Publications

Scott Sloan

    Laureate Prof. Scott Sloan
    Director
  • Geotechnical Stability Analysis
  • Limit Analysis
  • Nonlinear Finite Element Algorithms
  • Plasticity Theory for Geotechnical Applications
  • Georemediation

Professor Irina Belova

    Professor Irina Belova
    Co-Director
  • Ceramics
  • Diffusion Numerical Simulations
  • Diffusion Theory
  • Materials Science
  • Thermodynamics

Professor Graeme Murch

Professor Stephen Fityus

    Professor Stephen Fityus
    Principal Researcher
  • Engineering Geology
  • Expansive and Unsaturated Soils
  • In Situ and Laboratory Testing
  • Minesite Geotechnics
  • Slope Stability

Associate Professor Kristian Krabbenhoft

Associate Professor Olivier Buzzi

Dr Alexander Evteev

    Dr Alexander Evteev
    Principal Researcher
  • Computational Materials Science
  • Atomistic Modelling of Materials/li>
  • Defects and Diffusion
  • Phase Transformations
  • Structure, Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Dr Anna Giacomini

    Dr Anna Giacomini
    Principal Researcher
  • Mechanical and Hydromechanical Behaviour of Rock Joints
  • Piles Foundations and Foundations Design
  • Rock Mechanics
  • Slope Stability and Rockfall Analysis

Dr Majid Nazem

    Dr Majid Nazem
    Principal Researcher
  • Computational Geomechanics
  • Adaptive FE Methods
  • Contact Mechanics
  • Large Deformations
  • Dynamic Analysis
Dr Jinsong Huang

    Dr Jinsong Huang
    Principal Researcher
  • Probabalistic Geotechnics
  • Limit Analysis
  • Plasticity in Geomechanics
  • Oil resource Geomechanics
  • Particulate Methods and Micromechanics

Daichao Sheng

    Professor Daichao Sheng
    Co-Director
  • Computational Geomechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Professor John Carter

    Professor John Carter
    Pro-Vice Chancellor - Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
  • Elasticity
  • Plasticity
  • Offshore
  • Constituitive Modelling

Professor Peter Wriggers

Associate Professor Andrei Lyamin

Associate Professor Andrew Abbo

Associate Professor Richard Merifield

Dr Elena Levchenko

    Dr Elena Levchenko
    Principal Researcher
  • Atomistic Modelling of Materials
  • Defects and Diffusion
  • Structural and Phase Transformations
  • Metals, Intermetallic Compounds, Nanoparticles, Metallic Glasses

Dr Thomas Fiedler

    Dr Thomas Fiedler
    Principal Researcher
  • Cellular and Composite Materials
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Finite Element Methods
  • Mechanical Engineering

Dr James P Hambleton

    Dr James P Hambleton
    Principal Researcher
  • Engineering and Computational Plasticity
  • Steady and Unsteady Plastic Flow
  • Material-Object Interaction
  • Contact Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Analysis

Dr Shanyong Wang

    Dr Shanyong Wang
    Principal Researcher
  • Soft Soils Improvement
  • Compaction and Fracture Grouting
  • Damage and Fracture Mechanics
  • Coupled Multi-Physics Modelling
  • FEM and DEM

 

Research Associates
Dr Brett Turner

    Dr Brett Turner
    Research Associate
  • Aquifer
  • Contaminant Transport
  • Contamination
  • Remediation

Dr Md Rezaul Karim

    Dr Md Rezaul Karim
    Research Associate
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Geomaterials
  • Geomechanics
  • Resource Engineering

    Dr Wojciech Solowski
    Research Associate
  • Stress Integration Algorithms
  • Material Point Method
  • Constitutive Modelling
  • Unsaturated soils
  • Large Deformation Problems

    Dr Klaus Thoeni
    Research Associate
  • Numerical Methods (BEM, DEM, FEM)
  • Rock Mechanics and Rockfall Analysis
  • Minesite Geotechnics
  • Tunnelling and Underground Excavations
  • Structural Analysis

Dr Matt Helinski

Dr Chao Yang

    Dr Chao Yang
    Research Associate
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Shield Tunnel Construction
  • Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Dr Xianfeng Liu

    Dr Xianfeng Liu
    Research Associate
  • Contaminants Transport in Soils
  • Soil Microstructure Analysis
  • THMC Modelling of Underground Coal Fires

Dr Mina Kardai

    Dr Mina Kardani
    Research Associate
  • Nonlinear finite element analysis
  • Adaptive finite element analysis
  • Contact mechanics
  • Large deformation
  • Computational Geomechanics