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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.