Projects

The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.

Recruiting — indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit our Study website for PhD program and application information.

• PhD scholarship in construction sustainability and circularity Recruiting

  Team: Ngoc Tuan Nguyen, Tuan Ngo

• PhD scholarship in sustainable, low-carbon concrete

  Team: Ngoc Tuan Nguyen, Tuan Ngo

• Modelling of slope post-failure and run-out considering soil spatial variability and impact on infrastructures

  Team: Yinghui Tian

• Modelling pile driving in chalk and calcarenite soils using a hybrid continuous-discontinuous method

  Team: Yinghui Tian

• Advanced concrete composite system for hydrogen storage Recruiting

  Team: Ngoc Tuan Nguyen, Prof Tuan Ngo, Prof Marimuthu Palaniswami

• Strategic Transport and Energy Demand Model (STED)

  Team: Patricia Sauri Lavieri, To be announced

• Scale effects in geotechnical physical modelling in sand

  Team: Shiaohuey Chow

• Geotechnical behaviour of ultra-soft soils: experimental and numerical modelling

  Team: Shiaohuey Chow, Assoc Prof Mahdi Disfani

• Smart offshore site investigation using free-fall penetrometers

  Team: Shiaohuey Chow, Negin Yousefpour, Mark Cassidy

• Building 4.0 CRC

  Team: Ngoc Tuan Nguyen, Prof Tuan Ngo

• How does habitat-network structure drive ecology in riverine landscapes?

  Team: Angus Webb

• Improving the use of existing evidence in decision making for environmental management

  Team: Angus Webb

• Dynamic Evaluation of Soil-Retaining Structures under Train/Vehicle Impact Load

  Team: Negin Yousefpour, Prof. Nelson Lam; Prof. Priyan Mendis

• Hydrological processes in forested catchments

  Team: Andrew Western

• Innovative composite systems with enhanced resilience to extreme loads

  Team: Tuan Ngo, Prof Tuan Ngo, Dr Abdallah Ghazlan, Dr Tuan Nguyen

• Robust multiobjective optimisation for environmental system management

  Team: Wenyan Wu

• The impact of climate change on Australia’s water security

  Team: Conrad Wasko, Benjamin Henley, Rory Nathan

• Developing AI enabled vision for plastic waste identification and autonomous robotic sorting

  Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Dr Eric Schoof, Prof Priyan Mendis, Prof Shanika Karunasekara

• Smart AI enabled technologies for civil infrastructure

  Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Priyan Mendis

• Automatic generalisation of BIM for land administration

  Team: Davood Shojaei, Behnam Atazadeh

• Developing a chemical recycling process to upcycle residue plastics

  Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Gang Kevin Li

• Development of a 3D Digital Cadastral Database (3D-DCDB)

  Team: Davood Shojaei, Behnam Atazadeh

• Infrastructure assessment using Mixed Reality powered by Artificial Intelligence

  Team: Davood Shojaei

• Smart AI enabled robotic technologies for plastic waste sorting

  Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Eric Schoof, Priyan Mendis

• Recycling construction demolition waste to manufacture sustainable construction materials

  Team: Tuan Ngo, Prof Tuan Ngo, Prof Nelson Lam, Dr Rackel San Nicolas, Dr Tuan Nguyen

• Effect of partial drainage on plate anchor capacity in sand

  Team: Shiaohuey Chow

• Incorporating climate change projections in Australia’s flood guidance

  Team: Conrad Wasko

• Modelling biocementation of recycled sand and demolition wastes for pavements

  Team: Guillermo Narsilio

• Underwater acoustics: prediction of underwater noise caused by ocean interface processes and anthropogenic activities

  Team: Alexander Babanin

• A spatial network approach to maintaining river basin ecosystem values and managing hydrological threats

  Team: Angus Webb, Avril Horne

• Deep learning of boundary representation from point clouds

  Team: Kourosh Khoshelham

• Early detection of internal erosion in dams/levees: bridging between micro and macro scale behaviour Recruiting

  Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani

• High-definition maps of road environments

  Team: Kourosh Khoshelham

• Simulation-based engineering research of hydraulic fractures in naturally fractured rocks

  Team: Stephan Matthai

• Simulation-based engineering research of proppant transport in hydraulic fractures

  Team: Stephan Matthai

• Soil-structure interaction framework for plate anchors in sand under cyclic loading

  Team: Shiaohuey Chow

• Vehicle positioning using lidar

  Team: Kourosh Khoshelham

• Visual positioning in indoor environments

  Team: Kourosh Khoshelham

• Ensuring Sustainable Battery Minerals Industry in Australia through Life Cycle Assessment

  Team: Wen Li, Assoc Prof Jo Staines, Dr Shahjadi Farjana

• Bridge scour monitoring and forecast: implementation of an AI early warning system

  Team: Negin Yousefpour

• Evaluation of residual strength of rock based on acoustic emission data

  Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Samintha Perera

• When will catchments recover from drought?

  Team: Murray Peel

• Numerical simulation and physical modelling of turbulent fluid flow: aircraft drag reduction, rough-wall heat transfer, ship biofouling and sea waves Recruiting

  Team: Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins

• Connected transport system

  Team: Majid Sarvi

• Heterogeneities induced into a porous medium by reactive flow as investigated on the pore-scale

  Team: Irina Sin, Stephan Matthai (University of Melbourne), Allan Leal/ (ETH Zurich)

• Ensemble flood inundation forecasting using emulators of hydraulic models

  Team: Q J Wang, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan

• Ensemble flood, short-term and seasonal river flow forecasting

  Team: Q J Wang, Dr Tony Zhao, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan

• Security, risks and infrastructure protection

  Team: Nelson Lam, Priyan Mendis, Helen Goldsworthy, Lihai Zhang, Tuan Ngo, Cuong Kien Nguyen, Jack Yao, Elisa Lumantarna, Raymond Lumantarna,