RESEARCH AREAS

3D Printing

• Lattice Boltzmann Methods applied to SLM modeling
• 3DPrinting Reinforced Concrete
• 3DPrinting: From Micro to Macro Level
• 3D Printed Patches for Esophageal Tissue Engineering
• Structural Applications of 3DPrinted FDM parts

Numerical Methods

• Isogeometric analysis and collocation
• Numerical techniques for fast dynamics problems
• Anisotropic triangles in an immersed finite element approach

Biomechanics

• Aortic Valve
• Simulation of endovascular stenting/aortic endografting
• Patient-specific isogeometric analysis for vascular biomechanics
• Medical Image Processing
• Non-invasive measurements of aortic size
• Fatigue modeling of cardiovascular stents
• Computational Fluid Dynamics for Aorta Haemodynamics

Advanced Materials

• Constitutive modeling of shape memory alloys
• Constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues
• Constitutive modeling of shape memory polymers
• Nitinol spring actuators
• GENERIC framework applied to shape memory alloy modeling
• Fatigue modeling

Civil Engineering

• Mixed models for the structural analysis
• Non prismatic beam modelling
• Simulation/Application of SMA to civil engineering

Currently non-active topics