Micromechanical analysis of composite materials with random microstructures. Constitutive modeling of metal matrix and polymer matrix composites, modeling of transport processes in composites, genetic algorithms. 

• Drexel University, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Philadelphia, August 1999.
• Texas A&M University, College Station, August 1999.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, January 2001.
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, June, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).
• Bauhaus-Universitat, Weimar, June, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).
• RWTH, Aachen, September, 2001 (A short course on Micromechanics).

Constitutive modeling of soft soils, modeling of transport processes in soils, consolidation, micromechanical modeling of soils reinforced with polyethylene strips.