Dr Dimitris Karamitros
MSc(Greece), PhD(Greece)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
- Constitutive modelling of the monotonic and cyclic behavior of non-cohesive soils.
- Numerical implementation of user-defined models in 2-d and 3-d explicit finite difference codes.
- Fully-coupled effective-stress dynamic analysis of liquefaction-related problems.
- Performance-based design of shallow foundations on liquefiable sand.
- Seismic design of buried steel pipelines.
- Seismic ground response.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8035 EPSRC GLOBAL CHALLENGES 2016
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/08/2016
Thesis supervisions
Macro-element modelling of plate anchors for floating offshore structures accounting for capacity changes during operational conditions
Supervisors
Advanced numerical modelling of the cyclic/dynamic response of offshore structures in inhomogeneous non-cohesive soils
Supervisors
Non-linear dynamic analysis of shallow foundations
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/03/2013Seismic settlements of shallow foundations on liquefiable soil with a clay crust
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Numerical analysis of liquefaction-induced bearing capacity degradation of shallow foundations on a two-layered soil profile
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Insight into the seismic liquefaction performance of shallow foundations
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
An analytical method for strength verification of buried steel pipelines at normal fault crossings
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Stress analysis of buried steel pipelines at strike-slip fault crossings
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Recent publications
01/08/2024Review of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Models
Earthquake Resistant Design, Protection, and Performance Assessment in Earthquake Engineering
Effects of Soil-Wall Separation on Static Earth Pressures
A cyclic macro-element framework for consolidation-dependent three-dimensional capacity of plate anchors
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
A non-associative macro-element model for vertical plate anchors in clay
Canadian Geotechnical Journal
Integral abutment bridges
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics