Proposed Topics for Graduate Thesis

The following topics of research in the broader areas of mechanics and optimization are developed in the Institute or within numerous collaborations with other academic or industrial groups:

Proposed topics
1

Nonsmooth mechanics, dynamics.

2

Modelling of smart structures.

3

Structural Optimization and control.

4

Topology optimization of structures and mechanisms.

5
Parameter identification and inverse problems.
6

Structural analysis of steel, concrete and masonry structures.

7

Soft computing in engineering (neurofuzzy inference, inverse problems, control).