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BY: IAN GILBERT

In the Australian Research Council’s latest round of Discovery and Linkage grants, UNSW received the most funding of any university in the country – $47.8 million.

By far the best performing School in the top performing University was the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with almost 10% of the University’s total being won by staff from the School.

With eight new Discovery Grants and 4 new Linkage grants (totaling in excess of $4.3m), the School is by far the most successful Engineering School in the country. 

The new grants are focussed within two of the School’s research centres, the UNSW Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) and the Water Research Centre (WRC).

Congratulations to Professor Mark Bradford, who won his second Australian Professorial Fellowship, just the 5th ever awarded in the disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Australia. 

The School’s successful ARC Discovery grants are:

DP1096454 Prof MA Bradford ; Dr G Ranzi; Dr A Heidarpour (CIES) $750,000
Unified analysis of steel and composite frame structures subjected to static, thermal, earthquake and blast loading

DP1096560 Prof RI Gilbert (CIES) $280,000
Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected to loading and environmental extremes

DP1096480 Prof N Khalili ; Dr RK Niven; Dr M Oeser (CIES) $360,000
CO2 sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, double porosity media

DP1096497 Prof N Khalili; Dr AR Russell (CIES) $270,000
Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental investigation

DP1097096 Dr Y Pi (CIES) $130,000 Interval nonlinear analysis of spatially curved structures with material and geometric uncertainties.

DP1094451 A/Prof C Song; Dr W Gao ; Prof W Becker (CIES) $420,000
Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled boundary finite -element method

DP1095722 Dr G Peters; Dr WL Peirson ; Prof NJ Ashbolt (WRC) $320,000
Interdisciplinary greenhouse gas assessment -nitrous oxide emissions from marine wastewater disposal

DP1096691 Prof RM Stuetz; Dr KR Murphy ; Prof R Bro (WRC) $330,000
Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact Assessment

The School’s successful ARC Linkage grants are:

LP100100598 Prof Stephen J Foster, Dr Vute Sirivivatnanon, (CIES) $150,000
Prof Mark G Stewart
A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for Reinforced Concrete Structures

LP100100806 Dr Markus Oeser, Mr Alan Pearson, (CIES) $160,000
Prof Nasser Khalili, Prof Dr Brian Shackel
Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- Experimental  and Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design

LP100100056 Prof Trevor D Waite, Dr Xiaomao Wang, (WRC) $548,000
A/Prof Gregory L Leslie, Dr Xia Huang, Dr Heriberto A Bustamante,
Prof Xianghua Wen, Dr Jing Guan
Optimisation of nutrient removal, membrane fouling and sludge dewatering in hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor treatment of wastewaters

LP100100852 Prof Trevor D Waite, Prof Richard G Luthy, (WRC) $600,000
Dr Souhail Al-Abed, Dr Graeme E Batley
Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments

In addition, Dr Heather Coleman (WRC), Dr Will Glamore (WRC) and Dr Jean Li (CIES) were all chief investigators on successful Linkage grants to be administered by other universities.

Congratulations to all those who contributed to this outstanding performance.