Main Research Group

Costas Providakis, Professsor (Curriculum Vitae)

Deputy Head of the Department of Applied Sciences

Director of Applied Mechanics Lab

Department of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Crete

University Campus, GR-73100 Chania, Greece

Tel: +30.28210.37637, fax: +30.28210.37866

Email: cpprov@mred.tuc.gr

URL: http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~kprovidakis/index.html

The primary investigator Professor Costas Providakis is the leader of TUC_AMEL research team which maintains research interests in the area of structural integrity and durability, structural health monitoring, smart materials, mechanics of solids, damage mechanics, structural analysis and conservation of monuments, structural dynamics and antiseismic analysis of structures, computational mechanics, and optimization. The faculty members of TUC_AMEL research team have over 200 publications, have authored four books and edited 5 other books related to computational mechanics, structural conservation of monuments,  seismic risk and applied structural mechanics. They have co-ordinated and participated as project managers, main researchers or researchers in many national and international projects related to innovative techniques for structural integrity and analysis. A high percentage of the above research projects are financed by private companies that work on construction, structural analysis and production of innovative structural materials and the rest one by the Hellenic General Secretariat of Research and Technology, the EU or other public resources, etc. Five of the recent publications are mentioned indicatively below:

1. S. Anagnostopoulos, C. Providakis, P. Salvaneschi, G. Athanasopoulos and G. Bonacina, “SEISMOCARE: An efficient GIS tool for scenario-type investigations of seismic risk of existing cities”, Soil Dynamics and earthquake Engineering, 28(2), 73-84, 2008 (DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.06.011).
2. C.P. Providakis, D.-P.N. Kontoni and M.E. Voutetaki, “Development of an electromechanical admittance approach for application in the vibration control of intelligent structures”, Smart Materials and Structures, 16, 275-281, 2008 (DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/005).
3.  C. P. Providakis, M.E. Voutetaki, M.E. Stavroulaki and D.-P.N. Kontoni “FEM modeling of electromechanical impedance for the analysis of smart damping treatments”, Advances in Computer, information, and systems, and engineering, 129-134, 2006 (DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5261-8_22).
4. C. P. Providakis and M.E. Voutetaki, “Electromechanical admittance-based damage identification using Box-Behnken design of experiments”, Structural Durability and Health Monitoring, 3(4), 211-227, 2008. (http://www.techscience.com/paper.asp?jnl=sdhm&issue=v3n4&no=16).
5. C. Providakis, “Electro-mechanical admittance-based damage detection using extreme value statistics”, Key Engineering Materials, 385-387, 561-564, 2008 (DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.358-387.561).

 John Tsompanakis, Associate Professor (Curriculum Vitae)

Department of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Crete

University Campus, GR-73100 Chania, Greece

Tel: +30.28210.37634, fax: +30.28210.37866

Email: jt@science.tuc.gr

Maria Stavroulaki, Lecturer (Curriculum Vitae)

Department of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Crete

University Campus, GR-73100 Chania, Greece

Tel: +30.28210.37639, fax: +30.28210.37866

Email: mstavr@mred.tuc.gr

INVITED RESEARCHER (from abroad)

Polychronis Spanos, Professor (Curriculum Vitae)

Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Brown School of Engineering, Rice University

P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA

Phone (713) 348-4909 / Fax (713) 348-5191 /

E-mail: spanos@rice.edu

URL: http://memsweb.rice.edu/people.cfm?doc_id=9650

Professor Polychronis Spanos which is involved in TUC_AMEL team as distinguished invited researcher from abroad has more than 300 journal and conference articles and 19 books on safety and performance of structural and mechanical systems with emphasis on nonlinear and probabilistic aspects, and applications to aerospace, power, biomedical, petrochemical, structural, and vehicle engineering. He also serves on the editorial boards of nine journals and he is the Editor-in-Chief, of the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, and the Managing Co-Editor of the Journal of Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics.

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

Anna Pantelidou, Post-doctoral Researcher (Curriculum Vitae)

Centre for Wireless Communications

University of Oulu, Finland

Puulinnankatu 4C30, Oulu 90570, Finland

Phone : (0040) 704-0233 / Fax :  

E-mail: apantel@ee.oulu.fi

URL: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~apantel

Maristella Voutetaki, Post-doctoral Researcher (Curriculum Vitae)

Department of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Crete

University Campus, GR-73100 Chania, Greece

Tel: +30.28210.37634, fax: +30.28210.37866

E-mail: mvoutetaki@yahoo.com