Spyros A. Karamanos, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests

Structural Mechanics, Stability and Buckling, Numerical Methods and Finite Elements, Inelastic Analysis of Materials and Structures, Analysis of Plates and Shells, Design & Analysis of Steel Structures, Design & Analysis of Pipelines and Industrial Structures, Earthquake Engineering.

Education

1993	Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
1991	Master of Science in Engineering (Μ.Sc.) in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
1989	Diploma (5-year degree) in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Highest Honors, 1st out of 350 students).

Academic & Professional Experience

08/2009 – present	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
05/2003 – 08/2009	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
05/1999 – 05/2003	Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
10/1996 - 05/1999	Design Engineer, EGNATIA ODOS AE., Thessaloniki, Greece.
01/1996 - 10/1996	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Steel Structures Lab, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
01/1994 - 12/1995	Military Service (Mandatory), Naval Works Department, Hellenic Navy General Staff - duration: 23 months
09/1993 - 01/1994	Graduate Teaching Assistant in Steel Structures & Structural Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA.
09/1991 - 09/1993	Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Sponsored by Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas, USA.
09/1989 - 05/1991	Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Sponsored by the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC), Austin, Texas, USA.

Associate Editor in Peer-Review Journals

ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (2008 – present)
ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems, Engineering & Practice (2009 – present)

Teaching Experience

(1999 – present)

Mechanics - Statics (Undergraduate course)
Finite Elements (Undergraduate course)
Structural Mechanics (Undergraduate course)
Advanced Finite Element Methods (Post-Graduate course)
Nonlinear Structural Mechanics - Stability (Post-Graduate course)
Continuum Mechanics (Post-Graduate course)

Academic Awards

09/1984	Ranked First (1st) in the Nationwide General University Entrance Examination
07/1989	First Honor Graduate (1st out of 350 students)
1985 - 1989	Fifteen (15) Awards and Merit-Based Scholarships from the National Technical University, the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece and the Technical Chamber of Greece for excellent academic performance
1989 - 1993	Full Academic Merit-Based Assistantship and two Merit-Based Departmental Fellowships for excellent academic performance, Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, USA.
2004, 2005	Awards from the Hellenic Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics and the Greek Society of Computational Mechanics, for excellent theses of his students.
2006	Best Paper Award 2006 – Pipeline Technology Symposium for paper OMAE2006-92208, Andreadakis, K. P., and Karamanos S. A., "Pipe Response Under Concentrated Lateral Loads and External Pressure.", Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, ASME, Hamburg, Germany, June 2006.
2007	Sam Y. Zamrik Literature Award 2006, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division – for paper Karamanos, S. A., Tsouvalas, D. and Gresnigt, A. M., “Ultimate Bending Capacity and Buckling of Pressurized 90 deg Steel Elbows.”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 348-356, August 2006.
2010	Outstanding Technical Paper Award from Design & Analysis Committee (2009), American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division - for paper Houliara, S. and Karamanos, S. A., "Buckling of Thin-Walled Long Steel Cylinders Under Bending.", Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, ASME, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009.
2012	G. E. Otto Widera Literature Award 2011, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division – for paper Vasilikis, D., and Karamanos, S. A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure.”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 133, No.1, Article Number: 011205, February 2011.

Other Professional Experience

1989 - present	Professional Engineer in Greece, member of Technical Camber of Greece
1989 - 1996	Engineering Consultant in special design and analysis issues on metal tubular structures, steel pipelines and seismic engineering (TRITON Engineers & Consultants, A. S. Karamanos & Associates).

Awards of his students

2004	Charis Eleftheriadis, 3rd Award of Competition for the Best DiplomaThesis in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics in Greece for 2001-2004. Awarded by the Hellenic Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (HSTAM).
2005	Manolis A. Platyrrachos, 2nd Award of John Argyris Competition for the Best Diploma Thesis in Computational Mechanics for 2002-2005. Awarded by the Greek Association for Computational Mechanics (GRACM).
2009	Daniel Vasilikis, 3rd Award Student Paper Competition, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP), Prague, Czech Rep., July 2009, for paper: Vasilikis, D., and Karamanos, S. A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure.”, Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, ASME, PVP2009-77216, Prague, Czech Rep., July 2009.
2009	Maria Vathi, 2nd Award of Competition for the Best Diploma Thesis in Steel Structures for 2005-2008. Awarded by the Greek Metal Structures Research Society (MSRS).

