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Research areas

Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Material Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Chemical engineering

Contact: Ms Wren Schoppe
Telephone: +61 3 9905 3555
Email: Wren.Schoppe@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/chemeng/

  • Effects of mass and heat transfers on chemical reactions at high pressures and temperatures
  • design of novel multi-phase reactors for cleaner production
  • efficient synthesis of chemical intermediates
  • hazardous waste destruction under supercritical conditions
  • fundamental understanding of catalytic systems of major industrial significance
  • catalytic conversion of natural gas
  • analysis of advanced power generation systems
  • process economics
  • use of biomass and solid wastes as renewable energy
  • novel fluidised bed reactors
  • fluidisation and particle technology
  • advanced coal drying systems
  • process integration and modelling
  • life cycle analysis
  • heat and mass transfer
  • separation processes
  • pressure/vacuum-swing adsorption systems
  • membrane technology
  • distillation
  • biochemical engineering
  • fermentation and bioprocess
  • food and dairy process engineering
  • environmental engineering
  • polymers and polymer processing
  • minerals and mineral processing
  • food rheology
  • development of pulp and paper technology with minimised environmental impacts
  • pulping and bleaching
  • properties of wood pulp fibres
  • properties of paper (paper physics)
  • papers for modern information technology such as high-quality colour printing
  • rheology and fluid mechanics of non-Newtonian systems
  • hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry for the recovery of precious metals
  • circulating fluidised bed reactors and their applications in advanced coal combustion systems
  • development of efficient gasification/reforming-based advanced power generation technology from coal with minimised environmental impacts
  • control of chemical processes including batch, semi-batch and continuous chemical processes, profitability and economics of chemical process control
  • corrosion and its prevention

 

 

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Civil engineering

Contact: Mrs. Dominique Thomson
Telephone: +61 3 9905 4986
Email: Dominique.Thomson@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://civil.eng.monash.edu.au/

Structural Engineering

  • Retrofitting of concrete
  • steel and timber structures using FRP composites
  • concrete technology
  • fundamental mechanisms of shrinkage and creep
  • use of industrial wastes such as slag in concrete
  • strength assessment and lifetime performance of ageing concrete and steel bridges steel tubular structures
  • thin-walled structures such as box-girders
  • stiffened plates and pipe-bends
  • structural steel connections
  • crashworthiness of structures
  • performance of structures subject to fire
  • fatigue and large deformation cyclic loading
  • timber structural members and systems

 

 

Structural Geoengineering

  • Drilled foundations in weak rock and soils
  •  soil filtration and drainage
  •  the behaviour of rock joints and rock masses
  • rock dynamics
  •  tunnelling in soft rocks
  •  stabilisation of soils and crushed rocks
  • ground improvement
  •  unsaturated soil and rock behaviour
  • pavement and railway geotechnics

Environmental Geoengineering

  • geotechnical properties of waste materials
  • performance of natural innovative cover and systems and hybrid containment barriers for waste disposal
  • soil remediation
  • geosynthetics applications to waste containment
  • geosynthetics applications for soil reinforcement
  • filtration and drainage
  • contaminant transport and multiphase flow
  • gas outburst and groundwater inundation
  • site characterisation

Water resources/ Environmental Engineering

  • water sensitive urban design
  • integrated urban water management
  • flood hydrology
  • physical modelling of rivers and water infrastructure
  • specialised hydrologic and hydraulic engineering studies
  • aquatic ecology
  • water quality
  • river rehabilitation
  • the role of stream condition assessment in environmental management
  • rain water tanks as a water resource in urban areas
  • wetlands for storm water treatment
  • characterising the hydraulic environment of streams
  • design and modelling of fishways
  • optimising water allocation
  • improving flood estimation methods

Transport and Traffic Engineering

  • travel demand
  • transport operations
  • transport and traffic planning and management
  •  public transport planning management
  • transport and location choice modelling
  • transport management
  •  intelligent transport systems
  • public transport use and operation
  • traffic management
  • traffic flow
  • parking
  • urban and non-urban freight
  •  transport systems modelling

 

 

