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1. Structural Engineering:

• Design of civil infrastructure and lifelines to withstand wind, tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and tornadoes

• Construction material behaviour at high temperatures and analysis of whole structure behaviour under fire impacts

• Lifelines earthquake engineering

• Monitoring of structural repairs and development of self-repairable structures

• Sensor network design and data transmission

• Seismic response of buildings, bridges, and other special structures

• Structural pathologies and diagnostic methodological approach

• In-situ sensors, corrosion sensors, and sensors for local damage detection 

• Fire risk analysis, numerical modeling, and protection systems

• Advanced inspection, testing, and non-destructive methodologies

• Performance assessment and safety evaluation

• Advanced signal processing and interpretation techniques

• Monitoring of aging structures and infrastructure, adaptive rehabilitation, and rehabilitation technologies

• Seismic retrofitting, repair, and strengthening methods

• Load capacity ratings and service life estimations

• Building performance simulation and durability

• Health monitoring of high-rise buildings and bridges

• Passive, active, and semi-active controls, remote control of monitoring systems

• Rehabilitation of the constructed heritage

• Rehabilitation of coastal structures

• Durability issues in harsh environments

• Dynamic stability and progressive collapse

• Vibration and wave propagation methods

• FRP composites

• Facade material and design

• Microstructural characterization of concrete

• Fiber-reinforced concrete technology

• High-performance concrete

• Concrete cancer

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   2. Geotechnical Engineering area:

• Finite element modeling of saturated/unsaturated geotechnical systems/materials

• Soil improvement techniques and modification by inclusions and confinement

• Dynamic soil-structure interaction and pipeline-soil interaction

• Underground structures, tunnels, trenchless construction, soil classification, exploration, and laboratory testing

• Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, geotechnical site investigation and instrumentation

• Numerical simulation of multiphase porous media, computer applications in geotechnical engineering

• Soil bearing capacity and foundation settlements

• Geotechnics for road and railway transportation, computer applications in geotechnical engineering

• Slope stability, landslides, and retaining walls, recycled wastes & lightweight geomaterials

• Earthquake-resistant design of foundations, numerical analysis of suction caissons

• Sensor-Enabled Geosynthetics (SEG), seepage, and dewatering systems

• Limit state design of foundations, erosion, and deterioration, deep foundations / pile foundation

• Unsaturated soil mechanics, geotechnical aspects of landfills, geo-environmental engineering

• Computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling, dam and marine geotechnics

• Computational poromechanics, Soft soil engineering, liquefaction analysis, soil-bio interactions

• Field seismic testing, rock mechanics

• Creep of clayey soils, probabilistic approaches, geohazards, offshore foundations, centrifuge model tests 

• Reliability-based design for foundations, local site effects, and microzonation

• Cemented soils / expansive soils, case studies

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   3. Offsite manufacturing and digital construction:

• Sustainable construction, Construction issues in modular systems, and planning of modular building

• Types of modular construction and application of modular systems 

• Smart construction (3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics)

• Precast concrete modules and hybrid modular construction systems

• Prefabrication forms, designing, process, and formwork systems

• Factory production of modules, automation, and field factory

• Technological forecasting and strategic planning, intelligent decision support systems

• Information technologies in construction and BIM, construction life cycle/construction materials

• Construction economics and cost control, construction procurement, and equipment

• Specifications and quality control, scheduling and estimating, value engineering and optimization

• Acoustic insulation in modular construction, structural design of modular structures

• Tolerances; related codes and standards, built en vironment, inspection methods, contract administration

• Environmental concerns, renovation of buildings, case studies​

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   4. Road Engineering:

• Accident analysis and traffic psychology

• Airport pavement systems

• Bounded and unbounded pavement design

• Crack and fracture mechanic

• Transportation network design

• Environmental impacts of transportation

• Intelligent and E-Transportation

• Innovative laboratory testing

• Logistics and supply-chain

• Material characterization and behaviour

• Non-destructive tests

• Numerical simulations of pavements

• Pavement construction techniques

• Pavement damage analysis

• Life cycle assessment and cost analysis

• Pavement management systems

• Pavement structural integrity evaluation

• Road and pavement maintenance

• Road construction, marking, and safety

• Load-bearing capacity of pavements

• Sustainable transportation

• Transportation economic policy

• Fatigue-Creep interaction in the pavements

• Transportation infrastructures

• Case studies

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