Current Research Activities:

  • Identification of loads (including impact) via off- and on-line approaches;
  • Structural health monitoring and active control of vibrations;
  • Adaptive impact absorption;
  • Adaptive vibroacoustics for noise attenuation;
  • Dynamic phenomena in the railway vehicle-track system,
  • Vibrations generated by vehicles, phenomena in fast train tracks, track models,
  • Dynamic contact problems in rail-wheel system,
  • Noise generation and damping,
  • Semipassive damping in spans under moving load,
  • Experimental investigation of friction, self-exciting vibrations;
  • Dynamic phenomena in mechanical systems and structures:
  • vibrations of structures under moving loads,
  • dynamic modelling of the rotor-shaft systems of energetic machines and an analysis of their vibrations coupled by the manufacturing and exploitation imperfections,
  • modelling and dynamic analysis of drive systems of machines and vehicles;
  • Dynamic diagnostics
  • fault diagnostics of turbine elements (applications: energetic turbogenerator sets, aircraft engines),
  • diagnostics of elements of structures under moving loads;
  • Stability analysis of structures subjected to nonconservative loadings;
  • Dynamic phenomenon of flow around a body;
  • Mobile robots;
  • Computer-Aided Engineering Design;
  • Diagrammatic knowledge representation and reasoning.

Key Words:

  • smart structures, adaptive control, crashworthiness, structural health monitoring, vibration control, FEM modelling, safety and integrity of engineering systems;
  • stability of motion, periodic structures, friction, structural dynamics, structural stability, non-conservative systems, crashworthiness of vehicles, vehicle-infrastructure interaction, active control systems;
  • aeroelasticity, flutter, unsteady areodynamics, nonlinearities;
  • mobile robots, mapping, navigation, path planning, neural networks, fuzzy systems, rough sets, graph grammars, knowledge-based design.