Research Areas

The School of Civil and Resource Engineering is renowned for its research activities in the following five broad-based areas. This work attracts substantial funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), state and federal governments and industry. More information about the each group’s members, current projects and recent publications can be found by following the links to individual research group web pages.

Structural Engineering

• Structural Mechanics
• Structural Design
• Structural Analysis
• Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
• Ground Motion Processing and Simulation

Geomechanics

• Environmental Geomechanics
• Foundation and Offshore Engineering
• In situ Properties of Soil
• Mining Mechanics

Rock Mechanics

• Fracture Mechanics
• Mechanism of Crack Growth
• Characterisation of Stress-Strain State in Rock Masses with Interacting Openings

Materials and Structures with Interlocking

Hydraulics

• Fluid/Structure Interactions
• Fluid/seabed interactions
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Physical and Numerical Modelling of Seabed Erosion and Scour Problems

Mining Engineering

• Mine Backfill
• Mine Engineering
• Underground Mining