One J.W. and I.C.M. Roderick scholarship (Stipend + Tuition if applicable) is available for a suitably qualified student with an Honours degree (or equivalent) in Engineering to undertake full time research leading to a PhD degree in the School of Civil Engineering.

An Australian Research Council funded PhD Scholarship is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia in the area of computational mechanics. The objective of this project is to develop a multi-scale bifurcation-based decohesion model within the framework of the Material Point Method (MPM), one of the meshfree methods, for simulating glass fragmentation under blast loading. The proposed multi-scale decohesion model will be calibrated by combining molecular dynamics and continuum mechanics approaches, and the simulation results will be verified by available experimental data.