Dr Hoang Nguyen

Assistant Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Hoang Nguyen is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering. Hoang is a structural engineer with a background in value engineering and structural analysis of residential houses and office buildings. Prior to joining Northumbria, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Engineering, University of Glasgow where he worked on the fracture analyses and structural integrity of graphite bricks in UK nuclear power plants within a project funded by EDF Energy. Before that, Hoang finished his PhD at Northumbria University where his work focused on the numerical prediction of structural/mechanical behaviours of functionally graded microstructures by means of generalised continua and isogeometric analysis. He also worked for more than three years in the industry before pursuing an academic career.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

His research interests include:

Data-driven predictions of materials and structures
Structural engineering and optimisation
Structural integrity
Finite element methods
Mechanics of microstructures
High-performance computing

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Machine learning algorithms for axial strength prediction of fully FRP-confined circular concrete columns, Khant, K., Shayanfar, J., Win, S., Nguyen, H., Rezazadeh, M. 29 May 2026, In: Materials and Emerging Technologies for Sustainability
Multi-layer Perceptron for Prediction of Axial Strength of Fully FRP-Confined Circular Concrete, Khant, K., Shayanfar, J., Nguyen, H., Rezazadeh, M. 8 Feb 2026, 12th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2025), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Thermo-mechanical buckling analysis of bio-inspired RotTPMS plates via quasi-3D HSDT isogeometric analysis, Tran, K., Duong, T., Nguyen, H., Nguyen-Xuan, H. Mar 2025, In: Materials and Emerging Technologies for Sustainability
Efficient mix design method for lightweight high strength concrete: A machine learning approach, Sifan, M., Nguyen, H., Nagaratnam, B., Thamboo, J., Poologanathan, K., Makul, N. 1 Sep 2023, In: Structures
Prediction of shear capacity of steel channel sections using machine learning algorithms, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage, M., Nguyen, H., Poologanathan, K., Gatheeshgar, P., Upasiri, I., Rajanayagam, H., Suntharalingam, T. 1 Jun 2022, In: Thin-Walled Structures
Efficient machine learning models for prediction of concrete strengths, Nguyen, H., Vu, T., Vo, T., Thai, H. 10 Jan 2021, In: Construction and Building Materials
Application of PHT-splines in bending and vibration analysis of cracked Kirchhoff–Love plates, Videla, J., Contreras, F., Nguyen, H., Atroshchenko, E. 1 Apr 2020, In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Isogeometric analysis for size-dependent nonlinear thermal stability of porous FG microplates, Thanh, C., Tran, L., Bui, T., Nguyen, H., Abdel-Wahab, M. 1 Aug 2019, In: Composite Structures
Vibration of cracked functionally graded microplates by the strain gradient theory and extended isogeometric analysis, Nguyen, H., Atroshchenko, E., Ngo, T., Nguyen-Xuan, H., Vo, T. 15 May 2019, In: Engineering Structures
Geometrically nonlinear polygonal finite element analysis of functionally graded porous plates, Nguyen, N., Nguyen, H., Lee, S., Nguyen-Xuan, H. 1 Dec 2018, In: Advances in Engineering Software