The mission will set up a bodily laboratory and theoretical strategies that may form new analysis on the interface of geomechanics and robotics on the College of Cambridge, launching an built-in program devoted particularly to the examine of Soil-Machine Interplay (SMI). People transfer, manipulate, and work together with terrain on a large scale – for civil building, mobility, agriculture, and mining. In what methods will advances in mechatronics revolutionize the machines utilized in these functions? The mission focuses on exploring the deformations and forces concerned as machine parts come into contact with gentle terrain, focusing totally on deformation with the terrain itself. The studentship supplies appreciable latitude in defining the precise goals of the mission. Inventive people with pursuits in bodily experiments, principle, and/or numerical simulation are inspired to use, regardless of diploma or background. For extra details about the PI and hyperlinks to associated media and publications, please go to www.jimhambleton.com .
Candidates ought to have (or count on to acquire by the beginning date) at the least a very good 2.1 diploma in Engineering or a associated topic.
EPSRC DTP studentships are fully-funded (charges and upkeep) for college students eligible for Residence charges. Full eligibility standards might be discovered by way of the next hyperlink; https://www.postgraduate.examine.cam.ac.uk/finance/charges/what-my-fee-status
To use for this studentship, please ship your CV and a doc with names and phone info for 2 referees to James Hambleton ([email protected] ) no later than 5 April 2024. Purposes could shut early if the place is stuffed earlier than this date.
Please notice that any supply of funding can be conditional on securing a spot as a PhD pupil. Candidates might want to apply individually for admission via the College’s Graduate Admissions utility portal (https://www.graduate.examine.cam.ac.uk/programs/listing/egegpdpeg ). Candidates additionally have to have submitted a full utility via the applying portal no later than 5 April 2024.
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