Civil engineering structure and materials (Doctorate)

Core Courses

-Specialty reinforcement course related to Doctoral training: 40 hours

-Research methodology course: 32 hours

-Introduction to didactics and pedagogy course: 20 hours

-ICT course: 20 hours

-Foreign language skills reinforcement course: 20 hours

-Seminars: 10 seminars

Advanced Topics

The objective of this doctoral training is to prepare the doctoral candidate for scientific research by guiding them to develop the skills implemented during their thesis years and to enhance their value in academic and professional settings, while ensuring the development and expansion of scientific research.

Indeed, nowadays, among the major concerns of scientific research and public authorities is limiting the negative impact of human activities on the environment.

The field of civil engineering is increasingly involved in this through an international dynamic aimed at promoting alternative materials that can be directly incorporated into the construction sector.

Furthermore, all stakeholders in the building and public works sector have gradually become open to the necessity of improving knowledge in the field of new materials and recent techniques in the area of Materials and Structures.

These stakeholders have also become increasingly sensitive to issues related to environmental preservation. They have established the creation of channels and connections that foster partnerships between universities and industry to assist researchers in solving some of their problems.

Several research projects have been developed in this context through the use of various types of alternative materials (mineral admixtures, brick waste, dredging sediment, recycled concrete, Tuff, Marble, etc.) to obtain more ecological and higher-performing materials (self-compacting concrete, high-performance concrete, cellular concrete, etc.).

Thus, at a time when environmental preservation has become a requirement and given the lack of clear regulations adaptable to the use of waste, industrial by-products, and alternative materials, as well as to the valorization of different materials and their behavior in simple or complex structures.

Therefore, this doctoral training aims to meet the expectations of the building and public works industry, on the one hand by highlighting the use of new construction materials with low environmental impact, and on the other hand by contributing to a greater mastery of the tools for dimensioning and studying the behavior of simple or complex structures through the modeling of different results using the design of experiments method. This is to better understand the effect of substituting cementitious materials with the chosen alternative materials, and to derive the mathematical models that govern the rheological and mechanical behavior of these ecological materials