The position is for 3 years and is aimed at finishing PhDs and new postdocs. See http://www.iccr.org.uk/
Anyone interested is very welcome to contact Dr. Helen Lewis (helen.lewis@pet.hw.ac.uk, phone: +44 131 451 3691) for informal discussions.
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Candidates are sought for an upcoming PhD position (start: Sep 2015) in the field of experimental and numerical investigation of multiscale transport behaviour of concrete subjected to combined calcium leaching and carbonation. Continue reading
A Post-doctoral opportunity and a PhD position are available at Division „Buildings & Structures“ at Federal Institute for Materials Research in Berlin, Germany. Both projects are concerned with the long-term prediction of plastic strains of cyclically loaded pile and bucket foundations for Offshore Wind Energy Converters.
Applications are invited for a 24 months Post Doc contract or for a 3 year contract to work on a PhD thesis. More details in the pdf-files (1 , 2).
A PhD position in Geomechanics is available at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland (4 years funding as part of the UK government NERC CDT funding scheme). The project entitled Bots in Rocks: Intelligent Rock Deformation for Fault Rock Petrophysical Properties is about using sensors to detect actual deformation states in lab deformed rock samples.
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Colorado School of Mines invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in geotechnical and/or civil-construction materials engineering related to underground construction and tunneling. Exceptional candidates may be considered at the Associate Professor level.
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A PhD position is available at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) in collaboration with ANDRA, the French national radioactive waste management agency. Further details about the post and eligibility requirements are given in the attached pdf.
There is a multiple-position tenure-track faculty search in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, see http://ceae.colorado.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-search/ . For those candidates interested in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics, and/or Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, please consider applying.
An internship research position is available at IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex (France). The goal of the internship is the development of the S-FEM (smoothed finite element method) in Code_Aster, the free finite element solver developed by EDF R&D (France) actually used in sedimentary basin hydro-mechanical coupling at IFPEN. The expected duration is 20 to 24 weeks. See the attached flyer for more details.
A research position is availible at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institut in Karlsruhe, Germany. The project deals with the processes at the interface between soil and free water, leading to bed erosion. German language skills are required. Attached please find the job advertisement.
The PhD project – http://www.davidpconnolly.com/Hydraulic_fracturing_Connolly.pdf – is on hydraulic fracturing, combining experimental work and numerical simulations. It will be funded by the NERC CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas).
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