Vibrations of Structural Systems

George D. Manolis, PhD Address Laboratory for Experimental Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Structures, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece. Email: gdm@civil.auth.gr Areas of Specialisation Structural Engineering (Structural Analysis and Design), Structural Dynamics, Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods, Earthquake Engineering, Elastodynamics, Nanomechanics. Degrees Bachelor of Civil Engineering, June 1976, University of Minnesota, USA Master of Science, 1977, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Doctor of Philosophy, 1980, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Employment History Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 1976 1979. Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1980-1986. Associate Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA, 1986-1990. Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 1986-1987. Guest Professor, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, 1987. Associate Professor, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1990-1994. Professor, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994-2021. Senior Visiting Researcher, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst, Southampton, UK, 1999. Professor Honorarius, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2021-present. Mercator Fellowship, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany, 2022-present.

Dr. Christos Panagiotopoulos is a Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a Teaching Associate at the Hellenic Open University, contributing to the postgraduate program Seismic Engineering, Seismic Analysis of Structures, Seismic Design and Retrofit of Structures. He has also served as a Research and Teaching Associate at the Civil Engineering Department of the International Hellenic University, as well as at the Department of Music Technology and Acoustics of the Hellenic Mediterranean University. Additionally, he has held the position of Teaching Associate at the School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, and worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). Dr. Panagiotopoulos has also been a Research Associate at the Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Seville, Spain. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance chartered civil engineer (registered with the Technical Chamber of Greece), and has been a member of the R&D department of PYTHMEN S.L. in Cartagena, Spain. He is currently the CEO of SIMPLEGMA P.C., a start-up company based in Greece, specializing in research and development in mathematical and engineering modeling.