Luca Prakash Argani

Research fellowship holder

Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering

Teaching fellow: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering

Via Mesiano, 77 - 38123 Trento

tel. 0461 282594

luca.argani[at]unitn [dot] it

Expertise:

Civil engineering

Computational mechanics

Constitutive modeling

Continuum mechanics

Finite element methods

Foundation engineering

Fracture mechanics

Geotechnical engineering

Modeling and simulation

Numerical modeling

Soil structure interaction

Structural engineering

Structural mechanics

	Education
	PhD in Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems - area of Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Geotechnics Professional habilitation - Chamber of Engineers of Trento, Section A (Italy) Laurea Specialistica (post reform) – Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (28/S) Laurea a 3 anni (post reform) – Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
	Research interests
	Analysis of the mechanical behaviour of granular media and partially saturated media, standard and non-standard elastoplastic constitutive laws, elastoplastic coupling Multiphysics modelling of multibody systems involving ﬂuid-structure interaction and contact mechanics Investigation of wave propagation in soils and their effects in structures; analysis of systems for the mitigation of the effects of seismic action on structures