Advanced Computational Modelling
Multipurpose Gas Laboratory
The Royal Academy of Engineering event
“Ecocode- A Seren Resource”
COMPASS - The GRC's Novel Geoenvironmental Software Model
LATEST NEWS
GRC would like to welcome new research staff Dr. Vasilis Sarhosis, Dr Sivachidambaram Sadasivam and Dr Shakil Masum.
They have recently joined the SEREN project.
6 Research posts and 2 PhD studentships
Applications are invited for six research posts (two Research Associates / four Research Assistants) and two PhD studentships at the Geoenvironmental Research Centre (GRC), Cardiff
University to work on Advanced Computational Modelling of Geoenergy Problems. Applications in the sequestration of …
A newly designed and structured GRC website has been launched. Latest news and featured items are presented in dynamic style. Interactive features will be available soon.
Welsh Government Deputy Minister for European Programmes, Alun Davies, has announced a £1M EU boost for a project to further develop groundbreaking geo-energy technologies and pioneer research in a bid to cut fuel costs and greenhouse emissions.
Led by the University’s Geoenvironmental …
The Geoenvironmental Research Centre’s achievements in engineering were on show at the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Summer Soiree (Thursday 24 May).
The Royal Academy of Engineering event hosted by Cardiff University highlighted the crucial role of engineers in developing solutions to a …
Welcome to the GRC website
The Geoenvironmental Research Centre carries out research on a broad front of problems, with its interest ranging from fundamental studies of soil behaviour, through project based applications to commercial exploitation and development.
Problems of contaminated land, landfill engineering, land reclamation, slope stability, waste disposal and heat losses from buried objects are studied, together with the influence of environmental conditions on the performance of underground distribution systems.
Students pursuing largely computer based projects are well catered for. Research dedicated UNIX mainframes are available and eight distributed UNIX workstations provide powerful computer platforms for CPU intensive computational analysis, computer aided design, (CAD), and graphics software. High performance computing facilities also exist via two new multi-processor SUN E6500 systems.
For prospective students interested in experimentally based research, a range of first class, comprehensive testing facilities are available. The full range of traditional experimental facilities covering consolidation and shear strength testing of soils, for example, is also available. These are supplemented by high quality computer controlled triaxial testing equipment and graviometric and volumetric pressure plate extractor equipment for use in unsaturated soil characterisation.
The Research Centre has excellent experimental facilities in the area of Geoenvironmental Engineering. These included, for example, leaching columns and triaxial permeameters which are used to investigate the effect of contaminated pore fluids on soil hydraulic properties; together with analytical facilities for solids, liquids and gases, such as X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, electron microscopy, gas chromatography, ion chromatography and atomic absorption spectrometry.
Opportunities at the GRC
PhD, MPhil and MSc opportunities come up from time to time and are detailed in the opportunities section of the site, however we are always looking for good research staff, visitors and students and actively invite speculative applications and proposals.