Chunsun Zhang

BE MSCE
Postgraduate Research Student
Centre for Geotechnical Research



School of Civil Engineering, Room 101
Phone: +61 2 9351 2145
Fax: +61 2 9351 3343
Email: c.zhang@usyd.edu.au

Research project - Grain Crushing in large granular flow processes: Finite element analysis

Supervisor: A/Prof Itai Einav
Associate Supervisor: Dr Giang Nguyen

Breakage Mechanics is a continuum mechanics theory for modelling granular materials that enables to predict how grain-size distribution evolves in terms of energy arguments. This PhD will involve the integration of a breakage mechanics model with the Eulerian FE framework to analyze various large flow problems of brittle grains, including surrounding pile penetration, mining crushers, geophysics as well as other problems in food industry, and pharmaceutics.