Keywords:
structural reliability
dynamic identification
composite materials for the structural strengthening
creep and damage of concrete
seismic engineering
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; 1.5 Masonry elements strengthened with composite materials (FRP and FRCM)
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.
