PhD project - funding secured

This is an MCC of NSW thing, but it isn't limited to NSW students.

MOTORCYCLE COUNCIL OF NSW

Please pass around.

An opportunity for a rider.

I would like to talk to any science graduate with honors 2 or better
who is thinking of doing a PhD.

Engineering preferred, not mandatory, but strong maths.

Topic: Crash Barriers, including Wire Rope, W-Beam, Concrete profiles.

Funding: Secured.

Email your CV.

Call me.

Guy Stanford
Chairman
Motorcycle Council of NSW
0417 661 827

 

Forwarded this to someone at MUARC.

 

I rather suspect the motivation behind this project is the need for a
counterpoint to the "Reduce all speed limits to zero and everyone
would be perfectly safe" recommendations which MUARC keep coming up
with in all the road safety research they get commissioned to do...

 

Not necessarily. Remember this old chestnut (has been talked about
here already).
Google "motorcycle impacts into roadside barriers" yields:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-01/esv/esv19/05-0095-O.pdf

There is a table on P10 showing WRB is the most hazardous in every
case and up to 48.79 times more dangerous than concrete blocks. That
was done by MUARC.

Before you reply, may I suggest that if we are going to go into a
really long OT thread on wire rope, that that is started in an
entirely different thread.