The institute conducts research in the scientific disciplines: mechanics and machine design & operation. The basic research areas related to the development of our own academic staff (the prepared doctoral and habilitation dissertations) include:
- Non-mechanical effects in continuum dynamics
- Modern problems in mechanics of non-Newtonian fluids
- Stability and optimization of thin-walled shell structures: one- and multi-layered
- Application of information technologies and experimental data in vibroacoustics of biomechanical systems
Within the institute, the following scientific specialities have been developed:
- Computer methods in mechanics
- Thermoelasticity and thermal stresses
- Fluid mechanics
- Theory of heat conduction
- Coupling field theory
- Mechanics of auxetics
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Theory of mechanisms
- Interval arithmetic
- Biomechanics
- Stability of shell structures in the elasto-plastic range
- Optimization of thin-walled, composite and multi-layered structures
- Strength and stability of thin-walled rod, plate and shell structures
- Computer methods of structural analysis
- Modelling and investigation of mechanical properties of construction materials
- Structures made from porous materials
- Multi-symptom vibroacoustic diagnostics of systems
- Diagnostics of technological processes with the application of acoustic emission
- Machine dynamics and structural distribution of power and energy flow in mechanical and biomechanical systems
- Protection of human and the environment against noise and vibration
- Minimization of vibrations of machines, devices and systems
- Vibroacoustic simulations
- Vibroacoustic monitoring
See also: Areas of academic research of the divisions Z1, Z2, Z3