Selected Publications
Selected Conference Publications
- 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
- Impact Dynamics and Damage in Composite Structures Scaling and Design Challenges, Second Composite Materials Forum, , Abu Dhabi, UAE, May, 2014
- Impact Characterization Diagram for Damage Resistance/Tolerance in Composite Structures, ICCST/9, Ninth International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, , Sorrento, Italy, Apr, 2013
- Low-Velocity Impact Response of Structures with Local Plastic Deformation Implications for Design, 1st Biennial International Conference on Dynamics for Design, (DFD), Chicago, Illinois, USA, Aug, 2012
- Modeling and Analysis of Elastoplastic Impacts on Supported Composites, ICCST8, 8th International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mar, 2011
Selected Journal Publications
- 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.
- Christoforou, A.P., and Yigit, A.S., “Inelastic Impact and the Coefficient of Restitution”, Journal of Engineering Research, 2016, Vol. 4, No. (4), pp. 216-235.
- Christoforou A.P., Yigit A.S and Majeed A.M, “Low-Velocity Impact Response of Structures with Local Plastic Deformation Characterization and Scaling”, ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 2013, Vol. 8, 011012-1, 011012-10.
- Majeed A.M.,Yigit A.S and Christoforou A.P, “Elastoplastic Contact/Impact of Rigidly Supported Composite Structures”, Composites Part B Engineering, 2012, Vol. 43, pp. 1244-1251.
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