- Effects of mass and heat transfers on chemical reactions at high pressures and temperatures
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- design of novel multi-phase reactors for cleaner production
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- efficient synthesis of chemical intermediates
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- hazardous waste destruction under supercritical conditions
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- fundamental understanding of catalytic systems of major industrial significance
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- catalytic conversion of natural gas
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- analysis of advanced power generation systems
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- use of biomass and solid wastes as renewable energy
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- novel fluidised bed reactors
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- fluidisation and particle technology
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- advanced coal drying systems
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- process integration and modelling
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- pressure/vacuum-swing adsorption systems
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- fermentation and bioprocess
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- food and dairy process engineering
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- environmental engineering
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- polymers and polymer processing
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- minerals and mineral processing
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- development of pulp and paper technology with minimised environmental impacts
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- properties of wood pulp fibres
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- properties of paper (paper physics)
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- papers for modern information technology such as high-quality colour printing
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- rheology and fluid mechanics of non-Newtonian systems
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- hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry for the recovery of precious metals
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- circulating fluidised bed reactors and their applications in advanced coal combustion systems
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- development of efficient gasification/reforming-based advanced power generation technology from coal with minimised environmental impacts
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- control of chemical processes including batch, semi-batch and continuous chemical processes, profitability and economics of chemical process control
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- corrosion and its prevention
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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
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- steel and timber structures using FRP composites
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- fundamental mechanisms of shrinkage and creep
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- use of industrial wastes such as slag in concrete
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- strength assessment and lifetime performance of ageing concrete and steel bridges steel tubular structures
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- thin-walled structures such as box-girders
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- stiffened plates and pipe-bends
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- structural steel connections
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- crashworthiness of structures
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- performance of structures subject to fire
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- fatigue and large deformation cyclic loading
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- timber structural members and systems
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Structural Geoengineering
- Drilled foundations in weak rock and soils
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- soil filtration and drainage
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- the behaviour of rock joints and rock masses
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- stabilisation of soils and crushed rocks
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- unsaturated soil and rock behaviour
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- pavement and railway geotechnics
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Environmental Geoengineering
- geotechnical properties of waste materials
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- performance of natural innovative cover and systems and hybrid containment barriers for waste disposal
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- geosynthetics applications to waste containment
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- geosynthetics applications for soil reinforcement
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- contaminant transport and multiphase flow
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- gas outburst and groundwater inundation
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Water resources/ Environmental Engineering
- water sensitive urban design
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- integrated urban water management
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- physical modelling of rivers and water infrastructure
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- specialised hydrologic and hydraulic engineering studies
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- the role of stream condition assessment in environmental management
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- rain water tanks as a water resource in urban areas
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- wetlands for storm water treatment
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- characterising the hydraulic environment of streams
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- design and modelling of fishways
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- optimising water allocation
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- improving flood estimation methods
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Transport and Traffic Engineering
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- transport and traffic planning and management
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- public transport planning management
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- transport and location choice modelling
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- intelligent transport systems
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- public transport use and operation
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- urban and non-urban freight
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- transport systems modelling
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Timber Engineering
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- development of engineered timber products and quality assurance
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- timber bridge load rating and repair with an emphasis on fibre reinforced plastic techniques
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- timber portal frame behaviour
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- epoxy grouted bars used in structural timber joints
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- mechano-sorptive response of timber
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- structural applications of particleboard
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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
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- antennas and wave propagation
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- internetworking and multimedia communications
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- video compression and archiving
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- optical fiber communications
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- operations research applications to telecommunications
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- high performance computing for simulating complex systems
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- discrete-event simulation of telecommunication networks
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- semiconductor device modelling
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- computer software engineering
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- robot navigation and sensing
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- high-performance computing
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- monitoring and diagnostics of power plant
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- renewable energy and distributed generation
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- electric motors and drive systems
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- electric and hybrid vehicle propulsion systems
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- power system modelling and identification
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- power quality improvement
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- power system reliability robust control
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- non-invasive techniques for monitoring substance in human body
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- auditory and vestibular systems
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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
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- polymer alloys and blends
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- solvent and gas permeability in polymers
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- liquid crystalline and hyperbranched polymers
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- conducting polymers and blends
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- sol-gel, polymer-ceramic nanocomposites
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- corrosion and corrosion protection
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- damage and remanent life in engineering materials
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- electrical and magnetic properties of alloys
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- ultra-high-strength aluminium alloys
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- thermo-mechanical processing of steels
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- morphology and deformation modelling and simulation
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- wear, erosion and lifetime assessment of metals and ceramics
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- solidification processing
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- ceramic powder processing
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- mechanical properties of ceramics
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- properties of surface coatings and films
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- analytical and high resolution electron microscopy
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- solid electrolyte materials
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- and atom probe field ion microscopy
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Contact: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tel: +61 3 9905 3545
Email: research.mecheng@eng.monash.edu.au
URL: http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/mech/
- robotics and mechatronics
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- kinematics and mechanisms
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- manufacturing and technology management
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- direct simulation of turbulence
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- fluid-structure interaction
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- computer modelling of industrial flows
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- flows in bioreactors and physiological flows
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- including energy conversion
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- computer modelling of heat transfer processes
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- combustion and fuel technologies
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- aerospace and aeronautical engineering
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- solid and structural mechanics
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- computer modelling of structures
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- experimental structural mechanics
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- marine and estuary engineering
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- hydrodynamics and water quality in bays and estuaries
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- environmental fluid dynamics
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- fluid-structural dynamics of marine structures and scalar mixing
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- wind effects on building and structures
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- high Reynolds number flows around structures
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- including agile manufacturing
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