His current research interests are investigating the self-healing and self-sensing properties of ECCs.