Research Fields
Currently, te group is working on subjects related to the following research fields:
- Dynamic behaviour of structural elements: simulation and experimental analysis
- Energy absorbing structures
- Constitutive models of materials at high-speed deformation
- Fracture mechanics
- Damage mecanics
- Trials for fracture under dynamic conditions
- Thermo mechanical behaviour of materials
- Metal matrix composites
- Cellular materials
- Residual stress in structural elements
- Dynamic plastic instabilies
- Generalized continuum mechanics: non-local theories and gradient theories
- Discrete models in mechanics of solids
- Mechanic behaviour and optimization of biological structures
