Research Interests

General:

• computational structural mechanics;

More specific:

• structural and multidisciplinary design optimization including:
• multipoint approximations for problems with computationally expensive and noisy response,
• evolutionary optimization, genetic algorithms, genetic programming,
• application of advanced optimization techniques to optimum design of various engineering systems;
• inverse problems in structural mechanics including:
• identification of material parameters in various constitutive models,
• structural damage recognition;
• finite element analysis and design sensitivity analysis of various structural systems, e.g. shell structures, steelwork, structural masonry.

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