Charles Augarde 

Research Interests | Positions Available |  Publications | Research Projects | Ph.D. Students | Journals | Conferences | Presentations | Teaching | Durham colleagues | People |  Information | Organisations | Miscellaneous | Other Links | 
last update of this page was 05/10/2009

Contact

School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Durham University
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE, UK
T: 0191 334 2504:      F: 0191 334 2407:     M: 07999 882 495
charles  dot  augarde  at   dur.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Computational solid mechanics and geomechanics
• Iterative solvers for linear systems arising from finite element and meshless analysis
• Mechanics of earthen construction materials, particularly rammed earth
  
• Unsaturated soil mechanics
  
• Scaled boundary methods
  
• Meshless (or meshfree) methods
• Computational fracture modelling
• High performance computing applied to the above (maybe not rammed earth though)

Positions Available

• PhD opportunities in the Mechanics Research group (which covers computational mechanics and geotechnics) at Durham.
• Funding for PhDs is always difficult to obtain but do not let that stop you from considering it. Application is free. Feel free to approach us with your ideas.

Publications

• A complete list of my publications can be found here. Please email me if you would like a copy of a paper.
• The Mechanics group has a  preprints service available here.
• My entry at ResearcherID
• Latest items:
  
  
• Zhuang, X., Augarde, C.E.  Aspects of the use of orthogonal basis functions in the element free Galerkin method. Accepted by International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, May 30 2009. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/nme.2696. pdf
• Augarde, C.E., Heaney, C.E. 2009. The use of meshless methods in geotechnics in Pietruszczak et al. (Eds), Proc. ComGeo 1, Juan-les-Pins, France, April 29-May 1 2009, IC2E Rhodes, Greece, 311-320. pdf

Research projects

• "Finite deformation geomechanics: developing a meshless scaled boundary method". 2007-10.
  EPSRC funded project on which I am PI and Roger Crouch is CI. Started June 2007. Research Associate is Dr Claire Heaney. Details.
• Earthen Construction and Rammed earth
   ... in collaboration with Chris Gerrard, Dept of Archaeology, Durham University. Details
• "Mechanics of unsaturated soils for engineering" (MUSE) Marie Curie Training network, 2005-8.
  I am the network Training Supervisor. Details.
• EPSRC Maths for Engineers Summer School. 10-16 September 2006.
• "Unsaturated soil geotechnics: linking with China".
  Visit to research groups in five cities in China funded under the EPSRC INTERACT programme, March 2006. Details.
  
• "Parametric studies of tunnelling using the national HPC resources". 2003-6. EPSRC funded.
  ...with Alison Ramage. More details.
  
• "Preconditioners for finite element analysis of soil-structure interaction problems". 2002-5. EPSRC funded.
  ...with Alison Ramage. Details.
  

Ph.D. Students

• Completed
• Claus Wisser (DPhil, Oxford, 2002)
• Dimos Koungelis (2007)
• Paul Jaquin (2008)
  
• Current
• Gareth Bird (Jan 2007- ) jointly with Jon Trevelyan
• Xiaoying Zhuang (Oct 2007 -)
• Will Coombs (July 2008 -) jointly with Roger Crouch
  
• Chris Beckett (Oct 2008 -)
• Jack Barnard (Oct 2009 - )
• Zahur Ullah (Oct 2009 - )

Journals 

• Acta Geotechnica
• Applied Numerical Mathematics*
• ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics
• ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering*
• Computers and Geotechnics*
• Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering*
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering*
• Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences*
• Computers and Structures*
• Computational Mechanics*
  
• Engineering Geology*
• Finite Elements in Analysis and Design*
• Geology*
• Geomechanics and Geoengineering*
• Geotechnique* (I was a member of the Geotechnique Advisory Panel, 2004-6)
• ICE Proceedings: Geotechnical Engineering*, Computational Mechanics * & Structures and Buildings*
• International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics*
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering*
• International Journal of Architectural Heritage*
• International Journal of Computer Mathematics*
• Journal of Complexity*

Conferences

• COMPLAS X, September 2009, Barcelona
• NUMGE 2010, June 2010, Trondheim
• WCCM 2010, Sydney.  I am organising a minisymposium on   "novel discretisation techniques for moving discontinuities and singularities" with Stephane Bordas.
• UNSAT 2010, September 2010, Barcelona
• CST2010, September 2010, Valencia
  

Presentations

• ComGEO 1 conference, Juan-les-Pins, France, 29/4/09-01/05/09. "The use of meshless methods in geotechnics". pps
• Workshop on numerical modelling in geomechanics, Newcastle, 24/4/09. "Future alternatives to finite elements for geotechnical modelling". pps 
• Inaugural meeting of Earth Building UK, Bath University, 16/01/09. "Engineering characterization of earthen construction materials". pps
  

Teaching (current)

• L1 Technology for the Modern World
  
• L1 Structures
• L1 Introduction to mechanics
• L2 Structures
• L3 Structural Analysis
• L3 Stress Analysis
• L3 CAD for Civil Engineers
• L4 Civil Engineering Modelling
  
• Past final year projects I have supervised at Durham.

Durham colleagues

• Roger Crouch
• Andrew Deeks
• Karen Johnson
• Ashraf Osman
• Mohammed Seaid
  
• David Toll 
• Jon Trevelyan

People I work with (past & present & future?)

• Harvey Burd 
• Stephane Bordas
• Domenico Gallipoli
  
• Chris Gerrard
• Stephanie Glendinning
  
• Matthew Hall
• Claire Heaney
  
• Guy Houlsby
• Carol Matthews
• Alison Ramage
• Jim Shiau
• Scott Sloan
• Jochen Staudacher
• Youliang Zhang
  

Information 

• Durham School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (our name changed on August 1st 2009)
  
• ISI Web of Knowledge Service
• iMechanica
• Computational Mechanics Discussion Group (Google)

Organisations

• The Institution of Civil Engineers
• The British Geotechnical Association
• The Northern Geotechnical Group (NGG)
  

Miscellaneous

• Hatfield College (where I am a College Tutor). A list of my current tutees.

Other Links

• St Margaret's Allotment Association, Durham. Plot 67
  
• Manchester City FC.  
  
• The Court Inn, Durham. 
  
• Karen of Kerkstraat