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Inverse Methods for Characterising Hydraulic Properties of Soils Under Unsaturated Conditions

New indirect methods for estimating material properties of partially saturated soils are developed based on infiltration tests and inversion of multi-phase hydro-mechanical equation more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Discontinuous Discrete Methods for Solving the Multi-phase Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Partially-saturated Soils

The goal of the project is to develop robust finite-element type solvers of the equations describing the multi-phase hydro-mechanical behaviour of partially saturated soils, hence a more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Empirical evidence of habits and patterns in public transport use

Demand for public transport systems is determined by high-level strategic decisions (home and work location choices), habits (preferred routes and modes) and real-time response more...

Supervisor(s): Moylan, Emily (Dr)

Novel biophotonic devices

The project will explore novel biomedical applications of a new type of fibre, taking advantage of our recent breakthrough in fabrication of fibres in low Young's modulus materials more...

Supervisor(s): Fleming, Simon (Professor)

How do travellers think about reliability?

There is increasing recognition of the value of reliability in the transport system. Better data availability makes it possible to measure variability and infer its importance throu more...

Supervisor(s): Moylan, Emily (Dr)

Traffic Programming - Algorithms for Cooperative Behaviour among Unconnected AVs

Current AV algorithms aim to safely manoeuvre a vehicle through traffic without involving humans. These algorithms do not consider implications on the efficiency of traffic as a who more...

Supervisor(s): Levinson, David (Professor)

Metamaterial Hyperlenses for THz Sub-diffraction Imaging

Metamaterials are an exciting new class of artificial materials that can have extraordinary properties functionality. We have demonstrated a novel technique to make them and hav more...

Supervisor(s): Fleming, Simon (Professor)

Scaling Safe Construction in Humanitarian Shelter

This research seeks to investigate strategies to scale safe shelter and housing construction practice in the aftermath of disasters and conflicts in developing communities. Potentia more...

Supervisor(s): Opdyke, Aaron (Dr)

A modal comparison of resiliency and reliability

Reliability and resilience capture a transport network’s ability to provide consistent accessibility under a range of conditions. Resilience is impacted by the structure of th more...

Supervisor(s): Moylan, Emily (Dr)

Design of Novel Channel Coding Techniques for Short Packet Transmission in Massive Internet of Things

In this project, the channel code design problem for massive Internet of Things (IoT) is considered by taking into account the unique characteristic of massive IoT, i.e., short leng more...

Supervisor(s): Shirvanimoghaddam, Mahyar (Dr), Li, Yonghui (Professor), Vucetic, Branka (Professor)