the topics of research can be collected in four macro areas :
1) Experimental Characterization of Material in Laboratory
- Mechanical Characterization of straw bale
- Mechanical Characterization of bamboo culm
2) Standard and Applications of natural materials in Constructions
Bamboo structures: connections
Standard for bamboo as structural material
2) Model
- model for the mechanical behavior of straw bale used as building materials
- phase field model for phase transitions in steel and shape memory alloys
- coupled models for moisture diffusion and salt crystallization in porous media
- models to estimate leakage in longitudinal cracked pressurized pipes
3) Computational Mechanics
- Statics and dynamics of curved beams
- Discontinuous Galerkin method for gradient theories
- Numerical aspects related to elastodiffusive models
