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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 assessing the durability of printed and finished materials, long-term performance of reinforced material, and using novel analysis techniques to analyse structural performance data in 3DCP and hybrid manufactured structures.
Study interests should include: Structures, material performance, composite materials, reinforced concrete, durability assessment, in-service assessment of structures, data analytics, programming, and large data.
The successful candidate is likely to have a background in structural and civil engineering, and/or structural mechanics.
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