Elias C. Aifantis

Contact

mom@mtu.edu

Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering

PhD, University of Minnesota

Biography

Currently 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.

Areas of Expertise

Mechanics and Materials Science

Research Interests

Porosity/Diffusivity theory
Dislocation patterning
Strain gradient theory
Material instabilities
Nanomechanics

Select Publications

H. M. Zbib and E. C. Aifantis, Size Effects and Length Scales in Gradient Plasticity and Dislocation Dynamics, Scripta Mat, 48, 155-160, 2003
E.C. Aifantis, Update on a class of gradient theories, Mechanics of Materials, 35, 259-280, 2003
I. Tsagrakis, A. Konstantinidis and E.C. Aifantis, Strain gradient and wavelet interpretation of size effects in yield and strength, Mechanics of Materials, 35, 733-745, 2003
T. Ioannidou, J. Pouget and E.C. Aifantis, Soliton dynamics in a 2D lattice model with nonlinear interactions, J. Physics A: Math. Gen, 36, 643-652, 2003
D.J. Unger and E.C. Aifantis, New Class of Solutions of the Reduced Wave Equation Applicable to Crack Problems Related to Gradient Elasticity, Facta Universitatis, 3, 599-612, 2003
C. di Prisco, S. Imposimato, and E.C. Aifantis, A visco-plastic constitutive model for granular soils modified according to non-local and gradient approaches, Int. J. Num. Anal. Meth. Geomech, 26, 121-138, 2002
G. Frantziskonis and E.C. Aifantis, On the stochastic interpretation of gradient-dependent constitutive equations, Eur. J. Mech. A/Solids, 21, 589-596, 2002