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Luke Louca is a senior lecturer in structural engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He is engaged in teaching at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, focusing on structural steel design and mitigating the effects of explosions on structures. He is actively involved in research with a strong group of students currently registered for PhD studies. His primary research interests, for which he has published around 40 papers in leading journals and conferences, lie in the behavior and design of structures subjected to explosions. His work emphasizes steel structures and offshore applications, and he is currently engaged in civil defense applications using traditional construction materials as well as fiber-reinforced composite structures. His research is computational in nature, complemented by laboratory testing of small-scale specimens subjected to dynamic loading. Large-scale testing takes place off-site with numerous sponsors involved in the design of these tests. His work is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Ministry of Defence, Health and Safety Executive, and the Office of Naval Research in the USA.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Engaged in teaching and research in the area of structural engineering.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.