Construction Engineering and Infrastructure
The Construction Engineering and Infrastructure (CEI) group is involved in research that not only underpins our understanding and knowledge in infrastructure design and management, but also provides solutions to current problems that are faced by our industry.
Members of our group are professionally qualified with significant experience in academic and industrial research. Our group is active in a broad range of areas such as:
Design and performance
- structural design optimisation
- analysis and design of pavement structures
- structural and thermal properties of tensile membrane structures
- timber grid shell
- dynamic simulation of building energy performance.
Infrastructure preservation
- concrete durability and preservation
- asphalt preservation
- health monitoring and non-destructive based evaluation
- ground investigation
- utilisation of soft computing in condition data analysis
- back-analysis and performance prediction
- integrated infrastructure asset management
- pavement evaluation
- rehabilitation design.
Innovative material
- modelling of plastics rotomoulding process
- advanced characterization of construction materials and performance prediction
- use of recycled and secondary aggregates.
Adaptation of climate change in infrastructures
- mathematical computer models in hydraulics, hydrology and environment
- flood barrier
- hydraulic and hydrological investigations
- ground water recharge
- green roof
- urban heat island.
