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George Frantziskonis received his civil engineering degree from the Aristotle University in Greece, in 1982 and his doctorate in engineering mechanics from the University of Arizona in 1986.  He joined the University of Arizona faculty in 1988 after a visiting position at Aristotle University and consulting for the industry. He is a registered professional civil engineer in the State of Arizona and in the European Union state members. His teaching interests and activities include contemporary, collaborative-style (flipped classroom), multimedia course delivery methods tailored to classroom-based, distance learning, and classes of large enrollment. He has taught numerous courses in the broad areas of civil, mechanical, aerospace, engineering mechanics, and engineering design. He has directed graduate students in civil engineering, engineering materials, and mechanical, aerospace engineering. Frantziskonis’s areas of research interests and activities include multi-and inter-disciplinary multiscale modeling, simulation, and experimentation, material characterization and applications, probabilistic and multiscale problem formulation and description and applications to safety and reliability, behavior of materials at nano-scale, reaction-diffusion-transport and reactive flow problems, smart materials at a multiplicity of scales. Applications include material characterization and modeling, response of materials to rare stochastic events, and reaction-diffusion-transport phenomena in energy production processes. He has published extensively in journals in the areas of (some journals where his work has been published are shown in parentheses), the diversity coming primarily from extending multiscale methods to several areas of science and engineering: Mechanics/Materials ( J. Solids & Structures, Acta Mechanica, Comp. Structures) Physics ( Rev. B, Phys. Rev. E, J. Phys. A, J. Phys. Cond. Matter) Civil Engineering (ASCE journals, & Geotechnics, Structural Control and Health Monitoring) Mechanical Engineering ( Mech. Rev., J. Comp.-aided Design) Materials Science and Engineering (Smart Mater. & Struct., Intelligent Mat. Systems, Mod. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., Comput. Matl. Sci.) Chemical Engineering ( J. Chem. React. Engr., Ultras. Sonochemistry, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Chemical Engineering Science) Computational Physics ( Comp. Phys., Chaos, Solitons and Fractals) Energy (Energy Conv. & Management) He holds a tenured professor appointment with the Civil and Architectural Engineering Mechanics Department and a courtesy appointment with the Material Science and Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. He has worked as visiting professor in France, Norway, and Greece, and has taught courses in France and Germany. He has also worked at Department of Defense laboratories for three summers. Awards he has received include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award and the Fulbright Scholar award.

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Courses
  • S
    Statics

  • PSCE
    Probability and Statistics in Civil Engineering

  • ETA
    Elasticity Theory and Application

  • MS
    Mechanics of Solids

Grants
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    Engineered Multifunctional Materials-Structures for Smart Inherent Acoustic Vibration Mitigation in Thrusters and Combustion Chambers and for Solid-State Smart Thermal Diodes for Energetics

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $150.7K
    Active
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    Optimization of Hierarchical Compressed Air Energy Storage Tanks for Adaptive Duration-Scalable Electric Power

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $71.5K
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    Multiscale Computational Modeling of Heterogeneous Catalysis Via Wavelet-Based Information Transfer Across Scales

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $32.6K
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    New, GK-12: Water and Energy Systems: The Key to the Future of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2010

    $2.9M
News
  • Squeezing Sustainable Energy From Thin Air

    2011

  • UA Engineers Get $2.7 Million to Teach High Schoolers About Water and Energy in Arid Areas

    2010

  • UA Boasts 5 New Fulbright Scholars, Visiting Scholars

    2001

Publications (153)
Recent
  • A partition and microstructure based method applicable to large-scale topology optimization

    2022

  • Development of Statistical Models for Porosity from Digital Optical Micrographs with Application to Metal Additive Manufacturing Microstructure

    2022

  • Reliability of Metal Additive Manufactured Materials from Modeling the Microstructure at Different Length Scales

    2022

  • Techno-economic assessment and design optimization of compressed air energy storage using filament wound CFRP pressure vessels

    2021

  • From atomic-scale to mesoscale: A characterization of geopolymer composites using molecular dynamics and peridynamics simulations

    2021

  • Design of Porous and Functionally Graded NiTi Smart Energy Absorbers Considering Synthetic Parametric Uncertainty

    2020

  • The effect of grain-size on fracture of polycrystalline silicon carbide: A multiscale analysis using a molecular dynamics-peridynamics framework

    2019

  • Brittle Fracture of Polycrystaline 3C-Sic: A Case Study Using Molecular Dynamics-Peridynamics Multiscale Models

    2019

  • Leak Detection in Plastic Water Supply Pipes with a High Signal-to-Noise Ratio Accelerometer

