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Research
Interests
Currently directing the MTU Research Center for the
Mechanics of Materials and Instabilities. Also directing the Laboratory
of Mechanics of AUT and coordinating an EU-TMR Network on “Spatio-Temporal
Instabilities in Deformation and Fracture” involving seven
European laboratories through Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has published more than 300 papers in the areas of mechanics
and materials. Several of these publications helped to identify
and establish research areas such as double porosity/diffusivity
theory, dislocation patterning, strain gradient theory, material
instabilities, and nanomechanics. He has edited five books, organized
numerous international symposia and conferences, and been invited
to present his research on more than 200 occasions. He is co-editor
of the Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Materials, serves
on the Advisory Board of the International Journal for Numerical
and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, and has served on the
Advisory Board of the Journal of Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional
Materials and Acta Mechanica. His research and academic
activities have been supported by NSF/ARMY/AFOSR/ of US, as well
as by the Commission of European Communities of EU.
Publications
- Aifantis,
E. C., “Gradient deformation models at nano, micro, and macroscales,”
J. Eng. Mater. Tech. 121, 189-202, 1999.
- Aifantis,
E. C., “Strain gradient interpretation of size effects,”
Int. J. Fract. 95, 229-314, 1999.
- Gurkin,
M. Yu. and Aifantis, E. C., “Dislocations in the theory of
gradient elasticity,” Scripta Mater. 40, 559-66, 1999.
- Konstantinidis,
D. A. and Aifantis, E.C., “Further experimental evidence
of the double diffusivity model,” Sripta Mater. 40,
1235-41, 1999.
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