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Luke Louca is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, specializing in structural engineering. He engages in teaching at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, focusing on structural steel design and the mitigation of explosion effects on structures. Luke is actively involved in research, supervising a strong cohort of PhD students. His principal research interests lie in the behavior and design of structures subjected to explosions, having published around 40 papers in leading journals and conferences. This includes a focus on steel structures for offshore applications and the civil defense applications using traditional construction materials and fiber-reinforced composite structures. His work encompasses computational methods, laboratory testing of small-scale specimens under dynamic loading, and large-scale testing conducted off-site with several sponsors involved in the design of these tests. His research is funded by various organizations, including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Office of Naval Research (USA).
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.