Industrial PhD position: Stability Assessment of In Situ Railway Embankments

at  Banedanmark

DESCRIPTION

The objective of this project is to develop new procedures that would optimize assessment of existing railway embankments and design of new ones, reducing construction and maintenance costs thereby advancing the competitiveness of rail as a transportation means. This effort will be directed towards the quantification and identification of uncertainties that are introduced in current design practices, while developing efficient and simple design analysis tools for geotechnical stability assessment. The implementation and validation of a probabilistic approach in the design of embankments, is expected to improve sustainability indicators in railways. The PhD candidate will use the research infrastructure of Banedenmark and DTU Sustain and receive support from industry experts. Academic supervision will be given by Associate Professors Varvara Zania, Irene Rocchi and Yuepeng Dong from DTU’s Section for Geotechnics and Geology.
Main place of work: Banedenmark, Carsten Niebuhrs Gade 43 1577 København V.
Secondary place of work: DTU Sustain Section for Geotechnics and Geology, DTU Lyngby Campus Building 119.
Candidate profile: We are looking for a curious, creative, friendly, ambitious, and hard-working candidate with some experience in geotechnical engineering and numerical modelling and/or slope stability and probabilistic methods. The candidate must be self-driven, capable of working independently and in teams, and possess excellent communication skills in English.
Required qualifications: The candidate must hold an MSc degree in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
Preferred qualifications: (i) background in working with finite element modelling for geotechnical problems; (ii) background in slope stability assessment; (iii) experience within railway engineering; (iv) pedagogical skills; and (v) previous industry/work experience.
Enrolment approval: the candidate will be subjected to academic approval by DTU; please refer to DTU’s rules for the PhD education.

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