Plenary – Keynote Lectures

PLENARY - ΚEYNOTE LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  • “Warping Shear Stresses in Nonuniform Torsion in Bridge Decks of Materials in Contact by BEM”, 2nd MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, June 17-20, 2003 (keynote lecture).
  • “Warping and Shear Deformation Effects in Static and Dynamic Analysis of 3-D Beam Elements”, 2006 IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Continuum Mechanics (CM’06), Chalkida, Evia Island, Greece, 11-13 May, 2006 (keynote lecture).
  • “Dynamic Analysis of Plates Stiffened by Parallel Beams”, Sixth International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures ERES, Bologna, Italy, 11 – 13 June, 2007 (keynote lecture).
  • “Shear Deformation Effect in Flexural-Torsional Vibrations of Beams by BEM”, Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, COMPDYN 2007, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 13-15 June, 2007 (keynote lecture).
  • “Dynamic Analysis of Shear Deformable Plates Stiffened by Parallel Beams”, Seventh International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures ERES09, Limassol, Cyprus, 11 – 13 May, 2009 (keynote lecture).
  • “Nonlinear Dynamic Analysisof Shear Deformable Beam-Columns on Nonlinear Two-Parameter Viscoelastic Foundation”, IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics – ECCM 2010, Paris, France, 16 – 21 May, 2010 (keynote lecture).
  • “Recent Developments in the Analysis of Stiffened Plates”, The Thirteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing CC2011, Chania, Crete, Greece, 06-09 September, 2011 (keynote lecture).
  • “Nonlinear Vibrations of Piles in Viscoelastic Foundation”, Eighth International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures, ERES2011, Chianciano Terme, Italy, 07-09 September, 2011 (keynote lecture).
  • “Seismic Soil-Pile Kinematic and Inertia Interaction — 3D versus Beam Modeling”, Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering – COMPDYN 2013, Kos Island, Greece, 12-14 June, 2013 (keynote lecture).
  • “Recent Developments in Nonlinear Flexural-Torsional Dynamic Analysis of Beams”, The Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing CC2013, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, 03-06 September, 2013 (keynote lecture).
  • “Advanced Beam Element for the Analysis of Engineering Structures”, 15th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Meshless Techniques, Florence (Firenze), Italy, 15-17 July, 2014 (plenary lecture).
  • “Boundary Element Formulation for the Inelastic Dynamic Analysis of Beams”, 11th World Conference on Computational Mechanics WCCM XI – 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics ECCM V, Barcelona, Spain, 20-25 July, 2014 (keynote lecture).
  • “Generalized Warping Effect in the Dynamic Analysis of Beams of Arbitrary Cross Section”, 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering COMPDYN 2015, Crete, Greece, 25-27 May, 2015 (keynote lecture).
  • “Developments in the Analysis of Spatial Framed Structures”, The Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing CC2015, Prague, Czech Republic, 01-04 September, 2015 (keynote lecture).
  • “Advanced Beam Element vs. 3–D Models in Dynamic Analysis of Structures”, 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems ICOVP-2015, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 14-17 December, 2015 (keynote lecture).
  • “A Fibre Plasticity Model for the Dynamic Analysis of Wind Turbine Towers”, 7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2016), Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 05-10 June, 2016 (keynote lecture).
  • “Higher Order Beam Theories and Isogeometric Methods in the Analysis of Curved Bridges”, 1st International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure ICONHIC2016, Chania, Crete, Greece, 28-30 June, 2016 (keynote lecture).
  • “Pre- and Post- Buckling Analysis of Beams Employing Higher Order Beam Theories”, The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology CST2018, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 4-6 September, 2018 (keynote lecture).
  • “Negative Stiffness Elements in Seismic Isolation of Bridges”, 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure ICONHIC 2019, Crete, Greece, 23-26 June, 2019 (keynote lecture).
  • “Frequency Based Design of the KDampr Concept for Seismic Isolation of Bridges”, 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems ICOVP 2019, Crete, Greece, 01-04 September, 2019 (keynote lecture).
  • “Higher Order Beam Theory in Local Buckling Analysis of Laterally Braced Beams”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems ICOVP 2019, Crete, Greece, 01-04 September, 2019 (keynote lecture).
  • “Vibration Mitigation Performance of On- and Off- shore Wind Turbine Towers”, 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure ICONHIC2022, Athens, Greece, 05-07 July, 2022 (keynote lecture).
  • “Hybrid Learning: An Integrative Approach Merging Theoretical Background and Market-driven Orientation”, Annual International Academic Meetings of the Science and Engineering Divisions, Athens Institute for Education and Research, A World Association of Academics and Researchers, 17-20 July, 2023 (invited lecture). 
  • “Realization of Negative Stiffness – Based Devices for Horizontal and Vertical Seismic Protection of Structures”, Global Congress on Civil, Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering GCCIVIL2023, Dubai, United Arabic Emirates, 23-25 October, 2023 (plenary lecture).