Achilleas Papadimitriou
  • University of Thessaly
  • School of Engineering
  • Department of Civil Engineering


Achilleas G. Papadimitriou

 

 

Specializes in Geotechnical Engineering, with emphasis on constitutive modeling of geomaterials, the development and use of numerical methods and earthquake geotechnical engineering.

He was born in 1970 in Athens, Greece, where he completed his undergraduate education. He holds a Diploma degree in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1993), a M.Sc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995) and a Ph.D. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (1999). Before joining the University of Thessaly, he worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California at Davis (2001-2002) and the National Technical University of Athens (2002-2006).

He is the recipient of many scholarships and awards from Hellenic institutions and has worked as the Principal Investigator in 2 and as the Main Researcher in over 18 research projects in Greece, the EU and the USA, mainly in the area of computational geomechanics and earthquake geotechnical engineering. He has worked as a Consultant in over 23 significant technical works in the area of geotechnical engineering, with emphasis on the design of embankments, dams and buried pipelines against seismic shaking, liquefaction and fault surface rupture.

In his career, Dr. Papadimitriou has co-authored over 110 scientific publications (19 in refereed journals), delivered international seminars and general reports in international conferences, and served as Reviewer in 21 international journals, 7 international conferences and 2 Science Foundations (IKY, ASF), while he has received more than 427 citations of his scientific work. He is currently serving as a secretary of ERTC-12 commenting on geotechnical aspects of EC-8 and as a member of TC103 (numerical methods) & TC203 (earthquake geotechnical engineering) of ISSMGE, as well as Technical Committee 2 (seismic aspects of dam design) of ICOLD. He is member of several professional associations including ASCE and ISSMGE and a registered professional engineer in Greece.

He officially joined the University of Thessaly as a Lecturer in 2007, but initiated lecturing in the Department of Civil Engineering in 2006. He serves as an Assistant Professor since December 2011.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Papadimitriou A. G., Bouckovalas G. D. (2002), "Plasticity model for sand under small and large cyclic strains: a multiaxial formulation", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 22(3): 191 - 204, April
  • Dafalias Y. F., Papadimitriou A. G., Li X. S. (2004), "Sand plasticity model accounting for inherent fabric anisotropy", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 130(11): 1319 - 1333, November
  • Bouckovalas G. D., Papadimitriou A. G. (2005), "Numerical Evaluation of Slope Topography Effects on Seismic Ground Motion", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 25(7-10): 547 - 555
  • Dafalias Y. F., Manzari M. T., Papadimitriou A. G. (2006), "SANICLAY: simple anisotropic clay plasticity model", International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 30, 1231 - 1257
  • Loukidis D., Bouckovalas G. D., Papadimitriou A. G. (2009), "Analysis of fault rupture propagation through uniform soil cover", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 29(11-12): 1389-1404
  • Andrianopoulos K. I., Papadimitriou A. G., Bouckovalas G. D. (2010), "Explicit integration of bounding surface model for the analysis of earthquake soil liquefaction", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 34(15): 1586-1614
  • Bouckovalas G. D., Papadimitriou A. G., Niarchos D. G., Tsiapas Y. Z. (2011), "Sand fabric evolution effects on drain design for liquefaction mitigation", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 31(10): 1426-1439
  • Papadimitriou A. G., Bouckovalas G. D., Andrianopoulos K. I. (2014), "Methodology for estimating seismic coefficients for performance-based design of earthdams and tall embankments", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 56: 57-73

 

Last Updated on 07/03/2014

Achilleas Papadimitriou - Assistant Professor, Civil Engineer PhD
University of Thessaly - School of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering
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