Civil Engineering PhD

This research groups use experimental and numerical techniques to investigate the following: Performance-based design and assessment; High performance structures; Complex/special (and/or irregular) structures; Adaptable/adapting structures; Structural health monitoring /smart monitoring; New and/or adapting materials (for enhanced performance); Multi-hazard analysis/design/ (risk) management of structures; Optimization of civil engineering structures; Soil-structure interaction and the interaction between buried structures; Multi-scale soil mechanics; Novel sustainable pile systems; The behaviour of soils subjected to remoulding during geotechnical construction; Fluid-structure interaction (including extreme waves, floods, tsunamis, scour); Sediment transport mechanisms (from Geotechnics and Hydrodynamics point of view). Doctoral research students are initially registered for an MPhil. They transfer to PhD at the end of the first year following satisfactory submission and examination of a report and transfer presentation.