Dear colleagues,
A new Lecturer position is now available to further expand our activity at the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG). Should you be interested in the position, please visit the website for more information at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/RB09403E. The closing date for application is 28th September 2012.
The NCG has an established record for fundamental and applied research in both soil mechanics and rock mechanics. It is now home to some 40 staff and researchers, has received a significant investment in strategic research infrastructure. Staff in the Centre are all committed to conducting internationally leading research and to using our combined expertise and resources to help industrial partners in the construction, mining and oil industries, to obtain solutions to the many challenging practical problems facing them.
The NCG is a multi-disciplinary research centre that brings together expertise in Mathematics, Materials, Civil and Mining Engineering to address both fundamental and practical issues in geotechnical engineering. The Centre is currently active in the following areas:
• constitutive and numerical modelling
• centrifuge modelling
• laboratory and in-situ testing
• soil and rock structure interaction
• transportation geotechnics
• underground excavation and tunnelling
The NCG provides a supportive and resourceful environment that encourages creative and scholarly activity. Newly commissioned research equipment includes a geotechnical centrifuge, a truck-based in-situ soil testing facility, hollow cylinder apparatus, high-pressure triaxial apparatus, dynamic triaxial apparatus, dynamic cyclic simple-shear apparatus and a full scale railway testing facility. In the rock mechanics laboratory, we have completely updated the control system for the major items of existing rock-testing equipment, including the 100 tonne RDP stiff press, the 150mm shear box and the instrumented drilling rig. The Centre is also well equipped with state-of-the art computer facilities to support our cutting-edge research on constitutive and numerical modelling.
Dr. Xia Li
on behalf of Prof. Hai-Sui Yu FREng
Faculty of Engineering
University Park
The University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering-rg/materialsmechanicsandstructures/ncg/nottinghamcentreforgeomechanics.aspx
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