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My name is Marek Kawa, and I work at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am a member of the Department of Geotechnics, Hydrotechnics, Underground and Water Engineering, where we focus, among other things, on modeling soils and rocks as well as structures (or structural elements) embedded within them. I obtained my PhD in 2008 and my habilitation degree in 2024. My entire academic career has been connected with Wrocław University of Science and Technology, although I have also completed several extended research stays abroad ( Canada and France).
My research interests focus primarily on three areas:
(1) modeling the strength anisotropy of geomaterials,
(2) applications of the random finite element method in geoengineering (for probabilistic analysis of geotechnical structures)
(3) application of limit analysis in geotechnics
I am also strongly interested in research that combines these topics.
Currently, I am working specifically on three subjects:
(a) Identification of the rotation angle of principal anisotropy directions in random fields modeling soil parameters (a topic combining elements (1) and (2)),
(b) Application of finite element limit analysis method to assess the probabilistic bearing capacity of foundations (a topic combining elements (2) and (3)),
(c) Application of finite element limit analysis methods to describe strength criteria for periodic and random composites (the second class considers randomly distributed inclusions in a matrix) (a topic combining elements (1) and (3)).
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