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PhD student (80-100%) - “Meta-Cities”: Integrated urban scale modular wave screening concept in Zürich

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Jobbeschreibung

ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology. It is renowned for its excellent education, its cutting-edge fundamental research and its efforts to put new knowledge and innovations directly into practice.
INSPIRE seeks to appoint 15 highly motivated Ph.D. candidates to a range of positions across Europe. The Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions offer an exciting opportunity to work with leading experts across Europe to develop innovative structure-foundation-soil interface concepts to protect structures from ground-borne hazards via the INSPIRE European Training Network (ETN), funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme.
The scientific aim of INSPIRE is to foster a new generation of highly qualified researchers and engineers, which will create a critical mass kernel, able to implement a holistic and novel soil-foundation-structure concept for the efficient protection of structures from all ground induced hazards, including earthquakes and all other sources of low-frequency noise and vibration excitations.

The INSPIRE network consists of leading academic institutions and companies from 6 different countries (Italy, Greece, France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium). ESR05 in particular is hosted at the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK), Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG), ETH Zurich.

ESR05 will undertake the task of demonstrating the novel, holistic, modular and adaptable soil-foundation-structure paradigm for structure protection from seismic and other low-frequency waves in soils. This paradigm synergizes three different complementary and overlapping functionalities of meta-soils (i.e. earthquake shield, cloak and rod) to accomplish a set of seismic performance objectives for a portfolio of structures and functions of a community, i.e. a city. The purpose is not only to numerically and experimentally validate the approach, but also to quantify the effect of meta-soil design parameters, assess uncertainties and investigate risk-informed meta-city design approaches. A scaling via similitude approach will be used to determine the minimum set of dimensionless parameters, characterizing the dynamics of the city-meta-soil system. Geotechnical centrifuge experimental techniques, ideal for testing physical scale models of systems involving the interaction between soil and structure, will be used to demonstrate the meta-soil concept using the centrifuge facility at the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) at ETH Zurich. This doctoral student position is offered for 3 years with the earliest starting date in June 2019. Primary advisor is Prof. B. Stojadinovic, co-advisor is Prof. I. Anastasopoulos, at ETH Zurich.
We look forward to receiving your online application including: a clear designation INSPIRE ESR05 you are applying for, a letter of motivation, a CV, electronic copies of your academic diplomas and certificates, and contact details for at least 2 referees. The applications will be reviewed starting March 15, 2019 with the intent to conclude the search by the end of April 2019. Please note that we exclusively accept applications submitted through our online application portal. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered.

Veröffentlicht am

29-02-2024

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Status
Inaktiv
Standort
Zürich
Tätigkeitsbereich
Baugewerbe, Pädagogik / Nachhilfe
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