Reviewer in International Conferences

ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP), 2005 - present

ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), 2006 - present

GRACM International Congress on Computational
Mechanics, 2005 - present

Reviewer in Journals

Aerospace Science and Technology
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Applied Mathematical Modelling
Archives of Applied Mechanics
ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering
ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering
ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics & Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Computers and Structures
Engineering Structures
Earthquake Spectra
International Journal of Fatigue
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics
International Journal of Pavement Engineering
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
International Journal of Solids and Structures
ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology
Journal of Constructional Steel Research
Journal of Fluids and Structures
Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Journal of Sound and Vibration
Journal of Strain Analysis
Marine Structures
Ocean Engineering
Thin-Walled Structures
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Steel and Composite Structures

Professional and Scientific Societies

	Chairman (2011 – present), and Member of Seismic Engineering Committee, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division, ASME (2004 – present).
	Technical Program Representative, Seismic Engineering Track, Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference, ASME (2008 and 2009).
	Member of Stability Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE (2005 – present).
	Member of Offshore Pipelines Committee, Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Division, ASME (2005 – present).
	Member of Flexible Steel Pipe Committee, Pipeline Division, ASCE (2004 – 2009).
	Secretary (2005 – 2009) and Member (1996 – present), Greek Association for Computational Mechanics (GRACM).
	Corresponding member of ECCS, TWG 8.4 Stability of Shells (2004 – present). Secretary of ECCS, TWG 8.4 (2008 – 2011).
	Member of ASME, ASCE, Hellenic Society of Th. & Appl. Mechanics, Metal Structures Research Society, Greek Association for Computational Mechanics

Member of Scientific Committees in International Conferences

	Seismic Engineering Committee, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP), annually, since 2004.
	Pipeline Technology Committee, ASME International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), annually, since 2004.
	ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (a) COMPDYN 2007, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, June 13–16, 2007, (b) COMPDYN 2009, Rhodos, Greece, June 22-24, 2009, (c) COMPDYN 2011, Corfu, Greece, May 26-28, 2011, (d) COMPDYN 2013, Kos, Greece, June 12-14, 2013.
	GRACM Congress on Computational Mechanics, (a) 4th GRACM Patras, Greece, 2002, (b) 5th GRACM Limasol, Cyprus, 2005, (c) 6th GRACM Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008, (d) 7th GRACM Athens, Greece, 2011.
	SEECCM South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, (a) 1st SEECCM Kragujevac, Serbia, 2006, (b) 2nd SEECCM Rhodes, Greece, 2009 and (c) 3rd SEECCM Kos, Greece, 2013.

Supervision of PhD Dissertations

Sotiria Houliara, “Computational Techniques in Structural Stability of Thin- Walled Cylindrical Shells”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, completed, March 2008.

Daniel Vassilikis, “Structural Stability of Cylindrical Shells with Lateral Confinement”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, completed, December 2012.

Polynikis Vazouras, “Structural Behavior of Buried Steel Pipelines under Earthquake Action”, Department of Civil Engineering, co-advising, University of Thessaly, under development.

George Varelis, “Ultimate Capacity of Steel Structural Members under Strong Cyclic Loading”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, under development.

Patricia Pappa, “Computational Methods for Shell Buckling in the Plastic Range”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, under development.

Aglaia E. Pournara, “Structural integrity of steel oil & gas pipelines with local wall distortions”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, under development.

Maria Vathi, “Structural Behavior of Liquid Storage Steel Containers under Strong Dynamic Excitation”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, under development.

Giannoula Chatzopoulou, “'Structural Behavior of Metal Tubular Members Under Strong Cyclic Loading”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, under development.

Representative Recent Publications

Karamanos, S. A., Romeijn, A. and Wardenier, J., “Stress Concentrations in Tubular Gap K-joints: Mechanics & Fatigue Design.”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 22, No.1, pp. 4-14, January 2000.

Karamanos, S. A., “Bending Instabilities of Elastic Tubes.”, International Journal of Solids & Structures, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 2059-2085, April 2002.

Karamanos, S. A., Tsouvalas, D. and Gresnigt, A. M., “Ultimate Bending Capacity and Buckling of Pressurized 90 deg Steel Elbows.”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 348-356, August 2006 [Sam Y. Zamrik Literature Award 2006, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division].

Houliara, S. and Karamanos, S. A., “Stability of Long Transversely-Isotropic Elastic Cylinders Under Bending.”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 10–24, January 2010.

