拉夫堡大学在研究强度（REF2014）方面是英格兰排名前十的大学，并且有资格提交给REF的拉夫堡学术人员中有66％的杰出工作被评为“世界领先”。或“国际一流”，而全国平均水平为43％。<br>在选择拉夫堡进行研究时，您将与该领域的领导者一起工作。您将受益于我们的全面支持和指导，包括量身定制的职业建议，以帮助您在研究和未来职业中取得成功。<br>项目详细信息：<br>了解各种生物材料和组织的机械性能和性能，以及它们对不同负载和环境条件的反应，对于开发新的医疗程序和设备变得越来越重要。与传统的结构材料相比，这
Understanding mechanical properties and performance of various biological materials and tissues and their responses to different loading and environmental conditions is becoming increasingly important for development of new medical procedures and devices. Such materials, in contrast to traditional structural materials, demonstrate complex hierarchical microstructures formed by constituents with rather non-trivial mechanical behaviours. Additionally, they are characterised by a high extent of variability in their microstructure and properties affected by many factors, including age, health state, nutrition, exercise etc. All these features presuppose development of new experimental, analytical and numerical approaches to assess and predict deformation, damage and fracture behaviour of biological materials and their main constituents. The project will be based on a combination of experimental and numerical techniques (to accommodate expertise and skills of a candidate in the best possible way) focused on characterisation and quantification of interaction between microstructure and mechanical properties and performance of biological materials at various length and time scales. Among potential characterisation and testing techniques are nano- and micro-indentation, X-ray micro computed tomography, DMA and microscopy as well as different loading schemes (including creep, relaxation and/or dynamic loading). Numerical analysis will be based on multi-scale schemes employing finite elements, smooth particle hydrodynamics etc. and can include development of special elements, subroutines or codes.