Are you an enthusiastic researcher in reinforced concrete design? Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge as part of an international academic/industry collaboration? Do you want to create more efficient and sustainable building practices?

Applications are invited for a full-time researcher based in the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds. The successful applicant will join the Materials and Structures research group as a member of research staff and will conduct research on an EPRSC-funded project entitled ‘Understanding the cracking behaviour of reinforced concrete elements subjected to the restraint of imposed strains’. The work will be conducted under the supervision of Professor John P Forth and Dr Nick Nikitas, along with Dr Robert Vollum and Professor Bassam Izzudin from Imperial College London.

The primary focus of the project is to provide practising engineers with the ability to correctly design RC elements for the restraint of short and long-term imposed strains.

You will be involved in developing the physical understanding of behaviour through an experimental study, developing NLFEA models which enable the realistic calculation of crack width in walls, developing a design oriented analytical procedure for the design of crack control reinforcement in walls, and further validation of the resulting procedures by comparison with field data from walls.

What we offer in return

And much more! 

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Professor John P Forth, Director of the Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2270

Email: [email protected]