Vasilikis, D., and Karamanos, S. A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure.”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 133, No.1, Article Number: 011205, February 2011 [G. E. Otto Widera Literature Award 2011, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pressure Vessels & Piping Division]

Vazouras, P., Karamanos, S. A., and Dakoulas, P., “Mechanical Behaviour of Buried Steel Pipelines Under Strike-Slip and Normal/Reverse Fault Displacements”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 41, pp. 164-180, October 2012.

Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S. A., “Mechanical Behavior and Wrinkling of Lines Pipes.”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 49, No. 23-24, pp. 3432-3446, November 2012.

Varelis, G. E., Karamanos, S. A., and Gresnigt, A. M., “Steel Elbow Response Under Strong Cyclic Loading.”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 135, No.1, Article Number: 011207, February 2013.

Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S. A., “On the Mechanics of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure.”, Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME, accepted for publication, to appear, 2013, Invited paper [special issue on Pressure Vessel Technology, Applied Mechanics Reviews and Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology].

Representative Research Projects

(1988 – 1992)	Structural Integrity of Offshore Pipelines. Sponsor: Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC) – Texas, USA. Partners: The University of Texas at Austin, USA, Texas A&M University, USA
(1991 – 1993)	Stability of Tubes Under External Pressure and Structural Loads. Sponsor: Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas, USA. Partners: The University of Texas at Austin, USA
(1995 – 1996)	Fatigue Design Guide for Circular and Rectangular Hollow Section Multiplanar Joints. Sponsor: European Convention of Steel and Coal (ECSC). Partners: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, TNO Bouw, The Netherlands.
(2001 – 2003)	(2001 – 2003)Development of Design Guidelines for the Seismic Design of Industrial Equipment, Sponsor: Greek Organization for Earthquake Planning and Protection. Partners: University of Thessaly, Phosphoric Fertilizers Industry, Thessaloniki, Greece [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2003)	Fatigue Failure of Buckled Pipelines. Sponsor: Waterbedrijf Europoort, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Partners: Delft University of Technology, University of Thessaly, TNO Building and Construction Research.
(2005-2008)	FATHOMS: Fatigue behavior of high strength steels welded joints in offshore and marine systems, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2005-00042, Partners: CSM, Italy, Corus, UK, ISQ, Portugal, SZMF, Germany, University of Thessaly.
(2007-2010)	OPUS: Optimizing the seismic performance of steel and steel-concrete structures by standardizing materials quality control, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2007-00039, Partners: RIVA Acciaio spa, Italy, University of Liege, Belgium, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, University of Thessaly, Arcelor Profil Luxemburg SA, Luxemburg, INSA de Rennes, France, University of Pisa, Italy [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2007-2010)	PRECASTEEL: Prefabricated steel structures for low-rise buildings in seismic areas, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2007-00038, Partners: ILVA SpA, Italy, University of Camerino, Italy, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, University of Thessaly, University of Pisa, Italy, University of Navarra, Spain, Ferriere Nord, Italy, Shelter SA, Greece, ISQ, Portugal, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland, OCAM s.r.l., Italy [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2007-2010)	STEELRETRO: Steel solutions for seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing constructions, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2007-00050, Partners: RIVA Acciaio SpA, Italy, CERI University of Rome, Italy, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, University of Thessaly, Arcelor Profil Luxembourg SA, Luxemburg, Shelter SA, Greece, ISQ, Portugal, University of Pisa, Italy, Polytechnic University of Timosoara, Romania , Region of Tuscany, Italy, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2008-2011)	HITUBES: Design and Integrity Assessment of High Strength Tubular Structures for Extreme Loading Conditions, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2008-00037, Partners: University of Trento, Centro Sviluppo Materialli, ISQ, Fundacion ITMA, KIMAB AB, University of Liege, University of Thessaly, Stahlbau Pichler [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2008-2011)	ATTEL: Performance-based approaches for high strength tubular columns and connections under earthquake and fire loadings Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2008-00035, Partners: University of Trento, Centro Sviluppo Materialli, University of Liege, University of Thessaly, Stahlbau Pichler [Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].
(2009-2012)	INDUSE: Structural safety of industrial steel tanks, pressure vessels and piping systems under seismic loading, Sponsor: European Commission, program RFSR-CT-2010-00022, Partners: University of Thessaly, CSM, TU Delft, University of Trento, RWTH Aachen, EBETAM AE, TechniPetroL Hellas SA [Program Coordinator & Scientific Responsible for U. of Thessaly].