Laboratory of Virtual Research | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

The Laboratory of Virtual Research is operating withihn the Department of Mechanics of Materials and Structures. The Laboratory is located in room 202 in 'Żelbet' Building.

Research areas

Our research team deals with the analysis of multilayered shells, in particular with the examination of large displacement and rotation, stability, failure initiation and progress.

We use in our simulations available FEM environments as Abaqus, Sofistik or Nastran and also our own codes written in Fortran.

We have a big experience in:

• analysis, experimental testing and design of statically and dynamically loaded multilayered constructions, like beams, plates, shells and footbridges,
• building of FEM knee joint models based on geometry from magnetic resonance images,
• FEM analysis of the influence of meniscus and articular cartilage geometry on the knee joint biomechanics.

Research team has experience in conducting crashtests simulations of various vehicles with road barriers. These analysis are extremely nonlinear, with inclusion of models of complex geometries and many material models. Performing crashtest simulations forces use of specialized software (LS-DYNA), which runs on super-computers.