Research Area
Concrete Technology
Specification and quality control of concrete
Investigation of alternative cementitious materials
Durability of concrete
High strength and high performance concrete
Ductility of concrete through the use of polymer fibres
Supplementary cementitious materials eg. fly ash, slag and silica fume
Properties of polymer modified concrete
Concrete Structures
Time effects including creep and shrinkage in reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
Finite element modelling of reinforced concrete including beamcolumn-slab connections
Collapse load behaviour of reinforced concrete slabs
Durability and ductility of concrete structures
Non-metallic tendons for prestressed concrete applications
Behaviour and strength of slender reinforced concrete columns
Studies on high-strength concrete
Reactive powder concrete
Reinforced concrete deep beams
Partially prestressed concrete beams
Analysis and design of end blocks for post-tensioned beams
Strength of precast prestressed concrete planks
Continuous prestressed concrete structures
Composite Structures
Strength and time dependent characteristics of steel-concrete
composite structures
Behaviour of composite beams in negative bending
Concrete composite members
Engineering Construction and Management
Construction operations. Equipment selection. Field layout.
Productivity.
Systems studies, systems engineering
Construction management, process planning and control
Construction process automation and field robotics
IT based inter-organisational collaboration
Project management
Contracts, quality, safety, environment and risk management
Management of people
Engineering economics. Financial management.
Time management. Asset management. Maintenance management
Marketing, strategic management
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Two-fluid systems with small density differences
Pollutant dispersion
Stratified flows
Physics of inland and coastal waters
Turbulence in water bodies and the atmosphere
Atmosphere/ocean interactions
Computational algorithms
Numerical modelling
Environmental Microbiology
Microbiology of waste treatment (including composting)
Environmental pathogens
Wastewater recycle
Geotechnical Engineering
Shear strength of jointed rock, soft rock and clay soils, strength of rockfill
Expansive soils
Mine tailings disposal
Uncertainty in geotechnical engineering
Risk assessment for slopes and dams
Landfill design
Contaminant transport
Site remediation
Embankment dams
Landsliding; groundwater response to rainfall, progressive failure, probability of failure
Influence of soil fabric and mineralogy on properties
Predicting excavatibility of rock
Groundwater
Dryland salinity studies
Groundwater modelling
Coastal groundwater
Groundwater geophysics
Hydrogeochemistry
Contaminant detection and movement
Borehole geophysics
Groundwater resource analysis
Surface water and groundwater interaction
Hydraulics and Coastal Engineering
Open channel flow and hydraulic structures
Fluvial and estuarine hydraulics
Catchment drainage and water quality
Sediment transport and dredging
Coastal structures and port engineering
Numerical and physical modelling
Hydraulics of water and wastewater treatment plants
Pump intakes, manifolds, pipe distribution and cooling water systems
Pollutant disposal and dispersion
Wetlands and stormwater pollution control
Flood modelling and floodplain management
Coastal dynamics, wind-wave interaction
Coastal and beach processes
Coastal zone management
Coastal imaging and remote sensing
Hydrology
Methods of flood estimation
Design based on flood estimates
Economics of data collection
Assessment, modelling, forecasting of drought
Computational hydraulics
Rainfall-runoff relationships
Water quality
Urban drainage
Catchment management
Computer applications in hydrology
Fluid mechanics
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
Finite element techniques and their applications in geotechnical engineering including static and dynamic loading
Numerical modelling of contaminant flow and flow in fractured and porous media
Numerical modelling of partially saturated flow
Numerical techniques in static and dynamic fracture mechanics and damage mechanics
Application of artificial intelligence and fuzzi-sets in geotechnical engineering
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Pavement Engineering
Industrial and airport pavements
Pavement management and rehabilitation
Interlocking concrete block pavements
Accelerated trafficking studies of pavements and pavement materials
Constitutive relationships of soils and pavement materials
Pavement design and analysis
Steel Structures
Thin walled sections and buckling of steel members
Computer aided design of steel structures
Computational Structural Mechanics
Stability analysis using bubble functions
Large scale limit and shakedown analyses
Nonsmooth mechanics
Inverse problems in the mechanics of materials
Limit and shakedown analyses in the presence of constitutive instabilities
Structural optimisation under complementarity constraints
Transport Engineering
Modelling of land use and transport interaction
Transport demand forecasting and planning practice
Intelligent transport systems
Microscopic simulation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic
Measurements, planning and control of traffic
Urban and rural transport system analysis and design
Traffic calming and travel demand management
Pedestrian and cycling facilities; modelling, analysis, planning, design
Airports and air transport
Airports and the environment
Transport and the environment; accidents, energy, intrusion, noise, pollution
Investigations into transport economics, policy and decision making
Economic evaluation and transport investments
Transport and health
Urban transport and sustainable development
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Municipal wastewater and sludge treatment
Mathematical modelling of wastewater treatment
Low cost treatment systems
Water quality
Nutrient control in wastewater treatment
Management of water quality in municipal supplies
Water quality management
Potable, environmental and industrial identification and control of public health risks in water supply
Water Resources Engineering
Interactions and processes involving particles and surfaces with application in the water and wastewater treatment industries and in natural and industrial aqueous systems
Experimental and computational studies of the fate and effects of pollutants
Hydro geochemistry of subsurface environments
Application of geographic information systems (GIS) to water resource management
Remote sensing in hydrologic modelling and resources management
Waste Management
Hazardous waste management
Modelling hazardous waste generation
Waste minimisation
Waste audits
Environmental management plans
High temperature incinerator
Solid waste management strategies
Transfer stations
Recycling incineration
Landfill management plans
Leachate generation and control
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