Research opportunities

Student research opportunities

The Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience (CBIR) seeks students interested in addressing the following main focus areas:

  • use of smart materials for control of civil engineering structures
  • damage detection in civil engineering structures using modal data and artificial neural Networks
  • earthquake engineering
  • new technologies to facilitate the cost-effective management of highway bridge assets
  • innovative engineered timber buildings
  • investigation of appropriate technologies to improve seismic resistance of mudbrick housing
  • development of new-generation autoclaved fibre-cement building materials using waste fired clay products
  • ‘Green Cement’: the development of eco-friendly, novel construction material.

Students will undertake collaborative research and development projects with industry and forming partnerships with leading Australian and international research organisations for maximum impact.

Further information

On applying to study at UTS as a postgraduate research student:

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.