Research
Our researches in "Structural & Stochastic Dynamics" not only cover these aspects of Dynamics of Structures, but also several additional topics like those of mechanics of drillstrings in petroleum applications and the behavioural response of humans on vibrating structures and their interaction.
An overview of our research projects with keywords:
Wind Engineering: equivalent and principal static wind loads, tower crane dynamics in stormy winds, numerical admittance, nonlinear buffeting analysis.
Random dynamics: nonlinear random wind models, earthquake engineering implementation in a research-oriented finite element software, reduction of analysis methods, multiple timescale spectral analysis, random dynamics of transient and/or slightly nonlinear civil structures, passive damping of structures.
Deterministic Structural Dynamics: effects of human- and machine-induced vibrations on civil engineering structures, nonsmooth dynamics of systems with few interfaces.
Impact and Blasting Dynamics: modelling of the post-blast structural behaviour, wave propagation in soil and solids under impact/blast loading.
Nonlinear Structural Mechanics: nonlinear behaviour of drillstrings in curved wells, variations of the classical constrained elastica problem to elastic vibration and softly constrained elastica.
Human-induced vibrations and Biomechanics: experimental and numerical assessment of human motion in sportive activities, and interaction with civil structures.
Seismic Engineering: seismic design of structures (formerly developed by H. Degée & A. Plumier)
