The research activities and work of the postgraduate and PhD students are focused in the following areas:
- Discretisation Methods of Stress and Strain Analysis of Structures;
- Modelling and response analysis of structures subjected to dynamic actions;
- Modelling of material nonlinearities for static and dynamic analyses;
- Behaviour of structures with large displacements;
- Local and global instability problems;
- Analysis of thin-walled structures;
- Experimental methods in structural mechanics;
- Design codes and provisions.
The Department provides teaching to students of the Faculties of Structural Engineering, Architecture, Transportation Engineering and Hydrotechnics.