Postgraduate Degrees by Research
We welcome your interest in undertaking postgraduate study as a member of one of the three research groups in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering. If you meet the requirements for postgraduate study by research, and any of the research themes below interest you, contact Dr Chengqinq Wu to discuss your preferred area of study and how you can join our postgraduate research team.
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- Application of genetic programming for rock damage assessment
- Artificial intelligence techniques applied to water resources management
- Coastal zone processes and near shore sediment transport
- Column separation in water hammer
- Comparisons between three-dimensional yield criteria for fractured and intact rock
- Composite steel and concrete structures
- Computer Aided Mine Design - CAMD
- Computer numerical modelling of hydraulic systems
- Design of a monorail system for rapid mine decline development
- Diagnosis and assessment of civil infrastructure
- Domestic waterhammer
- Earth retaining structures
- Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
- Emissions evaluation for the mining industry
- Enhancing learning and teaching in civil engineering
- Environmental geotechnics and landfills
- Expansive soil behaviour and design
- Failure criteria analysis based on microseismic/acoustic emission propagation
- Failure mechanism evolution for rigid rock blocks
- Fatigue assessment of residual strength and endurance
- Finite element modelling in structures and hydraulics
- Geostatistical applications in mining and environmental engineering
- Global optimisation of mining-metallurgical systems
- Hydraulic modelling of pipe networks and transients
- Hydrology, especially rainfall modelling
- In situ and laboratory testing of soil and rock
- Infrastructure diagnosis, assessment and rehabilitation
- In-situ stress measurements by acoustic emission techniques
- Joint probability analysis in water engineering
- Leak detection in pipe networks
- Masonry structures
- Measurement and sensing for integrated surface mining process engineering
- Mine design using simulation and animation models
- Mine finance and mineral economics
- Mixed-mode fracture toughness testing for rocks
- Modelling unsteady flow in irrigation systems
- Non-linear analysis and design of concrete structures
- Optimisation of water systems using genetic algorithms
- Physical hydraulic modelling
- Pillar design by numerical modelling
- Probabilistic methods in geomechanics
- Response of soils to cyclic loading
- Retrofitting structures with fibre reinforced plastic
- Risk and uncertainty
- River hydraulics
- Rock fracture frequency modelling
- Shear-induced fracture slip and permeability change - implications for long term performance of a deep geological repository
- Spatial variability of soils
- Stochastic modelling of fractures and fracture network in rock masses
- Sustainability in civil engineering
- Validation of the generalised Kirsch equations for the stability analysis of deep petroleum wellbores.
- Water quality monitoring and analysis
- Wetland modelling and design
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