Description

The Sustainable Concrete Structure Laboratory is looking for three new Ph.D. candidates based on the ERC project RESCUE. In this fully-funded position, the Ph.D. candidates will work on using developing new modelling frameworks for predicting the remaining life of reused concrete elements

As the successful candidate, you will contribute to a research project at the intersection of engineering (concrete structures), material science (durability, mechanical behavior), data science (probabilistic modelling, ML, multi-scale, …), and life-cycle analyses.

The aim of these Ph.D. projects is to develop the first predictive modelling for reused concrete-element capacity. The tasks comprise the development of a laboratory campaign of full-scale reused concrete elements, The development of non-destructive testing methods, the development of new data-driven physics-informed models, and the evaluations of life-cycle gains.

This groundbreaking research output will lead to the extension of the service life of concrete infrastructures, leading to a significant reduction of carbon emissions and costs of the construction sector.
 

First PhD topic: mechanical behavior of reused concrete

Second PhD topic: Durability properties of reused concrete

Third PhD topic: data-driven modelling of reused concrete