Study in UK: PhD Studentship in Vibration Dynamics – University of Sheffield

The Vibration Engineering Section (VES) at The University of Sheffield is a leading team of researchers and academics, led by Professor Aleksandar Pavic, Professor James Brownjohn, Dr Paul Reynolds and Dr Vitomir Racic. It’s exceptional post-doctoral and post-graduate researchers support its international reputation in vibration serviceability, structural health monitoring and active vibration control and their application to real world problems.

 

Professor Brownjohn and Dr Racic are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position from 12^th January 2012. The post is supported by a new EPSRC grant EP/I029567/1 ‘Synchronisation in dynamic loading due to multiple pedestrians and multiple occupants of vibration-sensitive structures’ and is for a term of 42 months.

With technician support in the early stages, the successful applicant will manage experimental activities for wireless and CCTV (video imaging) motion tracking of individuals, groups and crowds walking, jumping and bouncing. In the later stages of the project, he/she will help develop and verify models of the synchronization effect between multiple people under a wide range of conditions, such as different crowd densities and audio, visual and tactile stimuli. These synchronisation models will be further expanded into a new generation of models describing group and crowd dynamic loading which can be used reliably in design of civil engineering structures such as footbridges, stadia and floors.

The research requires liaison with project collaborators in the Department of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, and at the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth.

The applicant must, by the start of employment, ideally hold a First Class degree in a relevant discipline such as Engineering or Computer Science.

Please apply in writing directly to Dr Vito Racic at the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, including your CV.

For more information on the Vibration Engineering Section, please visit www.vibration.shef.ac.uk, or for specific questions, please contact Dr Racic at v.racic@sheffield.ac.uk.

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