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EIE:Our postgraduate students benefit from working in a first class, well-equipped research environment. We attract students from around the world and have enjoyed funding from grant-awarding bodies in the UK and EU, often in partnership with industry. Our staff enjoy an international reputation, confirmed by our results in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise . Whether you are studying an MSc, MPhil or PhD, you will have the opportunity of working in leading areas of civil and structural engineering. We invite prospective MSc, MPhil and PhD students and their sponsors to visit us and see some of the latest facilities for teaching and research in the area of environmental and infrastructure engineering. Further details of post-graduate opportunities and application procedures, both taught and by thesis, are available at this link .

Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering at Bradford supports a vibrant, supportive and productive postgraduate community. The size of our research group ensures that the number of postgraduate research students is large enough to ensure a lively, interesting and diverse postgraduate community where you will find other students working on related fields. We consider postgraduates integral to maintaining our healthy research culture. Activities include a regular research seminar series that attracts established national and international researchers. Postgraduates are also central to the department's weekly, internal staff and postgraduate seminar series.

The three-year PhD is the established route into academic and research careers, although it is also increasingly seen as an exceptional qualification for individuals pursuing other professional positions. All of our staff are active researchers and we are pleased to welcome suggestions of your own. We encourage you to contact staff directly to discuss potential ideas and we can assist in the development of a topic. More details on staff research interests and recent and ongoing research projects can be found on the staff web pages .

The laboratory facilities are:

Hydraulics Laboratory
Acoustics Laboratory
Soil Mechanics Laboratory
Structures Laboratory

Hydraulics Laboratory

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It houses a number of flumes and hydraulic rigs for the study of environmental fluid mechanics and urban water drainage. In recent years, the lab has attracted considerable funding from EPSRC and from other funding bodies, including the EU, DTI and Yorkshire Water. It has strong links with industry and is actively involved in consultancy work, often in the construction of scaled, physical models of hydraulic structures. It is also currently supported by an EPSRC Platform Grant awarded to the (External) Pennine Water Group . This group specialises in ‘ (External) Developing Knowledge and Tools for Sustainable Urban Water Services in the 21st Century ’ (more information can be found here ).

The Hydraulic Laboratory members specialise in four main subject areas, which cover activities both in environmental fluid mechanics and urban water drainage:

Development of new sensor technology
Turbulence in shallow flows
Sediment transport and environmental pollution
Commercial consultancy

It houses the following facilities:

Flexible space for construction of physical models with pump capacities of up to 500 l/s
0.5 m wide, 20 m long, tilting hydraulic flume
2 m wide, 15 m long hydraulic flume (coming soon)
0.3 m wide, 6 m long, recirculating, tilting hydraulic flume
0.62 m diameter, 20 m long concrete pipe
150 mm diameter, 17 m long clay pipe
Three 0.1 m wide, 6 m long recirculating, tilting hydraulic flumes
25m long underfloor water tank
Wind tunnel
3-D Dantec PIV system, able to operate at up 50 Hz and in both horizontal and vertical planes
High-speed CCD camera for grain tracking and Laser Induced Fluorescence, able to operate at up to 90 Hz. This can be synchronised with the PIV system
Surface topography laser scanning system
Digital Image Correlation for the 3D measurement of solid deformation
Nortek Vectrino’s (downward- and side-looking)
Piston-type wave generator and gauges
Range of acoustic equipment

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Acoustics Laboratory

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The main areas of research are in the theoretical and experimental investigation of sound absorbing materials and sound propagation in lined channels. Research is also conducted on outdoor sound propagation and the design of environmental noise abatement methods. More information can be found here .

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Soil Mechanics Laboratory

SoilMechanics

The key areas of research are:

Contaminant transport consolidation of soft soils
Soil reinforcement
Soil structure interaction.
Treatment of wastewater using soil aquifers
Interaction effects between surface dynamic loads and buried structure

Notable facilities are:

Triaxial cells for testing unsaturated soils
Instrumented 2D and 3D tanks for testing the migration of contaminants in unsaturated and saturated soils

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Structures Laboratory

StructuresLab

Experimental research is carried out in the following areas:

Behaviour of reinforced concrete and masonry structures
Development of new structural materials and techniques suitable for retrofit to extend the life of concrete and masonry structures
Strong floor with substantial equipment for full scale testing of structural elements
Dynamic behaviours of flexible structures
Strengthening interventions on masonry buildings in seismic areas
Suitability of fibre reinforced polymer bars as internal reinforcement for concrete structures
A new standard test for measuring impact resistance of concrete, the use of recycled aggregate and cementless mortars
Laboratory calcinations of marls and septaria Role of aggregates in mortar performance
Development of a drying system for dry-silo based mortars which involves the addition of quicklime to the wet sand
Experimental techniques include calcination, compressive and flexural strength of pastes and mortars, setting time, soundness, sorptivity, water vapour permeability, shrinkage and alkali related expansion, nitrogen adsorption, TG/DTG, SEM

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Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering The work of the researchers in the Environment and Infrastructure Research Group covers a range of activities that aim to study the issues associated with the provision of built infrastructure and how this can interact with the environment and society. The research group has two main themes: environment and infrastructure, which are strongly linked by the issues surrounding sustainability in the natural and built environment. The group recognises the importance of sustainability for infrastructure systems and also the requirement to provide technologies to address the needs of such systems to adapt to climate change and reduce their impact on the environment.

The Environment Theme focuses on studying the science behind the processes, feedbacks and interactions of current and emerging environmental impacts, and the ways in which to mitigate their impact. Currently the impact of environmental noise, flooding, sediment transport, water transported pollutants, and extreme waves are being investigated. This includes their impact in both the natural and built environment, ranging from rivers, estuaries and coasts to sewers and water distribution pipes. Much of this work revolves around the use of sophisticated laboratory techniques, strongly coupled with the development of new modelling and sensor technologies to allow the development of new mitigation technologies.

Researchers within the Infrastructure Theme are working on the development of new, low energy construction materials that have higher levels of sustainability. Others are developing new structural analysis and construction methods in order to gain an improved understanding of the behaviour of buildings and structures, in order to develop better rehabilitation strategies. An emerging area of work in the group is research into various aspects of the behaviour of steel and composite structures.

Group members have collaborated with researchers from Europe, North America and Japan, evidenced by input to EU projects, joint publications in journals, and funded visits by post doctoral researchers. Collaborative work with international collaborators has been supported by funding from EPSRC, EU, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and industrial sources. Staff have collaborated with researchers from National University of Singapore, Kyoto University, TU Delft, WL Delft, IIT Mumbai, IIT Kharagpur, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée (Paris), Humboldt State University, Laboratoire Central Ponts et Chaussée (Nantes), University of the Applied Arts, Vienna, Louisiana State University, Mokpo National University, South Korea, University of Gent, University of Padua, Technical University of Braunschweig, University of Hong Kong and North China Electric Power University, Institut National de Recherche Scientific et Technique Tunisia, Islamic University in Gaza, Tanta, Mansour Universities in Egypt, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Polytechnic University, Hong Kong and Tsinghua University, China & University of Western Sydney, Australia

EDT Outreach team travel to Brighton to demonstrate biodiesel production

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