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Petros did his undergraduate studies (1987-92) at the Civil Engineering Department (CED) of the University of Patras, Greece. Then, he worked for a year (1992-93) at the CED in a research project on the nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete structures. He continued his studies with a Master of Science (1993-95) in the Structures and Materials Group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEED) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked on seismic isolation research. Then, he spent a year (1995-96) studying in the Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Program of the CEED at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused more in earthquake-resistant design. Subsequently, he returned to the CEED of MIT and completed Ph.D. studies (1996-2001) in Information Technology, where he concentrated in computer-aided engineering and information technology. After the completion of his Ph.D. studies he worked for two years in the Information Technology Division of Morgan Stanley.
He joined the University of Cyprus, at the rank of the Lecturer, in September of 2003, exactly when the CEE Department had accepted its first students. He was assigned solely responsible for the restructuring and improving of the Undergraduate Program of Studies and for the complete development (from a zero basis) and promotion of the Graduate Program of Studies of the CEE Department, adopting the ECTS system according to the Bologna Declaration in both programs of studies. He also served as the CEE Department's (one member) Undergraduate Studies Committee, the Graduate Studies Committee, Information Technology and Computing Committee, and Library Committee as the only member and coordinator (2003-2005). Furthermore, he represented the School of Engineering in the Senatorial Committee on Graduate Studies (2003-2005) of the University of Cyprus. During the 2005-2007 period he served on the Undergraduate Studies Committee, the Graduate Studies Committee, and the Information Technology and Computing Committee of the CEE Department, which have all become 3 member committees.
Petros has developed and taught 7 completely new courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels:
- CEE220 Structural Analysis
- CEE221 Matrix Structural Analysis
- CEE320 Structural Dynamics
- CEE325 Computer-Aided Structural Analysis
- CEE401 Software Development for Engineering Applications
- CEE500 Advanced Engineering Software Development
- CEE501 Advanced Computer-Aided Structural Analysis
The courses that he has been teaching include structural analysis, structural dynamics, computer-aided structural engineering, software development for engineering applications and information technology topics. He has also provided various independent studies (CEE492, CEE493, CEE650, and CEE651) for both undergraduate and graduate students.
His Ph.D. student Loizos Papaloizou completed (June 2009) his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, which is the first Ph.D. in Civil Engineering awarded in Cyprus and the first Ph.D. given by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. While, his second Ph.D. student, Paniayiotis Polycarpou, completed his Ph.D. in August 2009, being the second Ph.D. awarded in Civil Engineering in Cyprus and the second Ph.D., overall, given by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His Master of Science student, Eftychia Mavronicola, who has just completed (June 2009) her M.Sc .thesis, has been awarded by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus.
Research Interests
His research interests include the areas of structural analysis and dynamics, earthquake resistant design and analysis, seismic isolation, computer-aided structural engineering and utilization of information technology in engineering. Petros' publications record includes 3 technical books, 1 edited book, 1 book champter, 14 papers at the top peer-reviewed international scientific Journals, 38 papers in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings (with the entire body of each article reviewed), and 6 extended abstracts in refereed conference proceedings.
He has successfully completed the following two funded research projects:
(1) Earthquake-Induced Poundings of Seismically Isolated Structures (EIPOSIS)
(2) Investigation of the response and behavior of ancient columns and colonnades during strong earthquake excitations (KIONES).
He is the coordinator of two on-going funded research projects entitled:
(1) Three-dimensional numerical investigation of earthquake-induced poundings of buildings (3D-POUND)
(2) Investigation for the protection of ancient multi-drum columns and colonnades from strong earthquakes.
He has reviewed research papers for 11 international scientific journals and 13 international and world conferences, while he has served in the scientific or/and organizing committees of 14 international and world conferences.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
1. P. Komodromos, “Structural Analysis: Modern Computer-Aided Methods – Second Edition”, ISBN 960-7182-44-8 (978-960-7182-44-9), Academic textbook (752 pages textbook) that focuses on modern structural analysis methods with emphasis on computer-aided structural analysis, Papasotiriou A. E., Athens, Greece, January 2009 [in Greek] (used in at least 3 Greek Universities as a recommended textbook).
2. P. Komodromos, (2000), “Seismic Isolation for Earthquake Resistant Structures”, ISBN 1-85312-803-1, (201 pages book) Advances in Earthquake Engineering Series, WIT Press, Southampton, UK.
EDITED BOOKS
1. M. Phocas, C. Brebbia and P. Komodromos, (2009), “Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VII”, ISBN: 978-1-84564-180-1, ISSN (print): 1746-4498, ISSN (online): 1743-3509 (515 pages), WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, WIT Press, Southampton, UK.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. L. Papaloizou and P. Komodromos “Seismic Behaviour of Ancient Multidrum Structures”, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 2011, Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 21, pp. 237-264, ISBN 978-94-007-0052-9, Papadrakakis et al., Springer [Invited].
JOURNAL PAPERS
1. E. Mavronicola and P. Komodromos (2011), “Assessing the suitability of equivalent linear elastic analysis of seismically isolated multi-storey buildings”, Computers and Structures, Vol 89, Issues 21-22, pp 1920-1931.
2. L. Papaloizou and P. Komodromos (2011), “Investigating the seismic response of ancient mult-drum colonnades with two rows of columns using an object-oriented designed software” , Advances in Engineering Software [doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2011.05.030].
3. P. Polycarpou and P. Komodromos (2011), “Numerical investigation of potential mitigation measures for poundings of seismically isolated buildings”, Earthquakes and Structures, Vol. 2, No.1, March, 2011.
4. P. Polycarpou and P. Komodromos (2010) “Earthquake-induced poundings of a seismically isolated building with adjacent structures”, Engineering Structures, Special Issue: Learning from structural failures - Invited Paper, Vol. 32, pp. 1937-1951.
5. P. Polycarpou and P. Komodromos (2010) “On poundings of a seismically isolated building with adjacent structures during strong earthquakes", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Journal, Vol. 39, pp. 933-940 (Short Communication).
6. L. Papaloizou and P. Komodromos (2009), “Planar investigation of the seismic response of ancient columns and colonnades with epistyles using a custom-made software", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 29, Issues 11-12, pp. 1437-1454.
7. P. Komodromos (2008), “Simulation of the Earthquake-Induced Pounding of Seismically Isolated Buildings", Journal of Computers and Structures, Vol. 86, pp. 618-626.
8. P. Komodromos, L. Papaloizou and P. Polycarpou (2008), “Simulation of the Response of Ancient Columns Under Harmonic and Earthquake Excitations”, Engineering Structures Journal, Vol. 30, Issue 8, pp. 2154-2164.
9. P. Komodromos, P. Polycarpou, L. Papaloizou and M.C. Phocas (2007), “Response of Seismically Isolated Buildings Considering Poundings”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 1605-1622.
10. P. Komodromos (2005), "A simplified updated Lagrangian approach for combining discrete and finite element methods", Computational Mechanics, Volume 35, Number 4, pp.305–313.
11. P. Komodromos and J.R. Williams (2004), "Dynamic simulation of multiple deformable bodies using combined discrete and finite element methods", , Engineering Computations, Vol. 21 Number 2/3/4, Special Issue: The discrete element method: numerical modelling of discontinua, pp.431–448.
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