Dr Dimitris Karamitros
MSc(Greece), PhD(Greece)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
- Constitutive modelling of the monotonic and cyclic behavior of non-cohesive soils.
- Numerical implementation of user-defined models in 2-d and 3-d explicit finite difference codes.
- Fully-coupled effective-stress dynamic analysis of liquefaction-related problems.
- Performance-based design of shallow foundations on liquefiable sand.
- Seismic design of buried steel pipelines.
- Seismic ground response.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8035 EPSRC GLOBAL CHALLENGES 2016
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/08/2016
Thesis supervisions
Analytical And Numerical Design of Buried Pipelines with Flexible Joints
Supervisors
Macro-element modelling of plate anchors for floating offshore structures accounting for capacity changes during operational conditions
Supervisors
Advanced numerical modelling of the cyclic/dynamic response of offshore structures in inhomogeneous non-cohesive soils
Supervisors
Non-linear dynamic analysis of shallow foundations
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/03/2013Seismic settlements of shallow foundations on liquefiable soil with a clay crust
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Numerical analysis of liquefaction-induced bearing capacity degradation of shallow foundations on a two-layered soil profile
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Insight into the seismic liquefaction performance of shallow foundations
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
An analytical method for strength verification of buried steel pipelines at normal fault crossings
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Stress analysis of buried steel pipelines at strike-slip fault crossings
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Recent publications
01/08/2025Dynamic characterization of sand under low confinement stress via shear box testing on shaking table
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Incorporating soil-structure interaction into simplified numerical models for fragility analysis of RC structures
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Review of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Models
Earthquake Resistant Design, Protection, and Performance Assessment in Earthquake Engineering
Seismic Fragility of Substandard RC Frames with Soil-Structure Interaction Effects
Similarity based nonlinear settlement predictions of circular surface footings on clay
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Related people
Professor Andrea Diambra
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Professor George Mylonakis
Chair in Geotechnics and Soil-Structure Interaction
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Dr Matt Dietz
Senior Research Fellow
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Professor Flavia De Luca
Professor of Structural and Earthquake Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering