Dear all,
The University of Sheffield wishes to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on the EPSRC funded project: 'Ultimate and permissible limit state behaviour of soil-filled masonry arch bridges' (24 month contract).
The successful candidate will develop novel detailed direct analysis models of the soil-structure interactions which take place in a soil-filled masonry arch bridge, extending the scope of conventional computational limit analysis methods. Mathematical optimisation techniques will be used to obtain solutions, and a key challenge will be to then use such techniques to robustly and automatically identify appropriate model parameters from a large body of laboratory test data (which will include Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) data derived from digital images, to be collected by other project researchers). While the approach will be developed in the context of masonry arch bridges, this is an opportunity to develop new techniques of much broader applicability.
Full details are at:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEE746/research-associate/
(closing date is 26 April 2012)
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Thanks.
Matthew
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Matthew Gilbert
Computational Mechanics & Design Research Group Department of Civil and Structural Engineering University of Sheffield, Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK
T: +44 (0) 114 2225418
W: http://www.shef.ac.uk/civil/staff/academic/mg
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