PhD in Architecture, Building And Civil Engineering

Deterioration of earthworks slopes (cuttings and embankments), which support transport infrastructure and act as flood defences, is accelerating under increasing weather extremes resulting from global change, damaging critical infrastructure resilience./nThis project is part of the prestigious Loughborough University Vice Chancellor’s PhD Cluster – RAINDROP (Resilient eArthwork INfrastructure: Diagnosis, RehabilitatiOn & Prognosis). The Doctoral Researcher (DR) will join a cohort of DRs who will be working on a series of interlinked, interdisciplinary projects for sustainable, intelligent, and climate change-resilient infrastructure slopes./nThis PhD project will explore the potential role of automation in the construction and/or maintenance of earthworks, with the goal of developing a system-of-systems framework for the real-time control and delivery of, e.g., ‘printed’ geotechnical structures. The purpose is to remove workforces from hazardous environments, and to enhance the sustainability, speed, and quality of construction/maintenance processes./nLocation: Loughborough/nProvider: Loughborough University