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This PhD project is a part of the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship looking to support the climate change and net zero agenda. This opportunity forms a suite of five projects focusing on pushing 3D concrete printing and hybrid construction towards net zero manufacturing.
3-D concrete printing and the latest hybrid manufacturing processes (using robotic milling and finishing processes with concrete printing) are new digitally driven automated construction technologies that can be seen in manufacturing buildings worldwide. These processes have huge potential to address the challenge of net-zero construction manufacturing, but we need to understand how to do this and where the technical challenges are.
This PhD is part of a cohort of five PhDs focused on answering this question. It will bring together the disciplines of life-cycle analysis and circular economy, structural engineering, manufacturing engineering, and material science.
You will work together and develop as a team and your combined research will inform a roadmap of improvement that will influence these technologies worldwide.
This studentship will focus on developing new printing mortars and concretes using different aggregates, binders and exploring methods for improving printed material performance, maximising manufacturing speeds and volumes and developing material models for implementation in design tools.
Study interests should include: materials science, rheology, concretes, mortars, pumping, mixing, cement chemistry, mix design, construction materials, civil engineering, and automated placement.
The successful candidate is likely to have a background in materials, civil engineering, and/or process engineering.
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