    2018

  • Effect of porosity on the stress-strain response and hysteretic energy dissipation capacity of NiTi SMA

    2018

  • Scale-parity Preserving Multiscale Models for Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Geopolymers

    2018

  • Atomistic simulation of shape memory effect (SME) and superelasticity (SE) in nano-porous NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA)

    2018

  • Atomic-scale dynamics and mechanical response of geopolymer binder under nanoindentation

    2018

  • Thermally modulated shape memory alloy friction pendulum (tmSMA-FP) for substantial near-fault earthquake structure protection

    2017

  • A computation study on the interplay between surface morphology and electrochemical performance of patterned thin film electrodes for Li-ion batteries

    2017

  • Evolution of internal strain in austenite phase during thermally induced martensitic phase transformation in NiTi shape memory alloys

    2017

  • Application of Wavelet-Based Methods for Accelerating Multi-Time-Scale Simulation of Bistable Heterogeneous Catalysis

    2017

  • Length scale effects and multiscale modeling of thermally induced phase transformation kinetics in NiTi SMA

    2017

  • Computational simulations for the development of novel solid-state smart NiTi-Al thermal diodes

    2017

  • The use of nanoindentation for determining internal lengths and the constitutive response of monument materials: models and experiments

    2016

  • Thermally Modulated Superelastic SMA Dampers for Vibration Control

    2016

  • Wavelet-based surrogate time series for multiscale simulation of heterogeneous catalysis

    2016

  • Linking simulations and experiments for the multiscale tracking of thermally induced martensitic phase transformation in NiTi SMA

    2016

  • Thermo-mechanical strain rate-dependent behavior of shape memory alloys as vibration dampers and comparison to conventional dampers

    2016

  • Atomistic study on size effects in thermally induced martensitic phase transformation of NiTi

    2016

  • Thermomechanical strain rate dependent behavior of SMAs as vibration dampers and comparison to conventional dampers

    2015

  • Erratum: Lattice Boltzmann method for multimode wave propagation in viscoelastic media and in elastic solids [Phys. Rev. E 83, 066703 (2011)]

    2014

  • Multiscale unified prediction of size/scale and Hall-Petch effects in the mechanics of polycrystalline materials

    2013

  • Multiscale/Multiphysics Modeling of Biomass Thermochemical Processes

    2013

  • Temporal scaling in fatigue life of materials and incorporation of temporal events in Paris’s law

    2013

  • Guidelines for the Efficient Sizing of Pressure Vessels for Compressed Air Energy Storage

    2013

  • Spectral characterization of the stochastically simulated vehicle queue on bridges

    2009

  • Time-parallel multiscale/multiphysics framework

    2009

  • COMPRESSED-AIR ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR STAND-ALONE OFF-GRID PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES

    2008

  • Wavelet-based spatial scaling of coupled reaction-diffusion fields

    2008

  • Time Parallel Scalable Multiphysics/Multiscale Framework

    2008

  • Heterogeneous solids .1. Analytical and numerical 1-D results on boundary effects

    2008

  • Dynamic compound wavelet matrix method for multiphysics and multiscale problems

    2008

  • Selection of domains for coarse and fine levels of description in mixed-potential simulations

    2006

  • DEGRADATION MECHANISMS IN BRITTLE MATERIALS INVESTIGATED BY ULTRASONIC-SCANNING

    2006

  • DIFFERENTIAL SETTLEMENTS OF STRUCTURES FOUNDED ON HETEROGENEOUS SOILS

    2006

  • Complementary entropy and wavelet analysis of drilling-ability data

    2003

  • HETEROGENEITY IN BRITTLE MATERIALS - STATISTICAL APPROACH AND RELATION TO FRACTURE PROPERTIES

    2003

  • The effects of stress concentrators on strength of materials at nanoscale: A molecular dynamics study

    2003

  • Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects, etc.-Wavelet-based spatial and temporal multiscaling: Bridging the atomistic and continuum space and time scales

    2003

  • Wavelet-based analysis of multiscale phenomena-application to material porosity and identification of dominant scales. Prob Eng Mech,(this issue). PII: S 0266-8920 (02) 00032-2

    2002

  • Guidelines for the pressure and efficient sizing of pressure vessels for compressed air energy storage

    2002

  • 8 ON THE RELATION BETWEEN FRACTURE SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES

    2002

  • Wavelet-based spatial and temporal multiscaling: Bridging the atomistic and continuum space and time scales

    2002

  • Lattice Boltzmann method for multimode wave propagation in viscoelastic media and in elastic solids (vol 83, 066703, 2011)

