Department of 

   Mechanical  Engineering

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 1.             Project Co-ordination

 Project Coordinator and Scientific Coordinator of the following research projects funded by the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) of Cyprus:

 2004 - 2007                            “New Guardrail System Design for Critical Collision Cases in Cyprus Highways”.  Funding: CYP 75000

2004 - 2006                            “Design and Manufacturing of high pressure composite pipes”.   Funding: CYP 50000

2004 - 2006                            “Improvement of the exrudability of the aluminium alloy AA6063 using coated dies with new type PVD
  coatings” Funding CYP 35.000.

2001 - 2003                            “Energy Absorbing Systems”. Funding CYP 49.600.

1999 - 2001                             “Production process development for aluminium alloys through utilisation of recyclable aluminium reserves.
  Evaluation of the proposed process based on the formability and machinability of the final product”. Funding
  CYP 30.000.

1998 - 2000                             “The effect of environmental factors on the mechanical properties of composite materials”.
  Funding CYP 27.000.

 

2.   Participation in research projects

 Special Collaboration (1999 – 2003) with the Manufacturing Technology Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Participation as researcher in the following projects:

 

Research associate (1989 – 1996) at the Manufacturing Technology Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Researcher in various research projects in co-operation with Universities, Research Centres and Industries in Europe and the USA.

 

  

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 A.            Books-Monographs

 ·           “Manufacturing Technology: Casting-Welding-Machining Processes-Forming Processes”, by A.C. Baldoukas and G.A.
           Demosthenous, (2005), Patakis Publishing Company, Greece

·          “Crashworthy characteristics of composite thin-walled structural components” by Mamalis A.G., Manolakos D.E., Demosthenous
     G.A. and M.B. Ioannidis, (1998), Technomic Publishing Company, Inc, USA

 

 B.            Publications in International Scientific Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences

Over than 35 scientific publications in refereed Journals and International Conferences and final reports of research projects.

 Selection of recent publications

 

1.     

Omirou S. and Demosthenous G., "An Algorithm for Tracing Planar Equidistant Curves", Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, (submitted for approval - 2004).

2.     

Mamalis A.G., Manolakos D.E., Ioannidis M.B., Kostazos P.K., Goulielmos A. and Demosthenous G.A., “Finite Element Simulation of Internally Grooved Thin-Wall PVC Tubes subjected to Axial Plastic Collapse”, Int. J. of Crashworthiness, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2004, pp. 433-441

3.     

Α.Κ. Μπαλντούκας, Γ.Α. Δημοσθένους, Δ.Ε. Μανωλάκος, Π.Κ. Κωστάζος,   Α.Ε. Λόντος, Κ.Σ. Κοντουργιώτης, «Πειραματική και Υπολογιστική διερεύνηση του μηχανισμού παραμόρφωσης παρεμβλημάτων μεταλλικών στηθαίων ασφαλείας με στόχο το σχεδιασμό βελτιωμένων μορφών», 2o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Μεταλλικών Υλικών, Αθήνα, Νοέμβριος 2004

4.     

Α. Λόντος, Κ.-∆. Μπουζάκης, Γ. ∆ηµοσθένους, Α. Μπαλντούκας, «Προσδιορισµός της καµπύλης τάσης - παραµόρφωσης µεταλλικών υλικών, µέσω της αξιολόγησης αποτελεσµάτων διείσδυσης σφαιρικών εισβολέων και κατάλληλου προσοµοιωτικού µοντέλου (FEM)», 2o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Μεταλλικών Υλικών, Αθήνα, Νοέμβριος 2004

5.     

Α. Κ. Μπαλντούκας, Κ. Σ. Κοντουργιώτης, ∆. Ε. Μανωλάκος, Γ. Α. ∆ηµοσθένους, Σ. Α. Μαυροµµάτης, Β. ∆. Τσουκαλάς, «∆ιερεύνηση της φθοράς µεταλλικών χιτωνίων που φέρουν οι κύλινδροι κονιοποίησης υγρής αργίλου: Μέρος Ι: Πειραµατική διάταξη», 2o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Μεταλλικών Υλικών, Αθήνα, Νοέμβριος 2004

6.     

Α.Κ. Baldoukas, G.A. Demosthenous, D.E. Manolakos, P. Kostazos, A. Tsatsaris, S.A. Mavrommatis, B.D. Tsoukalas, “Optimizing the crashworthy characteristics of guardrail spacers using the explicit FE code LS-DYNA”, International Conference “Applied Mathematics and Simulation”, Halkida, September 2004

7.     

Baldoukas A., Demosthenous G. and Manolakos D., “Experimental evaluation of the 6xxx series aluminium alloys exrudability” JSME/ASME International Conference on Materials and Processing 2002, October 2002, Hawaii

8.     

Demosthenous G., Manolakos D. and Baldoukas A. “The effect of moisture on the fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced composite materials”, JSME/ASME International Conference on Materials and Processing 2002, October 2002, Hawaii

9.     

Baldoukas A.,  Demosthenous G., Sofianos D., Vlachakis D. and Kountourgiotis K. “Force and torque measuring devices for drilling and milling simulation”, 2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization, (ICOSMO 2002), September 2002, Skiathos Island, Greece

10. 

Demosthenous G., Kyriacou C. and Baldoukas A., “A computerized small size fatigue testing machine for composite material experimental characterization”, 4th Mechanical Engineering Multiconference, May 2002, Cancum, Mexico

11. 

Demosthenous G. and Baldoukas A., “Mg, Si and die geometry effects on the formability and the machinability of recycled aluminium alloys”, 2nd Soft Computing, Optimization, Simulation and Manufacturing Systems, May 2002, Cancum, Mexico

12. 

Mamalis A.G., Manolakos D.E., Ioannidis M.B., Kostazos P.K., Goulielmos A. and Demosthenous G.A., “Finite Element Simulation of Internally Grooved Thin-Wall PVC Tubes subjected to Axial Plastic Collapse”, 3rd International Crashworthiness Conference (ICrash 2002), February 2002, Melbourne, Australia

13. 

Demosthenous G. “An overview of the scientific results of the research project referred in D1”, The Journal of the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus “IPSIPETIS”, Issue 3, January 2002

14. 

Demosthenous G. “An overview of the scientific results of the research project referred in D2”, The Journal of the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus “IPSIPETIS”, Issue 2, June 2001

  

3.            INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC WORK

 The published research work has been referred by a significant number of researchers in more than 100 papers in International Scientific Journals.