A fully funded PhD studentship is available at Cardiff University within the College of Physical Sciences in collaboration with Computational Mechanics and Computer Sciences and with the opportunity to work jointly with Inria, France.
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CONTACT stephane DOT bordas AT GMAIL dot COM & Sam Evans <EvansSL6 AT cardiff.ac.uk>
OBJECTIVES
Year 1: How effective is our surgical simulator to help surgeons train in needle insertion and cutting of the skin?
Objectives:
1-1. develop a multi-layer model of the skin
1-2. simulate needle insertion and cutting
1-3. validate with phantoms produced by MBI
1-4. trials with surgeons to assess usefulness
Year 2: Can a two-scale model of the skin be developed for interactive cutting simulation?
Objectives:
2-1. develop a two-scale model of the skin
2-2. develop reduced order modelling techniques (only possible through HPC Wales ~ 1 billion degrees of freedom)
2-3. coupled reduced order modelling with cutting
Year 3: How effective is the two-scale surgical simulator to train surgeons in needle insertion? How can a two-scale model help devise new polymers for "false skin" to be used in phantoms.
Objectives:
3-1. trials with surgeons to assess role of the two-scale model on the response of the virtual skin
3-2. inform the development of new polymers based on the two-scale models
SUPERVISING TEAM
Profs. Stéphane Bordas, Sam Evans, Nick Avis
Drs. Kawashita, Kerfriden, Beex
The successful candidate will join a team of over 20 researchers in computational mechanics and computer science and will work closely with a Welsh company manufacturing artificial skin for surgical training.
P. Kerfriden, K. M. Schmidt, T. Rabczuk, and S. P. A. Bordas. Statistical extraction of process zones and representative subspaces
in fracture of random composites. International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 11(3):253–287, 2013.
X. Zhao, R. Duddu, S.P.A. Bordas, and J. Qu. Effects of elastic strain energy and interfacial stress on the equilibrium morphology
of misfit particles in heterogeneous solids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 61(6):1433–1445, 2013.
P. Kerfriden, J.C. Passieux, and S.P.A. Bordas. Local/global model order reduction strategy for the simulation of quasi-brittle fracture. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 89(2):154–179, 2012. in press http://onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nme.3234/full.
M. Moumnassi, S. Belouettar, É. Béchet, S.P.A. Bordas, D. Quoirin, and M. Potier-Ferry. Finite element analysis on implicitly defined domains: An accurate representation based on arbitrary parametric surfaces. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 200:774–796, jan 2011.
S.P.A. Bordas, S. Natarajan, P. Kerfriden, C.E. Augarde, D.R. Mahapatra, T. Rabczuk, and S.D. Pont. On the performance of strain smoothing for quadratic and enriched finite element approximations (XFEM/GFEM/PUFEM) . International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 86(4-5):637–666, 2011.
£63,420 funding is available over 3 years.