The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Our Research in Materials, Structures and Geotechnics (MSG)

Group Leader: Dr Jiye Chen

Academics: Dr Stephanie Barnett, Dr Ayman Nassif, Dr David Begg, Dr Paul D Watson, Mr Kenneth Awinda, Saprava Bhattacharya, Dr Jay Jayanandana, Dr Dominic Fox and Dr Mohammad Rezania

Researchers: Heman Mamand, Yijian Gao, Michael Tay, Lei Mao, Beatriz Escudero Fernández, Stephen Bundy, Humoud Al-Dahaini

Research activities in MSG group cover three branches, materials, structures and geotechnics. This group is very active in carrying out research on advanced fibre composites in engineering structures; on composite adhesive joints and repairing technologies; on fibre composite panel systems in buildings and fibre composite sandwich panels in bridges, both contributing to the development of a low carbon construction industry; and in the fundamental study into the damage mechanics of fibre composites, and investigation of ultra high performance fibre reinforced concretes for the safety and security of structures.

Fire structural engineering research focuses on establishing calibrated thermo-mechanical numerical simulation procedures to predict behaviour during fires. MSG group is also active in challenging the developments of advanced constructional materials, fibre composite structures and geotechnical stability and testing.

MSG group currently consists of four research teams:

Further details can be seen on each team page.