Andreas P. Christoforou

Education

Degree	Field	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	Mechanical	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA	Jun, 1988
M.Sc.	Mechanical	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA	Dec, 1984
B.Sc.	Mechanical	University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA	Jun, 1982

Research Interests

Contact laws/elastoplastic material models, Analytical and Experimental impact dynamics of composite structures, Damage assessment in composite laminates, Scaling and control of impact in structures, Dynamics of oilwell drill strings, Smart structures/control and identification,Engineering Education/assessment and curriculum development

Selected Publications

Selected Conference Publications

Ninth EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space, September 3-6, 2019, Athens, Greece: Session co-organizer.
Twelfth International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, ICCST/12, May 8-10, 2019, Sorrento, Naples, Italy: Member of the Scientific Committee.
Modeling and Control of Stick Slip and Bit Bounce in Oil Well Drill Strings, Paper No. SPE-178160-MS, SPE/IADC Middle East Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition, , Abu Dhabi, UAE, Jan, 2016
Eleventh International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, ICCST/11, April 4-6, 2017, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE: Member on the International Advisory Board.
Impact Dynamics and Damage in Composite Structures Scaling and Design Challenges, Second Composite Materials Forum, , Abu Dhabi, UAE, May, 2014

Selected Journal Publications

Christoforou, A.P., and Yigit. A.S., “The characterization of impact dynamics in aerospace structures – the case of deformable impactors,” 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Air and Space Technologies (RAST2023), Istanbul, Turkey, June 7-9, 2023.
Christoforou, A.P., and Yigit. A.S., “Dynamic response and damage characterization of impact in composite structures through non-dimensional parameters,” EASN19 – 9th International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space, Athens, Greece, 3–6 September 2019.
Siorikis, D.K., Rekatsinas, C.S., Nastos, C.V, Chrysochoidis, N.A., Christoforou, A.P., Yigit, A.S., and Saravanos, D.A., “Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Hailstone Impact on Composite Plates,” COMPDYN 2019, 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis (eds.), Crete, Greece, 24-26 June 2019.
Rekatsinas, C.S., Siorikis, D.K., Christoforou, A.P., Chrysochoidis, N.A., and Saravanos, D.A., “Analysis of Low Velocity Impacts on Sandwich Composite Plates using Cubic Spline Layerwise Theory and Semi Empirical Contact Law”, Composite Structures, 2018, Vol. 168, pp. 646-656.
Siorikis, D.K., Rekatsinas, C.S., Christoforou, A.P., and Saravanos, D.A., “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Contact Laws for the Rapid Simulation of Low-Energy Impacts on Laminated Composite Plates”, Composite Structures, 2017, Vol. 168, pp. 646-656.

Work Experience

Academic Experience

Institution	Designation	Year/Period
Kuwait University, Department of Mechanical Engineering	Professor	Dec, 2002 - Present
University of Patras, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics	Visiting Associate Professor	May, 1999 - Jan, 2000
Kuwait University, Department of Mechanical Engineering	Associate Professor	Feb, 1995 - Dec, 2002
Kuwait University, Department of Mechanical Engineering	Assistant Professor	Sep, 1989 - Feb, 1995
University of Utah, College of Engineering	Teaching Assistant	Sep, 1982 - Jun, 1986
Universityof Utah, SLC, UT, Mechanics of Composites Laboratory	Research Assistant	Jun, 1982 - Jun, 1988

Industry Experience

Organization	Designation	Year/Period
NRC/NASA Research Associate	NASA Lewis Research Center, Materials and Structures Division, Cleveland, OH, USA	Jun, 1988 - Jun, 1989

Full CV

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