Staff profile
Overview
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| Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Postgraduate student in the Department of Engineering | +44 (0) 191 33 42487 |
Biography
Rector Mukwiri is a postgraduate researcher within the Mechanics Research Group in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (ECS). Rector graduated from Durham University with a Masters degree in Civil Engineering in July 2014. In August 2014 he was sponsored by Engineers Without Borders UK to spend three months in Kenya working with Kounkuey Design Initiative as a structural Engineer. He returned to the UK to begin his School of ECS PhD scholarship from 1st January 2015. Rector's area of research focuses on dissipation-driven constitutive models for soils.
Research groups
- Sustainable Infrastructure
Publications
Conference Paper
- Mukwiri, R.A., Ghaffari Motlagh, Y., Coombs, W.M. & Augarde, C.E. (2017), Energy dissipation in granular materials in triaxial tests, in Faramarzi, A. & Dirar, S. eds, 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics. Birmingham, UK, University of Birmingham, 191-194.
- Mukwiri, R.A., Ghaffari Motlagh, Y., Coombs, W.M. & Augarde, C.E. (2016), Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression, ACME - UK 2016 24th Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering. Cardiff, UK, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 231-234.