New Civil RHD students who are commencing in Research Quarter 4, 2017

Please welcome our new RHD students for Research Quarter 1, 2017:

Student

Program

Principal Advisor

Research Group

Einat GRIMBERG

PhD

Prof. Carlo Prato

Transport Engineering

Huu Phu NGUYEN

PhD

Prof. CM Wang

Structural Engineering

Yuan ZHANG

PhD

Prof. Ling Li

Environmental Engineering

Linxue ZHAO

PhD

Dr Dorival Pedroso

Geotechnical Engineering

Civil RHD students who have graduated in Research Quarter 3, 2017

Congratulations to the following students who have successfully completed their RHD program in Research Quarter 3, 2017:

Student

Program

Principal Advisor

Thesis Title

Maziar GHOLAMI KORZANI

PhD

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Scheuermann

A new approach in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to simulate hydraulically induced deformation processes in Geomechanics

Harshani HANDAPANGODA MUDALIGE DONA

PhD

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Scheuermann

Micro-scale flow and induced contact erosion in granular media

Seyed Farshad HASHEMI REZVANI

PhD

Dr Hamid Ronagh

Robustness of Steel Moment Resisting Frames Subjected to Travelling Fire and Structural Element Removal

Zhifang HU

MPhil

Dr David Callaghan

Investigation of the Use of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Software for Continental Shelf Scale Simulations of Surface Gravity Waves

Danielle LESTER

PhD

Prof. José Torero

Delivering Superior Megaproject Performance Outcomes Through Timely Intervention in the Civil Engineering Curriculum

Duy NGUYEN

PhD

Dr Vinh Dao

Early-Age Cracking in Concrete Structures: Mechanisms and Control

Fabio Luis DE OLIVEIRA

PhD

Dr Matthew Mason

Cascading Collapse of Transmission Line Structures

Civil RHD students who have submitted their thesis in Research Quarter 3, 2017

Congratulations to the following students who have successfully submitted their thesis for examination in Research Quarter 3, 2017:

Student

Program

Principal Advisor

Thesis Title

Somayeh BEHRAFTAR

PhD

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Scheuermann

Micromechanical aspects of fracture propagation in brittle material

Miriam PECES-GOMEZ

PhD

Prof. Bill Clarke

Controlling anaerobic digestion to produce targeted compounds

Successful applicants for the Civil RHD student travel grant – Round 3, 2017

Congratulations to the following students who were successfully nominated for the Civil RHD student travel grant in the round 3, 2017.

Student

Program

Principal Advisor

Conference

Guanxi YAN

PhD

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Scheuermann

The 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),Hong Kong

3-5 August 2018

Mohadeseh RABHAR

PhD

Prof. Mark Hickman

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting Washington, DC, US

7-11 January 2018

Svitlana PYROHOVA

PhD

Prof. Mark Hickman

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting Washington, DC, US

7-11 January 2018

Partha MISHRA

PhD

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Scheuermann

The 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),Hong Kong

3-5 August 2018

SM Sohel MAHMUD

PhD

Prof. Luis Ferreira

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting Washington, DC, US

7-11 January 2018