Research
Information on our research can be found in our Research Brochure. We are currently looking to recruit highly motivated students to undertake postgraduate research in the following areas:
Innovative materialsand sustainable construction (contact: Dr Mizi Fan)
Timber and reengineered timber products; Natural fibre composites; Wood cement composites; Materials from recyclates; Advanced composites; Lightweight construction; Innovative construction design.
Geo-engineering and the environment (contact: Dr Philip Collins)
Site investigation; characteristics and stability of engineering soils and sediments; coastal and floodplain environmental change; earthquake impacts; cold environment soil and hydraulic processes; environmental engineering.
Advanced structures (contact: Dr Giulio Alfano)
Analysis of RC beams retrofitted with FRP; cohesive-zone models for the analysis of delamination in composites and crack growth; Non linear analysis of reinforced-concrete structures; silo structures; monitoring bridges.
Fibre-reinforced concrete materials and structures, structural testing and modelling, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering (Contact: Dr Xiangming Zhou)
- Testing and modeling of shrinkage and fracture of concrete and other cement-based materials at early ages
- Advanced concrete technology, such as development of cement-based building products using extrusion technology; modeling of extrusion process of cement-based materials
- Rheology testing and modeling of highly concentrated cement-based materials suitable for extrusion
- Low carbon and low energy construction materials such as geopolymer, magnesium cement-based materials etc.
- Utilization of industrial waste such as GGBS, PFA etc. in construction materials
- Earthquake engineering and performance-based multi-hazards mitigation of high-rise building structures
- Testing and modeling of steel-concrete composite structures
- Testing and modeling of concrete segmental girder bridges
- Testing and modeling of fiber-reinforced concrete structures such as fiber-reinforced concrete ground slabs
Construction management principles and applications (Contact: Dr Nuhu Braimah)
Delay and disruption analysis in construction contracts, planning and programming, project change and claims management.
In addition, through our interdisciplinary links within the School of Engineering & Design, the University and beyond, and particularly the Energy & Environmental Sustainability and Complexity Collaborative Research Networks, we welcome enquiries from students interested in the following areas:
- Sustainability
- Energy systems
- Building services (e.g. climate control, refrigeration control)
- Waste assessment and treatment (water and solids), filtration and recycling
- Fluid dynamics
- Geophysics
- Environmental Change
- Geology and geomorphology (particularly carbonates, intertidal sediments, lakes, hazards)
- Urban Green Space
- Environmental geochemistry
- Radiometric dating
- Gender & Engineering
