Prof. Ettore Antona
Analysis of Objectives:
Thematic Areas of Scientific Work
Towards an analysis of the the cultural bases for
academic teaching, it may be useful to
classify the addressed topics into thematic areas.
An overview of topics and thematic areas is presented below, with reference to
items appearing in the list of publications:
- Security, reliability, etc.
- Probabilistic
nature of security: (38),
(50),
(52),
(79),
(80)
- Mechanisms
towards improving security: (50),
(52),
(70),
(79),
(80)
-
Probabilistic quantification of security: (71),
(83),
(94),
(97),
(103),
(110),
(119)
- Design and its foundations
- Limits of
equilibrium stability, with particular reference to structures
- Engineering
approaches and applications of variational calculus and perturbation methods: (23),
(27),
(28),
(41),
(99)
- Mechanics of
aeronautical and space systems: (60),
(74),
(82),
(83)
- Design and
related instruments: (2),
(3),
(4),
(7),
(11),
(14),
(15),
(22),
(118),
(120),
(126),
(127)
- Fracture mechanics (in structural security)
-
Non-distructive assessments: (43)
- Design
methodologies: (40),
(43),
(46),
(47)
- Work in real-life conditions
- Continuum
dynamics with time dependent boundary location: (58),
(61),
(62),
(63),
(64),
(66), (93),
(95),
(96),
(102)
- Phenonenology
of behaviour of structural elements : (8),
(9),
(10,
(18),
(50),
(65)
- Propagation
states in modular structures: (87),
(90)
- Adequacy of analytical instruments
- Logical and
scientific foundations of calculus and design methodologies: (16),
(54),
(55),
(81),
(84),
(87),
(90),
(121)
- Asymptotic
approaches in structural analysis: (84),
(92),
(99),
(106)
- Methods and
codes of structural calculus
- Design of vehicles under relativistic speed (113),
(114),
(128).
- Critique of scientific research, both basic and applied (123).