PhD Studentships
Are you thinking of doing a PhD starting in 2007?
Are you likely to obtain First Class Honours in November this year?
Are you an Australian Citizen or permanent resident or New
If the answer is
yes to these questions then why not consider doing a PhD at COFS?
PhD Studentships
valued at $26,616 (tax free) per annum are available. There are no
tuition fees or HECS payments for PhD students who are Australian citizens or
permanent residents. To be eligible, applicants MUST apply for, and be
granted, an Australian Postrgraduate Awards (APA) (applications
for 2007 open in July 2007), which are currently valued at $19,616 per
annum. This will be supplemented by a "top-up" scholarship of
$7,000 per annum from COFS. Both these scholarships are tax free.
If you are not
Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or
COFS will
supplement these scholarships with additional amount of $7,000 ‘top-up’
per annum.
How to apply
Apply
for an APA before the closing date of 31st October 2005 (and achieve 1st
class honours degree). See Inga in the COFS office, or http://www.research.uwa.edu.au/schols/grad/apa.html
for details on how to apply. For this application you will need the name
of a provisional supervisor, and a provisional title and outline of your
research topic, so early contact with the potential supervisor is necessary.
Potential Supervisors
Feel
free to contact any of the potential supervisors listed below. Some example
topics are listed, but their research is not limited to what is given here.
- Investigation of spudcan punch-through failure
- Development of
wave-structure-soil interaction models for deepwater applications
- Stability analysis of untrenched offshore pipelines
- Reliability of offshore
infrastructure
·
Offshore soil mechanics - particularly soil mechanics of
calcareous sediments
·
Mine tailings - consolidation and evaporation behaviour;
rehabilitation
·
In situ testing - pressuremeter, piezocone, resistivity cone, seismic cone
·
Centrifuge modelling
·
Behaviour of suction caisson under cyclic loading
·
Pile group under cyclic vertical loading
·
Scale effect in centrifuge modelling
·
Soil characterisation
- Embedded foundations under
transient and sustained loading
- Numerical analysis of the capacity
of suction caissons
- Yield envelopes for shallow
foundations under general loading
- Effect of soil profile on
bearing capacity
- Anchoring systems (drag and
plate anchors, suction caissons)
- In situ testing of soft
sediments, in particular the use of full-flow penetrometers.
- Pipelines and lateral pile
response
- Shallow foundations under
combined vertical and horizontal loading
- Pile performance in different
soil and rock types
- Pile dynamics
- Piled raft foundations