Timber Engineering

  • timber engineering
  •  life-time integrity
  • development of engineered timber products and quality assurance
  • timber bridge load rating and repair with an emphasis on fibre reinforced plastic techniques
  •  timber portal frame behaviour
  • epoxy grouted bars used in structural timber joints
  • mechano-sorptive response of timber
  • timber floor systems
  • timber composites
  •  structural applications of particleboard
  • wood adhesive bonding

 

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Electrical and Computer System Engineering

Contact: Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Phone: +61 3 9905 3486
Email: ecse.enquiries@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/

  • circuit theory and signal processing
  • antennas and wave propagation
  • internetworking and multimedia communications
  • ionospheric propagation
  •  control systems
  •  next generation internet
  • video compression and archiving
  • optical fiber communications
  • optical computing
  • quantum computing
  • operations research applications to telecommunications
  • high performance computing for simulating complex systems
  • discrete-event simulation of telecommunication networks
  • cogeneration
  • electronic design
  • semiconductor device modelling
  • computer software engineering
  • artificial intelligence
  • computer vision
  • ultrasonic sensing
  • robot sensor fusion
  • robot navigation and sensing
  • tactile sensing
  • autonomous aircraft
  •  high-performance computing
  •  mobile computing
  • power electronics
  • high-voltage engineering
  • monitoring and diagnostics of power plant
  • renewable energy and distributed generation
  • electric motors and drive systems
  • electric and hybrid vehicle propulsion systems
  • power system modelling and identification
  •  power system dynamics
  • power quality improvement
  • power system reliability robust control
  • muscle physiology
  • muscle injury prevention
  • biomedical engineering
  • non-invasive techniques for monitoring substance in human body
  • auditory and vestibular systems
  • and prostheses.

 

Materials Engineering

Contact: Department of Material Engineering
Tel: +61 3 9905 4941
Email: mateng.enquiries@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/materials/

  • properties of engineering plastics, rubbers and adhesives
  • polymer alloys and blends
  •  polymer viscoelasticity
  • solvent and gas permeability in polymers
  •  ageing of polymers
  •  thermosets
  • liquid crystalline and hyperbranched polymers
  • conducting polymers and blends
  • polymer composites
  • elastomers
  • sol-gel, polymer-ceramic nanocomposites
  • corrosion and corrosion protection
  • damage and remanent life in engineering materials
  • electrical and magnetic properties of alloys
  • ultra-high-strength aluminium alloys
  • cast light alloys
  • light alloy design
  •  thermo-mechanical processing of steels
  • metals and metal forming
  • morphology and deformation modelling and simulation
  • stress analysis
  • wear, erosion and lifetime assessment of metals and ceramics
  • metal-matrix composites
  • solidification processing
  • biomaterials
  • refractories
  •  structural ceramics
  • ceramic processing
  • ceramic powder processing
  • mechanical properties of ceramics
  •  thermal sprayed coatings
  • properties of surface coatings and films
  • analytical and high resolution electron microscopy
  • solid electrolyte materials
  • fuel cell materials
  • nanotube science
  • and atom probe field ion microscopy
  • corrosion of materials

 

  • tissue engineering
  • nanotechnology

 

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Contact: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Tel: +61 3 9905 3545
Email: research.mecheng@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/mech/

  • robotics and mechatronics
  • kinematics and mechanisms
  •  manufacturing and technology management
  • fluid mechanics
  • direct simulation of turbulence
  • aeroacoustics
  • free surface flows
  • flow stability
  • fluid-structure interaction
  • computer modelling of industrial flows
  • flow transition
  • swirling flows
  • flows in bioreactors and physiological flows
  • heat transfer and energy
  • including energy conversion
  • computer modelling of heat transfer processes
  • combustion and fuel technologies
  • aerospace and aeronautical engineering
  • solid and structural mechanics
  • composite structures
  • smart materials
  • computer modelling of structures
  • experimental structural mechanics
  •  bonded structures
  • repair technology
  • ageing structures
  • marine and estuary engineering
  • hydrodynamics and water quality in bays and estuaries
  • environmental fluid dynamics
  • fluid-structural dynamics of marine structures and scalar mixing
  • wind engineering
  • wind effects on building and structures
  • high Reynolds number flows around structures
  • control and systems
  •  machine maintenance
  • engineering management
  • including agile manufacturing
  • real-time computing
  • quality systems design
  • business planning
  • project maintenance
  • micromachines
  •  surface friction