Major areas of study include:
- applied mechanics
- structural mechanics
- steel and concrete structures
- structural reliability
- properties of materials
- experimental mechanics
- stochastic systems
- builidng science
- building performance
Current research activities include:
- structural stability
- static and dynamic response of structures
- propagation of elastic disturbances in solids
- stability of elastic and inelastic continua
- structural response to random excitation
- nonlinear stochastic processes
- hydroelasticity
- analysis and design of steel
- reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete structures
- building enclosure performance
- structural optimization
- conceptual design
- computer-aided design of structures
- strength and safety of structures
- strength of pressure vessels
- plastic behaviour of shells
- mechanisms of fatigue failure in materials
- structural model mechanics
- experimental stress analysis
- development of hybrid-experimental techniques for complex stress concentration regions
- shape optimization
- fluid flow theories and techniques of advanced experimental mechanics
- principles of modelling reality
- rheological responses of engineering materials
- 3-D mechanics of composite structures and of contact problems
- fracture mechanics
- optical methods in mechanics
- isodyne and strain-gradient stress analysis
- experimental testing of analytical models and solutions in mechanics
- wall and roof performance