Structural & Earthquake Engineering
Concrete structures: seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures.
Earthquake engineering, solid mechanics, structural analysis, structural dynamics.
Masonry and reinforced concrete structures: seismic design and retrofitting
Seismic risk assessment
Seismic isolation and passive energy dissipation devices
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic liquefaction and its effects on geosystems, laboratory testing of soils, development of numerical tools, case-history based approaches for developing knowledge
Seismic assessment of existing concrete and masonry buildings, performance-based seismic design, seismic retrofit, nonlinear structural analysis, shake table testing, earthquake disaster resilience.
Soil dynamics, seismic response and liquefaction, analytical and computer methods, offshore structures, centrifuge modelling.
Computational mechanics
Multi-physics simulation
Fracture mechanics
Reduced Order Models and Machine Learning
Reliability Theory and Applications of Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering
Application of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Reliability Problems
Computational Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering
Applications to Wood Structures.
Probabilistic mechanics, structural reliability and optimization, timber engineering, earthquake engineering, decision making, risk, advanced structural analysis, finite elements, response sensitivity analysis, software development
Beams, plates and shells, finite element analysis, machine learning and optimization, efficient structural forms
Earthquake engineering, performance-based seismic design, seismic resilience, risk analysis, high-rise buildings, innovative structural systems.
Seismic design and retrofitting of structures, structural seismic health monitoring, experimental studies, shake table and field vibration tests, base isolation and energy dissipating systems, masonry buildings.
Earthquake engineering, design and analysis of sustainable timber-built structural systems, performance-based seismic retrofit and risk assessment, structural health monitoring, blast loading effects
Novel Construction Materials; Concrete Technology; Integrated Structures-Materials Schemes; Engineered Cementitious Composites; Micromechanics; Smart Sensors; Structural Rehabilitation; Heritage Restoration; Seismic Retrofit; Masonry; Structural Health Monitoring; Non-Destructive Testing; Structural Dynamics; Impact Loading; Early Warning Systems.
Steel design, adaptive structures, knowledge management, composite designs, investigations on and modeling of complex structural systems.
Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, physics and mechanics of granular materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure interaction.
Finite element analysis; Mechanics of composite materials; Constitutive modeling of engineering materials, Plasticity, Damage mechanics; Process modeling of composite structures; Analysis of impact and blast loading of metallic and composite structures.
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, full scale vibration testing, shake table testing. Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies. Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures.
Seismic behavior and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behavior and design of tall buildings, develop performance-based evaluation methodology and code design procedures for new and existing structures, energy dissipation systems.