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Prof L Susmel No more applications being accepted Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Sheffield United Kingdom Civil Engineering Structural Engineering

About the Project

This PhD projects aims at investigating the accuracy of the Theory of Critical Distances (TCD) in modelling, in the medium-cycle fatigue regime, the behaviour of notched un-reinforced concrete. The TCD postulates that the fatigue damage extent has to be estimated by directly post-processing the entire linear-elastic stress field damaging the material in the vicinity of the crack initiation locations. According to the TCD’s modus operandi, fatigue lifetime is estimated by using a scale length parameter which is treated as a material property. The accuracy of this method will be checked against a large number of experimental results being generated by testing notched specimens of un-reinforced concrete.

Funding Notes

An upper second class honours degree, or a combination of qualifications and/or experience equivalent to that level - The successful candidates for this position must hold a good relevant undergraduate or MSc degree (Civil/Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Concrete Materials Science).

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University of Sheffield

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