26. October 2025
Congratulations to QuAID3 researcher Ioulia Chrysikou who just won the Best Presentation Award for her talk on " Phase Field Fracture in thin fabric composites via an adaptive scaled boundary finite element method " presented at the 7th Workshop on Recent Progress of Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method !
24. October 2025
George and Ioulia, researchers of our QuAID3 project travel to Dalian, China to participate in the 7th Workshop on Recent Progress of Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method!
01. September 2025
We are now in Barcelona for the COMPLAS XVIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. QuAID3 participates with a mini-symposium on Digital Twinning and two presentations by Ioulia Chrysikou, and George Litainas!
19. June 2025
QuAID3 moves on to beautiful Rhodes for the 1st Hellenic-Italian Conference on Computational Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechanics of Materials! Ioulia Chrysikou, and George Litainas present their recent developments on accelerating taxing procedures in all things fracture!
27. May 2025
Thrilled to visit the Faculty of Engineering at Oxford University to deliver a lecture on Resolving Fractures on engineered materials over polytope meshes.
15. May 2025
EngLab@NTUA hosted Professor Zhilu Lai from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, delivering an exciting lecture on optimising the performance of Physics Informed Neural Networks
23. April 2025
QuAID3 is at Vienna for the 2025 FraMCoS XII - Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures! George Pissas, Ioulia Chrysikou, and George Litainas present their recent developments on composite fractures!
22. November 2024
QuAID3 travels to China! Very excited to give two invited lectures at Hohai University, Nanjing and at the 2024 Workshop on SBFEM at Nanchang.
29. May 2024
QuAID3 is at Madrid! George Pissas presents his work on fracture modelling for 3d printed componets at the 19th European Mechanics of Materials Conference.
12. February 2024
Openings: Two posts are available within our QuAID3 project. See our Vacancies page for details.
05. December 2023
QuAID3 is up and running!
12. September 2023
AI2AM at the 2023 Researcher’s night @NTUA! Looking forward to exchanging our insights on additively manufactured composites!
12. September 2023
Happy to share that I have just been promoted to Associate Professor @NTUA in Future Materials and Structures.
05. September 2023
AI2AM goes to Barcelona! Looking forward to giving a talk on phase field fractures for additively manufactured composites at Complas 2023 on the 7th of September.
10. August 2023
AI2AM research just published! Bond behaviour of light and heavy carbon fibre TRM to masonry interfaces at JCBldM !
20. June 2023
AI2AM research just published! Wave impact on rigid and flexible plates at Coastal Engineering !
03. December 2022
AI2AM goes virtual! Looking forward to giving a talk on nonlinear phase field fractures using the SBFEM at the 4th Workshop on Scaled Boundary Finite Element Methods.
13. November 2022
AI2AM research just published! Resolving vibro-acoustics in poroelastic media via a multiscale virtual element method at IJNME !
13. October 2022
Just published! Condensed finite element scheme for symmetric multi-layer structures including dilatational motion at JSV !
22. September 2021
Just published! MPeat—A fully coupled mechanical-ecohydrological model of peatland development at Ecohydrology !
15. September 2021
Just published! Virtual elements for sound propagation in complex poroelastic media at Computational Mechanics !
01. September 2021
New project kick-start! Artificial Intelligence driven topology optimisation of Additively Manufactured Composite Components is a two year project funded by the EC under the Horizon 2020 MSC Action.
12. July 2021
Just published! A numerical investigation of tsunamis impacting dams at Coastal Engineering !
02. June 2021
Congratulations are in order for Udit who just succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Damage modelling in fibre-reinforced composite laminates using phase field approach.
01. February 2021
New project kick-start! Uncertainty Quantification of fracture across multiple scales – a Machine Learning paradigm is a two year project funded by the NTUA.
15. December 2020
Just published! Multiscale VEM poromechanics at Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering !
15. November 2020
Just published! Quasi-brittle fractures for laminated composites at Composite Structures !
02. November 2020
Funding alert! Royal Sociaty International Exchanges project on Strength enhancement of large-scale concrete bridge members subjected to corrosion and repeated mechanical damage in collaboration with Dr. Samir Dirar Birmingham Uni !
15. March 2020
Strenthening using composites against progressive collapse at Engineering Structures !
14. December 2019
Speeding up phase field fractures at Int. J. Num. Methods in Eng. !
13. December 2019
Our first paper from NTUA on multiscale VEM is now online at Int. J. Num. Methods in Eng. !
04. December 2019
New website up and running!