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Conduction in Compacted Granular Materials

This project will focus on developing a unified constitutive model for granular heat flow and electrical conduction by combining critical fine-scale effects emerging under extreme c more...

Supervisor(s): Gan, Yixiang (Dr)

The modes of granular segregation

Granular segregation will be studied using dynamic X-ray tomography. This will be a pioneering study into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of segregation. more...

Supervisor(s): Marks, Benjy (Dr)

Dynamic Responses of Granular Materials to Impact Loading

This project aims to experimentally investigate the dynamic responses of granular materials to high strain rates loading using split Hopkinson bar. The experimental data will be use more...

Supervisor(s): Shen, Luming (Associate Professor)

Modelling the behaviour of random materials

During this project the PhD student is expected to derive and establish fundamental relationships that will help in describing the behaviour random materials. more...

Supervisor(s): Einav, Itai (Professor)

Micromechanics of soft particulate materials

The purpose of this project is to study experimentally and numerically the micromechanics of deforming soft particles, from a radically new way. more...

Supervisor(s): Einav, Itai (Professor)

Development of fractal asperity microstructures and their effects on frictional properties

Hierarchical structures exhibiting self-affinity are abundant in nature. We seek to characterise how the evolution of such self-affine topographies is governed by microstructural pa more...

Supervisor(s): Hanaor, Dorian (Dr)

Levee formation in debris flows and avalanches

Levees are a feature of many gravity current flows, yet their formation is not fully understood. This project will track their formation in laboratory scale experiments, and develop more...

Supervisor(s): Marks, Benjy (Dr)

Nanotube purification

This project involves the development of conventional and microwave powered acid digestion processes which successfully remove catalysts and their supports from the nanotube product more...

Supervisor(s): Harris, Andrew (Professor)

Image analysis of the kinematics and size reduction of grains in cataclasis

The experimental challenges in this research will be quite unique in that we will endeavor to see and thereafter analyse the kinematics and the grain size reduction using two novel more...

Supervisor(s): Einav, Itai (Professor)

Subbase degradation: permeability and strength reductions by means of breakage soil mechanics

How exactly should grain crushing be introduced to model permeability and strength reductions? The answer of this question will be the primary objective of this PhD research, which more...

Supervisor(s): Einav, Itai (Professor)