    2001

  • Size effects on tensile strength and fracture energy in concrete: wavelet vs. fractal approach

    2001

  • Characterization of materials with pores and inclusions at diverse scales

    2001

  • Statistical Aspects of Gradient Theory

    2001

  • Compound Wavelet Matrix for Bridging Simulations at Complementary Scales-Application to Microstructure Evolution

    2000

  • Wavelet methods for analysing and bridging simulations at complementary scales-the compound wavelet matrix and application to microstructure evolution

    2000

  • Surface effects at the nanoscale significantly reduce the effects of stress concentrators

    2000

  • Multiscale Wavelet-Based Analysis and Characterization of Fretting Fatigue Damage in Titanium Alloys

    1999

  • Wavelet based spatial scaling of coupled reaction diffusion fields

    1999

  • On the stochastic interpretation of gradient-dependent constitutive equations

    1999

  • Probabilities and materials

    1998

  • HETEROGENEITY AND IMPLICATED SURFACE EFFECTS - STATISTICAL, FRACTAL FORMULATION AND RELEVANT ANALYTICAL SOLUTION

    1998

  • Experimental evidence for the existence of absolute acoustic band gaps in two-dimensional periodic composite media

    1998

  • Scale-dependent constitutive relations and the role of scale on nominal properties

    1998

  • Stochastic modeling of heterogeneous materials--a process for the analysis and evaluation of alternative formulations

    1998

  • NATO✍✍ ARW-960993

    1997

  • Spatiotemporal compound wavelet matrix framework for multiscale/multiphysics reactor simulation: Case study of a heterogeneous reaction/diffusion system

    1997

  • Heterogeneous solids .2. Numerical 2-D results on boundary and other relevant phenomena

    1997

  • Heterogeneous materials—Scaling phenomena relevant to fracture and to fracture toughness

    1997

  • Optical Nondestructive Evaluation of Fretting in Titanium Turbine Engine Fan Disks

    1997

  • Heterogeneous solids - Part I: Analytical and numerical 1-D results on boundary effects

    1997

  • Lattice Boltzmann method for multimode wave propagation in viscoelastic media and in elastic solids

    1997

  • Heterogeneous solids - Part II: Numerical 2-D results on boundary and other relevant phenomena

    1997

  • Modeling of granular materials: A numerical model using lattices

    1997

  • Stochastic approaches for damage evolution in standard and non-standard continua

    1996

  • HYGROTHERMAL DEGRADATION IN GLASS EPOXY - EVALUATION VIA STRESS WAVE FACTORS

    1996

  • Wavelet-based multiscaling in self-affine random media

    1996

  • Multiscale material characterization and applications

    1996

  • ON THE STRENGTH RELIABILITY OF STATISTICALLY HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS WITH MICROSTRUCTURE AT DIVERSE SCALES

    1996

  • Multifractal fracture-toughness properties of brittle heterogeneous materials

    1996

  • Dissipated Energy as a Fundtion of Material Microstructure: Towards Optimum Fracture Toughness

    1996

  • Dissipated energy as a function of material microstructure

    1996

  • Heterogeneity and implicated surface effects: statistical, fractal formulation and relevant analytical solution

    1995

  • Scale dependent constitutive relations-information from wavelet analysis and application to localization problems

    1995

  • Multiscale characterization of pitting corrosion and application to an aluminum alloy

    1995

  • Hygrothermal degradation in glass/epoxy—evaluation via stress wave factors

    1995

  • SCALE-DEPENDENT CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS - INFORMATION FROM WAVELET ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION TO LOCALIZATION PROBLEMS

    1995

  • Modeling of granular materials - A numerical model using lattices

    1995

  • Modeling the coupling of reaction kinetics and hydrodynamics in a collapsing cavity

    1994

  • Research note on the equivalence of isotropic damage mechanics and plasticity

    1994

  • Wavelet analysis of fretting experimental data

    1994

  • On the possibly multifractal properties of dissipated energy in brittle materials

    1994

  • Modelling of semi-brittle MgO ceramic behaviour under compression T. Sadowski 1 On the prediction of interfacial behavior in fiber-reinforced composites using a new contact element Mallikarjuna and M. Fafard 17

    1994

  • Mechanics of particulate media-A lattice type approach

    1994

  • On scaling phenomena in fracture of heterogeneous solids

    1994

  • Fiber-matrix interface - information from experiments via simulation

    1994

  • Stochastic modeling of heterogeneous materials - A process for the analysis and evaluation of alternative formulations

