- Engineering alloys and metals for aerospace, land transportation, marine, power and bioengineering applications
- Novel engineering composites
- Bio-based engineering composites
- Recycling of structural composites
- Nanomaterials: technology, properties and modeling fracture behavior
- Smart materials and structures
- Multiscale (nano, meso, micro and macroscopic) approaches to understand mechanical behaviour and fracture of engineering materials and structures
- Damage tolerant microstructures
- Damage tolerance of stiffened structures
- Structural integrity and structural health monitoring
- Fracture and fatigue of materials and structures
- Surface Engineering and Coatings
- Experimental studies on the relation between microstructure and mechanical fracture processes
- Testing and Control Systems
- Computational mechanics and analytical methods
- Characterization of fractures
- Environmentally assisted fracture
- Integrated approaches for design, manufacturing and reliability of engineering structures
- Joining technologies
- Non-destructive testing