Scour pit around a submerged vertical cylinder under water flow.

Our School conducts a wide range of research projects at the forefront of all major areas of Civil and Resource Engineering.

These projects are strongly linked with industrial needs and are largely funded by industry as well as various departments of the state and federal governments.

Our School has specialist research expertise and superb facilities supported by a team of enthusiastic and competent technical and administrative staff.

Our postgraduate research also covers a variety of topics in the School's research areas.

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Research areas

• Structural Engineering - includes structural mechanics, design, analysis, dynamics and earthquake engineering, ground motion processing and simulation.
• Geomechanics - includes environmental geomechanics, foundation and offshore engineering, in situ properties of soil and mining mechanics.
• Rock Mechanics - includes fracture mechanics, mechanism of crack growth, and characterisation of stress-strain state in rock masses with interacting openings.
• Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics - includes fluid seabed and structure interactions, computational fluid dynamics, physical and numerical modelling of seabed erosion and scour problems, seabed morphology, experimental fluid mechanics, vortex shedding and controls of flow-induced vibrations using passive methods.
• Mining Engineering - includes mine backfill, mine engineering and underground mining.

Research centres

Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS)

The Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems provides solutions to worldwide offshore foundation needs by providing highly sophisticated modelling and experimental facilities and offering the services of internationally recognised researchers and consulting engineers.

Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG)

The Australian Centre for Geomechanics is a not-for-profit mining centre which undertakes research, education and training activities in the geomechanics disciplines to provide industry with the necessary tools and knowledge to ensure that safety is not simply a top priority on par with productivity, but rather an ethic that guides everything.

Deep Extraction of Earth Resources - ARC Research Network

The Deep Extraction of Earth Resources initiative aims to bridge gaps between related disciplines, to combine the testing and analytical capabilities of the research groups, to stimulate integration of theoretical and applied approaches targeting improved recovery of deep earth resources and to develop new educational programs in this area.

Collaborations

We collaborate our research activities with the Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering (CORE) at the National University of Singapore.