In 2010 COFS were awarded a grant to fund a Chair and Research Centre of Excellence by The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust.

Over the next five years we will model the geotechnical behaviour of offshore foundations and predict the risk of their failure.

Outputs

The output of the research programme is in three primary fields

• deep water engineering
• renewable energy systems
• risk and reliability analysis

Researchers 

• The LRET Chair of Offshore Foundations
  Professor Mark Cassidy
  
  
• The LRET Assistant Professor
  Dr. Scott Draper
  
  
• The LRET Associate Professor
  Dr. Britta Bienen
  
  
• The LRET Lecturer
  Dr. Xiaowei Feng
  
  

• The LRET Top-Up Scholarship Holders
  Lucile Queau
  Xiaojun Li
  JiaJie Ma
  Henning Mohr
  Ludger Rausch
  Stefanus Safinus

Postgraduate Opportunities

The LRET offers a $15,000 (2011 rate) Top Up scholarship for students successful in receiving a UWA scholarship for a Masters or PhD.  Please visit our postgraduate student information page for more information.

LRET 2011 Workshop

In an initiative organised by the Lloyd's Register Educational Trust, leading academic researchers from around the world gathered in London on the 6th - 7th September 2011, to identify future research challenges in areas of global importance.

The workshop was hosted by University College London, one of The LRET Research Centres of Excellence in consortium with Harbin Engineering University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is the 3rd in a series which brings together representatives from some 25 LRET research centres. 

Research themes under discussion were Deep Water Challenges, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy and Human Factors. Industry experts added to the impressive pool of academics who led the discussions, with significant contributions from all workshop delegates.

The Chairs of each of the four sessions are reporting back to The LRET with recommendations of up to 6 topics which delegates identified as priorities for future research funding.

*The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust (The LRET) is an independent charity working to achieve advances in transportation, science, engineering and technology education, training and research worldwide for the benefit of all