Prof. George C. Manos

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-GREECE

Director Laboratory of Strength of Materials and Structures, Greece

Professor

Email: gcmanos@civil.auth.gr

Qualifications

1976  Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of Durham, England

1971  M.Sc., Civil Engineering at Aristotle University, Greece

Publications(Selected)

1. Manos G.C. and Clough R.W. “Tank Damage during the May 1983 Coalinga Earthquake”, Int. J. Earth. Eng. Str. Dyn., Vol. 13, pp. 449-466, (1985).
2. Manos G.C. “Earthquake Tank Wall Stability of Unanchored Tanks”, ASCE Journal of Str. Eng. ASCE, Vol. 112, No 8, pp. 1863-1880 (1986).
3. Manos G.C.,  Shibata H., Shigeta T. “Correlation of Cylindrical Tank Wall Buckling with an Earthquake Motion Recorded at a Small Distance from the Tank”,  Int. J. Earth. Eng. Str. Dyn., Vol. 18, pp. 169-184, (1989).
4. Gulkan P., Clough R.W., Manos G.C. and  Mayes R.L. “Seismic Testing of Single-story Masonry Houses : Part 1”, Journal of Str. Eng. ASCE, Vol. 116, No 1, January 1990, pp. 235-256.
5. Gulkan P., Clough R.W., Manos G.C. and  Mayes R.L. “Seismic Testing of Single-story Masonry Houses : Part 2”, Journal of Str. Eng. ASCE, Vol. 116, No 1, January 1990, pp. 257-274.
6. G.C. Manos "Evaluation of the Earthquake Performance of Anchored Wine Tanks during the San-Juan Argentina 1977 Earthquake", Int. J. Earth. Eng. Str. Dyn., Vol. 20, pp.1099-1114, 1991.
7. International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering: "Codes, Programs and Examples", edited by Mario Paz, Chapter 17, Greece by G.C. Manos, Chapman and Hall, ISBN 0-412-98211-0, 1994.
8. G.C. Manos, B. Yasin,  J. Thaumpta, D. Mpoufides “ The Simulated Earthquake Response of two 7-story R.C. Planar Model Structures - A Shear Wall and a Frame with Masonry Infills”, 6th U.S. National Earthquake Engineering Conference, 1998.
9. G.C. Manos “Report on Selected Papers – Session V: Architectural Heritage In Seismic Areas” Proc. Intern. Congress – More Than 2000 Years in the History of Architecture UNESCO, pp. 236-254, Paris, 2003.
10. A.T. Taflanidis, D.C. Angelides, G.C. Manos “Optimal Design and performance of liquid column mass dampers for rotational vibration control of structures under white noise excitation”, Journal Engineering Structures, 27 (2005), 524-534.
11. G.C. Manos, V. Kourtides, V. Soulis, A. Sextos, P. Renault “ Study of the dynamic response of a bridge pier model structure at the Volvi – Greece European Test Site”, 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Fransisco, 17-21 April, 2006.
12. G.C. Manos, V.J. Soulis, A. Diagouma, “Numerical Investigation of the behaviour of the church of Agia Triada, Drakotrypa, Greece”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 39/4, pp 284-300, 2007.
13. G.C. Manos, A. G. Sextos, S. Mitoulis, M. Geraki, “Software for the Preliminary Design of Seismically Isolated R/C Highway Overpass Bridges”, 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Earthquake Engineering Conference, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
14. Manos George, Soulis V., Felekidou O., Matsou V. “A Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic and Earthquake Behavior of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Basilicas”, 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Earthquake Engineering Conference, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
15. G. C. Manos, Konstantinos Katakalos, V. Kourtides, “Investigation of two different anchoring devices and their influence on concrete surface treatment when CFRPs are being applied for strengthening R/C structural members in order to upgrade their shear behavior” Structural Engineers World Congress (SEWC) 2011,  Como – Villa Erba – Italy, 4-6 April 2011.
16. G.C.Manos, Konstantinos Katakalos, C.G. Papakonstantinou, “Shear behavior of rectangular beams strengthened with either carbon or steel fiber reinforced polymers”, Applied Mechanics and Materials (Trans Tech Publications) Vol. 82 (2011) pp 571-576.
17. G.C.Manos, Konstantinos Katakalos, V. Kourtides, “The influence of concrete surface preparation when fiber reinforced polymers with different anchoring devices are being applied for strengthening R/C structural members”, Applied Mechanics and Materials (Trans Tech Publications) Vol. 82 (2011) pp 600-605.
18. George C. Manos, George Koidis, and Milton Demosthenous, “Investigation of the Sliding Response of a Rigid Body System to Uni-Direction Horizontal Dynamic and Earthquake Excitations”, COMPDYN 2011, Corfu, Greece, 26–28 May 2011.
19. George C. Manos , Stergios A. Mitoulis , Anastasios G. Sextos,  “A Knowledge-Based Software for the Preliminary Design of Seismically Isolated Bridges” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, published on line October 2011, DOI 10.1007/s10518-011-9320-0.
20. Manos George, “Consequences on the urban environment in Greece related to the recent intense earthquake activity”,  Int. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture,  Dec. 2011, Volume 5, No. 12 (Serial No. 49), pp. 1065–1090.
21. G.C. Manos, V.J. Soulis, J. Thauampteh, “The behavior of masonry assemblages and masonry-infilled R/C frames subjected to combined vertical and cyclic horizontal seismic-type loading” Advances in Engineering Software 45 (2012) 213–231.
22. G.C. Manos, V.J. Soulis, J. Thauampteh, “A nonlinear numerical model and its utilization in simulating the in-plane behaviour of multi-story R/C frames with masonry infills”, accepted for publication, The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, 2012.
23. G. C. Manos, S.A. Mitoulis  & G. Koidis, “Utilization of an Expert System for the Preliminary design of seismically isolated bridges”, 15^th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, (2012) Portugal.
24. G.C. Manos, K. Katakalos, C. Papakonstantinou, G. Koidis, “Enhanced Repair and Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Utilizing External Fiber Reinforced Polymer Sheets and Novel Anchoring Devices”, 15^th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, (2012) Portugal.
25. G. C. Manos, V. J. Soulis & N. Karamitsios, “The Performance of  Post-Byzantine churches during the Kozani-1995 Earthquake – Numerical Investigation of their Dynamic and Earthquake Behavior”, 15^th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, (2012) Portugal.