Location: | Cambridge |
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Salary: | £29,605 to £44,263 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 6th June 2024 |
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Closes: | 10th July 2024 |
Job Ref: | NM41947 |
Department/Location: Department of Engineering, West Cambridge, Cambs, UK
A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on Structural Damage Assessment & Data Analysis (Blast Loading)
The post holder will be located in the Civil Engineering Building, West Cambridge, UK.
The 2020 Beirut explosion highlighted the need for a unified approach to blast load prediction and structural damage assessment. Our current inability to accurately predict blast loading in such environments limits advancements in structural damage predictions in real settings. Our aim is to raise the scientific benchmark of these linked but currently disconnected disciplines, and in doing to generate tools and frameworks to strengthen links along the entire event chain: detonation, to blast propagation, to loading development, to structural damage.
Under the EPSRC-funded "MicroBlast" project, colleagues at Sheffield University will perform scaled experiments to replicate the 2020 Beirut explosion, generating detailed, data-rich loading maps to supplement connected studies into structural damage assessment.
This role will:
The skills, qualifications and experience required:
Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD. Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will be appointed at Research Assistant level, which will be amended to Research Associate once the PhD has been awarded.
Salary Ranges:
Research Assistant: £29,605 - £33,966; Research Associate: £36,024 - £44,263
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 18 months in the first instance.
To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click on the apply button above.
Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter, together with a research publication list (highlighting your three best/most relevant publications) in the Upload section of the online application. Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date.
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran (ss683@cam.ac.uk) for queries of a technical nature related to the role; for questions related to the application process, please contact Jemma Cosbey (div-d@eng.cam.ac.uk)
Please quote reference NM41947 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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