    1994

  • Heterogeneity and Its Implications--Micromechanical, Statistical, Fractal Approach and Their Similarity

    1993

  • Practical optical characterization of fretted surfaces

    1993

  • Micro-structure in kinematic-hardening plasticity

    1992

  • Surface effects in brittle materials and internal length estimation

    1992

  • Multiscale characterization of materials with distributed pores and inclusions and application to crack formation in an aluminum alloy

    1992

  • Edge delamination in laminated composites

    1992

  • Heterogeneity, microstructural surface effects and internal length estimation

    1992

  • Shape memory alloy fracture as a deployment actuator

    1992

  • Wavelet-based spatiotemporal multiscaling in diffusion problems with chemically reactive boundary

    1992

  • Degradation mechanisms in brittle materials investigated by ultrasonic scanning

    1992

  • Heterogeneous materials-scaling phenomena relevant to fracture and to fracture toughness

    1992

  • Instabilities of damage and surface degradation mechanisms in brittle material structural systems(Final Report, 1 Jul. 1989- 31 Dec. 1991)

    1992

  • Random Initial Heterogeneity and Degradation in Brittle Materials

    1992

  • Mechanics of Reservoir Rocks, Theory and Verification

    1992

  • Damage evolution in laminated advanced composites

    1991

  • Surface degradation mechanisms in brittle material structural systems

    1991

  • Constitutive behavior of granular media using a lattice type model

    1991

  • Influence of soil variability on differential settlements of structures

    1991

  • Article cit\'e par

    1991

  • Wavelet methods for analysing and bridging simulations at complementary scales - the compound wavelet matrix and application to microstructure evolution

    1991

  • HETEROGENEITY, SPATIAL CORRELATIONS, SIZE EFFECTS AND DISSIPATED ENERGY IN BRITTLE MATERIALS

    1991

  • Random initial inhomogeneity in brittle materials

    1991

  • Degradation instabilities in brittle material structural systems

    1990

  • Damage evolution and constitutive behavior of advanced composites

    1990

  • Degradation instabilities in brittle material structures

    1990

  • Characterization of pitting corrosion damage through multiscale analysis

    1990

  • Damage and free edge effects in laminated composites. Energy and stability propositions

    1989

  • MICROSTRUCTURE IN KINEMATIC-HARDENING PLASTICITY

    1989

  • Mechanics of tectonic faulting, G. Mandl, Developments in Structural Geology Vol. 1 (Series Editor HJ Zwart), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988. No. of pages: 407. Price US $79.00/Dfl. 150.00. ISBN 0-444-42946-8

    1989

  • Development of construction materials like concrete from lunar soils without water

    1989

  • HETEROGENEITY AND DEGRADATION IN BRITTLE MATERIALS

    1988

  • Distributed damage in composites, theory and verification

    1988

  • DAMAGE AND FREE EDGE EFFECTS IN LAMINATED COMPOSITES - ENERGY AND STABILITY PROPOSITIONS

    1988

  • Damage and edge delamination in composites

    1988

  • Paper: ANALYSIS OF A STRAIN SOFTENING CONSTITUTIVE MODEL

    1987

  • Analysis of a strain softening constitutive model

    1987

  • Paper: CONSTITUTIVE MODEL WITH STRAIN SOFTENING

    1987

  • Elastoplastic model with damage for strain softening geomaterials

    1987

  • Constitutive model with strain softening

    1987

  • A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH FOR CONSTITUTIVE MODELING OF GEOLOGIC MATERIALS

    1987

  • Wavelet-based analysis of multiscale phenomena: application to material porosity and identification of dominant scales

    1987

  • Hierach al approach for constitutive mode\~ ng of geologic material

    1986

  • A lattice type model for particulate media

    1986

  • Constitutive model for nonassociative behavior

    1986

  • CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR NONASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOR.

    1986

  • HIERARCHICAL APPROACH FOR CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING OF GEOLOGIC MATERIALS.

    1986

  • PROGRESSIVE DAMAGE AND CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOR OF GEOMATERIALS INCLUDING ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION.

    1986

  • Paper: CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR NONASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR

    1986

  • ANALYSIS OF PIN LOADING OF CARBON/EPOXY PLATES.

    1986

  • HETEROGENEITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS - MICROMECHANICAL, STATISTICAL, FRACTAL APPROACH AND THEIR SIMILARITY

    1986

  • A hierarchical approach for constitutive modelling of geologic materials

    1986

  • CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING FOR GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS.

    1985

  • Constitutive modelling for geological materials

    1985

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