Offshore multiphysics
We connect models of structures, water and seabed with design methods for offshore applications through the Unicamp–USP–TU Delft SPRINT project.
Delft, Netherlands
MS3 · TU Delft
Mega Smart Systems & Structures
Delft University of Technology
Adaptive structures, metamaterials and offshore mechanics connect our groups through student trajectories and joint research.
Led by Jovana Jovanova
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Our collaboration
Can the structure itself help control the vibration it transmits?
Jovana Jovanova’s Mega Smart Systems & Structures group develops structures and systems whose geometry, materials or mechanisms help them adapt and perform new functions. Our collaboration connects that expertise with SSI Lab’s understanding of waves, foundations and the seabed. Ana Vasconcelos’s move from SSI Lab to doctoral research at Delft helped establish this connection.
Metamaterials and vibration
Architected materials can change how mechanical waves travel. This common interest connects structural dynamics with strategies for reducing offshore vibration and noise.
Adaptive and bio-inspired systems
The groups share interests in compliant mechanisms, soft robotics and the interaction between a deformable structure and its surroundings.
LAMEC → SSI Lab → TU Delft
Ana Vasconcelos’s research journey.
After her early research at LAMEC and her MSc at SSI Lab, Ana Carolina Azevedo Vasconcelos continued to TU Delft. She completed her PhD on 9 April 2025, with Dingena Schott as supervisor and Jovana Jovanova as co-supervisor.
Her thesis developed a metamaterial cushion placed between an impact hammer and an offshore monopile. Its internal resonators are designed to filter vibration during pile installation, addressing a source of underwater noise. Her trajectory connects our work on foundation dynamics with Delft’s expertise in engineered materials and offshore systems.
Read Ana’s doctoral thesisWorking across three institutions.
Unicamp · USP · TU Delft
SPRINT: design optimization offshore
Our 2025–2027 FAPESP SPRINT project supports research exchange between Unicamp, USP and TU Delft. With Renato Picelli and Jovana Jovanova, we bring complementary methods in mechanics and design to offshore structures and develop the next stages of this collaboration.
FAPESP project 2025/02487-1WCCM–ECCOMAS 2026 · Munich
Computational Mechanics for Sustainable Development
We jointly organized minisymposium MS079 with Jovana and Renato. It connected computational modelling with questions in renewable energy, vibration mitigation and sustainable infrastructure.
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Shared publications
Analysis of the vibratory response of piles in fluid-saturated soils using the PML method
Amanda Oliveira, Pérsio Barros, Ana Carolina Vasconcelos, Jovana Jovanova and Josué Labaki
COBEM 2025
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Research by our alumni at Delft
Ana’s doctoral work with the Delft team produced these studies on metamaterials and offshore pile installation.
A multi-objective design optimization strategy for acoustic/elastic metamaterials under impact loading
Ana Carolina Azevedo Vasconcelos, Dingena Schott and Jovana Jovanova
Read the articleDesign methodology of a meta-cushion for reducing underwater noise during offshore pile hammering
Ana Carolina Azevedo Vasconcelos, Christof Van Zijl, Dingena Schott and Jovana Jovanova
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