Dr Tatheer Zahra

Researcher

Queensland University of Technology

About

Dr Tatheer Zahra’s research is in structural and earthquake behaviour of various types of masonry including brick masonry, reinforced block masonry and mortarless interlocking masonry. She has ongoing and long-term partnerships with Australian masonry industries including Concrete Masonry Association of Australia (CMAA), Brickworks and Adbri Masonry. Dr Zahra is also a member of Standards Australia BD-004 committee for shaping reliable design guidelines for different masonries in Australian Masonry Standards (AS3700). She has delivered beneficial outcomes to industry in terms of developing test data that informed the design guidelines for reinforced masonry under compression and lateral in-plane loading caused by earthquakes.