This is the largest research group in the Department and contains staff whose interests encompass both fundamentals and applications. Work at the fundamental level aims to enhance understanding of the behaviour of structures and materials under a variety of environmental conditions, loadings and accidental actions. At the applied level the group co-operates with industry in extending the limits of structural design, and in developing innovative forms of construction.
Researchers make use of a variety of advanced analytical modelling and experimental methods.
Concrete and masonry materials and structures , studying the performance of cementitious, masonry and reinforcing materials, and associated construction techniques, leading to more efficient design of reinforced concrete and masonry structures. Structural Dynamics , in the fields of blast and impact loading, and the vibrational response of structures to human excitation. Details of our recently developed experimental facilities .