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Composite materials

Micromechanical analysis of composite materials with random microstructures. Constitutive modeling of metal matrix and polymer matrix composites, modeling of transport processes in composites, genetic algorithms. 

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Invited Lectures
  • Drexel University, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Philadelphia, August 1999.
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, August 1999.
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, January 2001.
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, June, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).
  • Bauhaus-Universitat, Weimar, June, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).
  • RWTH, Aachen, September, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).
 
Geotechnical engineering

Constitutive modeling of soft soils, modeling of transport processes in soils, consolidation, micromechanical modeling of soils reinforced with polyethylene strips.

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