Marco Savoia

Research

1 COMPOSITE MATERIALS

1.1 RC structural elements strengthened with FRP composites: cracking and deformability issues, for short- and long-term loadings; 1.2 FRP-concrete interface laws and debonding problems; 1.3 Confinement with FRP of RC columns under compression and flexure; 1.4 Experimental and numerical tests on creep deformation of pultruded profiles.

2 CREEP AND DAMAGE

2.1 Damage due to delayed strains in RC structures; 2.2 Creep deformation of elements realized with self-compacting concretes.

3 RELIABILITY

3.1 Fuzzy theories for structural analysis; 3.2 Structural reliability against stability in the presence of uncertain data;

4 STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION

4.1 Identification in time and frequency domains; 4.2 Advanced methods for identification and optimization;

5. SEISMIC ENGINEERING

5.1 Static/dynamic analysis of RC structures strengthened with FRP; 5.2 Reliability and fragility curves for RC structures; 5.3 Pushover analysis for irregular structures.

6. PRECAST STRUCTURES AND FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETES

6.1 Experimental analyses on advanced techniques for precast systems; 6.2 Concretes fiber reinforced with steel and synthetic fibers; 6.3 Steel fibers for the reduction of the crack opening in concrete structures with low reinforcements.