Ioannis Vayas
Professor
Prof. I. Vayas is
graduate from the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical
University in Athens (1976), Dr.-Ing. of the Technical University of
Braunschweig (1981) Germany and Welding Engineer of SLV Hannover. He
holds a honorary doctorate from the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
He teaches design of steel structures, composite steel-concrete
structures and design of steel and composite bridges. He is author of 9
books in Greek, 3 in German and one in English, all from renowned
Publishers.
He is author of 60
papers in International Journals and around 100 papers in international
Conference Proceedings. He participated as scientific responsible in
numerous (30) basic and applied research projects on seismic behavior
and design of steel structures, analysis and design of composite
bridges, masts and towers for telecommunications, assessment and seismic
strengthening of historical buildings and monuments, behavior and design
of sandwich panels, analysis and design of composite slabs etc. with
major funding from the EU, various companies and the Greek Ministry of
Science and Technology.
He designed numerous projects that include, among others, various steel
structures, buildings, composite bridges, cut-and cover tunnels, towers
and masts and served as expert on the causes of structural failures. He
has worked on drafting panels for National and International
regulations, like for Eurocode 3, where he serves as national
representative of Greece.
From 2011 he serves as Director of the Institute of Steel Structures at NTUA.
Contact:
tel.: +30 210 772 1054
fax: +30 210 772 3510
e-mail: vastahl@central.ntua.gr