Gerasimidis Research Group
Stability of Structures and Materials
Gerasimidis Group
Stability of Structures and Materials
​NEWS & EVENTS​
NSF CAREER Award!
Posted May 15, 2021
Dr. Gerasimidis was awarded the NSF CAREER award to study auxetic lattice reinforcing metamaterial architectures for a new class of concrete metastructures!
New NSF Award!
Posted May 10, 2021
​​Dr. Gerasimidis was awarded an NSF grant to organize a workshop on metmaterials and metastructures for civil infrastructure!
Prof. Moussiopoulos visits our group in Amherst.
Posted July 5, 2018
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In late May we were very happy to host Prof. Moussiopoulos from the School of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at UMass.
Panos wins 1st place in Objective Resilience Student Competition at 2018 EMI! Congratulations Pano!
Posted July 5, 2018
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Panos received the award for work in the paper:
Towards an analytical resilience framework of steel and concrete composite buildings.
George presents our MassDOT funded work at 2018 EMI!
Posted July 5, 2018
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George presented the paper: Tzortzinis G., Knickle B., Bardow A., Gerasimidis S., Brena S., (2018), Deteriorated steel beam ends: Identification and selection of most common corrosion patterns, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Fani presents at 2018 EMI!
Posted July 5, 2018
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Fani presented the paper: Derveni F., Pantidis P., Gerasimidis S., Peterman K., (2018), A partial-distributed damage method for progressive collapse of 3D steel and concrete composite buildings, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kshitij presents at 2018 EMI!
Posted July 5, 2018
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Kshitij presented the paper:
Yadav K., Gerasimidis S., (2018), Imperfection insensitivity of wavy cross-sectional thin cylindrical shells under bending: Effect of cross section’s shape and curvature, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Welcome George and Fani to our group!
Posted September 5, 2017
We are happy to welcome two PhD students in our group. George Tzortzinis and Fani Derveni join our group in September 2017. George will work on the determination of residual load capacities in steel girder bridges under web end corrosion and Fani will study the stability of podium-type building structures.
Panos, Kshitij and Dr. Gerasimidis present at EMI2017 in San Diego, CA
Posted June 20, 2017
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Panos presents findings on the Progressive collapse response investigation of a 3D 20-story steel framed prototype building and Kshitij on the Imperfection sensitivity of tall wind turbine thin steel cylindrical shell towers. Dr. Gerasimidis made a presentation On the definition of resilience.
Panos work featured on Structural Stability Research Council webpage
Posted March 20, 2017
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Recent work by Panos on Loss-of-Stability vs Yielding-Type Collapse Mode in 3D Steel Structures Under a Column Removal Scenario: an Analytical Method of Assessing the Collapse Mode has been featured on SSRC.
Dr. Gerasimidis awarded the Greek Diaspora Fellowship
Posted December 20, 2016
Professor Symeon Gerasimidis from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected by The Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and collaborate with Professor Anastasios Sextos of that university’s Civil Engineering Department on a variety of challenging projects.