• Application of piezoelectric and fibre Bragg grating sensors for detection, localisation and identification of different types of damage in structures (metallic, isotropic, anisotropic materials).
• Application of fibre Bragg grating sensors for strain-based vibration methods – operational modal analysis.
• Application of fibre Bragg grating sensors for real marine structures working under normal operational conditions.
• Application of terahertz and infrared thermography techniques for mechanical and physico-chemical damage detection, localization and determination of size and type.
• Application of artificial neural networks in non-destructive testing and/ or structural health monitoring.
• Application of non-contact air-coupled transducer based elastic wave generation method for damage detection problems.
• Application of ultrasonic phased array-based flaw detection.
• Acoustic emission based real-time impact and damage source localization in composite and metallic structures.
• Application of multi-functional materials in active control of structures.
• Development of electromechanical impedance method for damage detection in structural elements.
• Detection of defects in adhesive-bonds based on elastic wave propagation and electromechanical impedance methods.
• Investigation of nonlinear debond response in composite structures using guided waves.
• Visualization of different types of damage by the laser vibrometry and full wavefield of elastic waves propagation processing.
• Bioinspired mechanical metamaterials in diverse technological fields.
• Vibration based damage detection methods.
• Optimization of sensor placement for vibration based as well as elastic waves based damage assessment.
• Elastic constants identification of composite laminates by using Lamb wave dispersion curves and optimization methods.
• Modelling of processes in advanced engineering materials with complex microstructures and evolving properties.
• Hierarchical models, hierarchical approximations and adaptive finite element methods for static and dynamic analysis of elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric media.