Materials and Applied Mechanics Laboratory (MAML)

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The Materials and Applied Mechanics Laboratory (MAML) is one of the Research Laboratories of the School of l Engineering and is primary involved in the structural health monitoring, mechanical characterization of engineering structures, non-destructive evaluation techniques and materials technology. The secondary research objective of the MAML aims at contributing to the realistic description of the structural behavior under various loading conditions (static or dynamic) by employing analysis and examination of all types of structural failures and assessment of the strength of damaged structures. Structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques with the use of advanced sensing equipments is one of the recent focus of objectives of the MAML. Other objectives of the MAML Lab could be considered the investigation of repair and strengthening techniques, the earthquake engineering analysis of RC buildings, steel and masonry structures, the analysis of the behavior of repaired and strengthened RC or masonry structures under simulated earthquake loading, and finally the investigation and analysis of the contribution of different base isolation systems in buildings for eliminated seismic vibrations.