Elliot Law

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Dr Elliot Law is the staff-in-charge of academic matters in the Engineering Design & Innovation Centre and programme coordinator of the Innovation & Design Programme. With a background in Civil Engineering, he supervises a wide range of projects in particular those that are related to structural design, urban mobility, and smart and sustainable cities. He is currently overseeing a number of projects on smart construction, building inspection and maintenance, work automation, and sustainable living in collaboration with a few industry partners. Elliot also works on research in nature-inspired protective structures such as functionally graded honeycombs and fish scale structure composite systems. His areas of expertise include solid mechanics, numerical modelling, and simulations in particular finite element analyses.

Prior to his present appointment, Elliot was a research staff in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering where he was involved in the mentoring and supervision of final year undergraduate students, as well as the planning and teaching of undergraduate modules in particular structural analysis and structural steel design. He has also been actively exploring the use of information technology-based systems to improve and enhance student learning.

Elliot is also presently serving as the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programmes at the College of Design and Engineering and Deputy Director of the Engineering Design & Innovation Centre.

Educational Background

2012 Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore

2007 Bachelor of Engineering (Civil Engineering), First Class Honours, National University of Singapore

Employment History

Jan 2019 to present: Senior Lecturer, Engineering Design & Innovation Centre, NUS

Mar 2013 to Dec 2018: Lecturer, Engineering Design & Innovation Centre, NUS

Mar 2012 to Feb 2013: Research Fellow, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, NUS

Oct 2011 to Feb 2012: Research Engineer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, NUS

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, nature-inspired design, protective structures, structural dynamics, finite element modelling, engineering education

Projects Supervised

Innovations in Intelligent Systems

Innovating for Better Healthcare

Innovating for Future Mobility

Innovating for Smarter Living

Innovating for Sustainable Cities

Selected Research Papers

  • Chua YS, Law E, Pang SD and Quek ST (2017). Impact behaviour and design optimization of a ductile scale-cellular composite structure for protection against localized impact. International Journal of Solids and Structures 122: 162-174.
  • Chua YS, Law E, Pang SD and Quek ST (2016). Fish scale-cellular composite system for protection against low-velocity impact. Composite Structures 145: 217-225.
  • Law E, Pang SD and Quek ST (2012). Effects of particle arrangement and particle damage on the mechanical response of metal matrix nanocomposites: a numerical analysis. Acta Materialia 60(1): 8-21.
  • Law E, Pang SD and Quek ST (2011). Discrete dislocation analysis of the mechanical response of silicon carbide reinforced aluminum nanocomposites. Composites Part B: Engineering 41(1): 92-98.