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Academy of Athens awarded Researchers of FORTH/ICE-HT


On December 28, 2007, the Awards of the Academy of Athens were given during its annual formal session.

Dr. Demosthenes Polyzos, Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras and Collaborating Faculty Member of FORTH/ICE-HT, as a member of a research group which included also Mr. G. Karlis, graduate student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras and Dr. D. Beskos, Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, was honored by the “P. Theocaris Award” of the Academy of Athens for the best publications in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in international journals, which are the following:

G. F. Karlis, S. V. Tsinopoulos, D. Polyzos and D. E. Beskos
Boundary element analysis of mode I and mixed mode (I & II) crack problems of 2-D gradient elasticity“,
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 196, pp. 5092-5103, 2007.

G. F. Karlis, S. V. Tsinopoulos, D. Polyzos and D. E. Beskos
Numerical determination of crack stress and deformation fields in gradient elastic solids“,
In: Combescure A., De Borst R., Belytschko T. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods for Evolving Discontinuities. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007.