John Ginger

Prof John Ginger

Researcher
About
Prof John Ginger

Dr John Ginger is the Research Director of the Cyclone Testing Station, at James Cook University in Townsville.  He has been involved in research, testing and consulting in wind engineering since 1987. 

John has extensive experience in wind tunnel model studies and full-scale field tests on projects in Australia and overseas.  He has published papers and presented seminars on wind loading of structures in the areas of external and internal pressure characteristics, fluctuating loads on building components and their response, and structural vulnerability.

Project leadership

Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
This study identified vulnerable legacy house types across Australia and developed cost-effective retrofits for mitigation damage during windstorms. These evidence-based strategies will aid policy formation and decision making by Government and industry, and provide guidelines detailing various options and benefits to homeowners and the industry for retrofitting typical at-risk houses in Australia. The final report presents an overview of the research approach used for this project including the selection of house types, the development of the Vulnerability and Adaptation to Wind Simulation software and the Internet-based guidelines, Weather the Storm.
Research team:
medwards, mwehner, gboughton, dasmith, jholmes, kparackal, hryu

Supervisory roles

Project Student
The structural response and progressive failure of batten to rafter connections under wind loads kparackal
Wind induced internal pressures in industrial buildings mhumphreys
Wind induced damage to a legacy house, TC Yasi.
03/2021
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events - f...
Ginger,J.,Parackal,K.,Henderson,D.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Edwards,M.
Damage due to Cyclone Debbie. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station
09/2020
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: an...
Parackal,K.,Wehner,M.,Ginger,J.,Ryu,H.,Henderson,D.,Edwards,M.
Cyclone damage in Queensland.
05/2020
Journal Article
Progressive failures of batten to rafter connections under fluctuating...
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
Delegates at AFAC19, Melbourne.
12/2019
Conference Paper
Modelling the vulnerability of a high-set house roof structure to wind...
Parackal,K.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Ginger,J.,Smith,D.,Henderson,D.,Edwards,M.
Damage from cyclone Debbie. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station, James Cook University
04/2019
Journal Article
Internal pressures in a full-scale test enclosure with windward wall o...
Humphreys,M.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
Adelaide floods. Source: SA SES Flickr
06/2019
Report
Rainwater ingress through residential sliding doors
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Leblais,A.,Henderson,D.
Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, USA. Photo: Daniel Smith.
12/2019
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events - a...
Ginger,J.,Parackal,K.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Henderson,D.,Edwards,M.
Damage to houses after a cyclone has past through in Queensland, 2009.
12/2019
Report
Model for assessing the vulnerability of Australian housing to windsto...
Parackal,K.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.,Edwards,M.
Cyclone damage in Queensland 2009
04/2019
Report
Analysis of damage surveys of houses and preliminary input of VAWs
Henderson,D.,Smith,D.,Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.
Cyclone Yasi roof damage. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station, James Cook University
06/2019
Report
Retrofitting of a high-set Queensland house for wind loading
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Wehner,M.,Henderson,D.
Roof of a building damaged by a severe wind event. Photo: James Cook University Cyclone Testing Station.
12/2019
Report
Community benefits of roof upgrades
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.,Wehner,M.
Roof structure of a house under construction. Photo: David Henderson
03/2019
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events in...
Henderson,D.,Ginger,J.,Smith,D.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Edwards,M.
09/2018
Conference Paper
Large damage bills to buildings from cyclones can be reduced by small...
Henderson,D.,Smith,D.,Ginger,J.
Photo credit: Cyclone Testing Station, James Cook University
04/2018
Journal Article
Distribution of wind loads in metal-clad roofing structures
Jayasinghe,N.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.,Walker,G.
02/2018
Journal Article
Wind load fluctuations on roof batten to rafter/truss connections
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
Wind damage to roof from cyclone Ului in Queensland, 2010.
09/2018
Journal Article
Fragility and climate impact assessment of contemporary housing roof s...
Stewart,M.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.,Ryan,P.
05/2017
Conference Paper
Load sharing between batten to rafter connections under wind loading
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Smith,D.J.,Henderson,D.
09/2017
Report
Improving the resilience of housing to severe wind events: annual proj...
Henderson,D.,Smith,D.,Ginger,J.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Edwards,M.
06/2017
Report
Tropical Cyclone Debbie: damage to buildings in the Whitsunday Region
Boughton,G.N.,Falck,D.J.,Henderson,D.,Smith,D.J.,Parackal,K.,Kloetzke,T.,Mason,M.S.,Humphreys,M.,Navaratnam,S.,Bodhinayake,G.,Ingham,S.,Ginger,J.
Journal Article
Wind loads on solar panels mounted parallel to pitched roofs, and acti...
Leitch,C.J.,Ginger,J.,Holmes,J.D.
12/2016
Conference Paper
Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
02/2016
Journal Article
Wind uplift strength capacity variation in roof-to-wall connections of...
Satheeskumar,N.,Henderson,D.,Ginger,J.,Wang,C.H.
Photo credit: Cyclone Testing Station, James Cook University
09/2016
Journal Article
Wind loads on contemporary Australian housing
Parackal,K.,Humphreys,M.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
07/2016
Conference Paper
Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections
Parackal,K.,Ginger,J.,Henderson,D.
09/2016
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: An...
Smith,D.,Henderson,D.,Ginger,J.,Wehner,M.,Ryu,H.,Edwards,M.
02/2015
Conference Paper
Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events Con...
Henderson,D.,Ginger,J.
02/11/2015
Report
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: An...
Smith,D.,Henderson,D.,Ginger,J.,Wehner,M.
Conference Paper
Investigation of damage: Brisbane 27 November 2014 sever storm event -...
Parackal,K.,Mason,M.S.,Henderson,D.,Smith,D.J.,Ginger,J.
27 Aug 2019
Mitigating Wind Damage Caused by Internal Pressures
mitigation
A broken door or window during a windstorm allows wind to enter the building and push on the roof...
27 Aug 2019
VAWS – Vulnerability and Adaptation to Wind Simulation
cyclone, engineering
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Wind Simulation (VAWS) is a software package that can be used to...
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
19 Sep 2018
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
cyclone, engineering
This project aims to investigate and reduce damage from windstorms by developing vulnerability...
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
29 Jun 2017
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
cyclone, engineering
This project aims to investigate windstorm risk mitigation by: (a) developing vulnerability models...
Wind induces internal pressures in industrial buildings
29 Jun 2017
Wind induces internal pressures in industrial buildings
cyclone, engineering
Internal pressures are generated inside a building during a wind storm from openings in the...
Daniel Smith Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
infrastructure, resilience
Many of us live in homes with vulnerabilities that contribute to community wind risk.
Mitchell Humphreys Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
Internal pressure fluctuations in industrial buildings
infrastructure, resilience
Internal pressures can contribute to a large portion of the net wind load on a building.
Korah Parackal Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections
infrastructure, resilience
Peak wind loads on batten to truss connections on a typical gable roof house were examined using a...
Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events
18 Aug 2015
Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events
mitigation, resilience
Many of us live in homes with vulnerabilities that contribute to community wind risk. This project...
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
25 Aug 2014
Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events
Typically, older houses do not offer the same level of performance and protection during windstorms...

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