DANIEL VASILIKIS
SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: 30th January, 1984
Place of Birth: Rhodes, Greece
Nationality: Greek
Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Thessaly,
Pedion Areos, Volos 38334, Greece
Phones: +30-6974208791, +30-2421074063
Fax: +30-2421074012
Email:
EDUCATION
July 2006: Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (5-year professional degree), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Finite Element Analysis and Buckling of Tight-Fit-Pipes under External Pressure”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.
March 2008: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Μ.Sc.), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.
January 2013: Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Structural Behavior and Stability of Cylindrical Steel Shells with Lateral Confinement”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.
RESEARCH
Research Interests: Computational Mechanics, Structural Stability, Analysis and Design of Shells, Finite Element, Inelastic Behavior of Materials and Structures.
Participation in Research Projects:
§ Prefabricated steel structures for low-rise buildings in seismic areas – PRECASTEEL. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2007-00038, duration: July 2007 – June 2010.
§ Steel solutions for seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing constructions – STEELRETRO. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2007-00050, duration: July 2007 – June 2010.
§ Structural safety of industrial steel tanks, pressure vessels and piping systems under seismic loading – INDUSE. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2009-00022, duration: July 2009 – December 2012.
§ Bending resistance of steel tubes in combiwalls – COMBITUBE. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2011-00034, duration: July 2011 – June 2014.
PUBLICATIONS
Publications in International Journals
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 21-32, January 2009.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 133, No. 1, Paper Number: 011205, February 2011.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Mechanical Behavior and Wrinkling of Lined Pipes”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 49, No. 23-24, pp. 3432-3446, November 2012.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Mechanics of Confined Thin-Walled Cylinders Subjected to External Pressure”, ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews, Special Issue, Invited Paper, under review.
Publications in Conferences
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Unconfined and Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, ASCE Pipelines Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2008.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP2009-77216, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009. [3rd Prize in Student Paper Competition, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP2009), Prague, Czech Rep.]
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Double-Wall Elastic Tubes under Bending”, 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, July 2010.
§ Pappa, P., Vasilikis, D., Vazouras, P., and Karamanos, S.A., “On the Seismic Behavior and Design of Liquid Storage Tanks”, COMPDYN 2011 Conference, Corfu, Greece, May 2011.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Clad Pipes under Bending and External Pressure”, 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ASME, OMAE2011-49470, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2011.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Numerical Simulation of Clad Pipe Structural Behavior under Bending Loading”, 7th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure”, 7th National Conference on Metal Structures, Volos, Greece, September 2011.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Wrinkling of Lined Pipes under Bending”, 22nd International Conference on Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering, ISOPE2012-TCP-0748, Rhodes, Greece, June 2012.
§ Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Wrinkling of Lined Steel Pipes under Bending”, 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ASME, OMAE2013-11122, Nantes, France, June 2013, under publication.
Publications in ASCE Manuals of Practice (MoP)
§ American Society of Civil Engineers, “Buried Flexible Steel Pipe. Design and Structural Analysis”, ASCE Manuals & Reports for Engineering Practice, No. 119, 2009.
§ American Society of Civil Engineers, “Design of Steel Penstocks”, ASCE Manuals & Reports for Engineering Practice, No. 79, Second Edition, 2012.
Theses – Dissertations
§ Vasilikis, D. “Finite Element Analysis and Buckling of Tight-Fit-Pipes under External Pressure”, Diploma Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, July 2006.
§ Vasilikis, D. “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, February 2008.
§ Vasilikis, D. “Structural Behavior and Stability of Cylindrical Steel Shells with Lateral Confinement”, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, January 2013.
AWARDS
§ From the Technical Chamber of Greece for graduating third of my class from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly.
§ Third award in the 17th Annual ASME PVPD Ph.D. Student Paper Competition, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009.
§ G.E.O. Widera Literature Award for co-authoring the Outstanding Technical Paper entitled “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure” published in 2011 in the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology.
§ Invited paper in 2013 Special Issue of ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews and Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology for Pressure Vessel Technology.
OTHER ACTIVITIES – PARTICIPATIONS
Member of Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)
Reviewer in the International Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (JPVT)
Reviewer in the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE)