Temi di Ricerca:
•The viscoplastic behavior in clayey soils during fast shearing;
• Dynamic behavior of soils under large and small shear strains;
• Physical models of earthquake-induced landslides;
• Regression and data driven analysis;
•Geophysical prospecting with active and passive techniques.
•Site seismic response with creation and development of computational models
•Seismic signals analysis;
•Physically based, numerical and hybrid computational models;
•Genetic and evolutionary algorithms, implementation of optimization techniques;
•Study of specific litho-morphological features promoting local seismic amplification effects
•GIS models for the study on structural control of landslide events
•Analysis of the spatial and time distribution of shallow landslides
•Shear structures stemming from the stiff and ductile strains of large clayey landslides;
•Groundwater table by using seismic refraction techniques;
•Forecast and estimate of the spring flow rates in karst aquifers;