Advances in Direct Methods for Limit States of Structures and Materials

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Institute of Structural Analysis
& Antiseismic Research of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of
Athens (NTUA). He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from NTUA, an MSc from Imperial College in
Concrete Structures and a PhD Degree from the Aeronautics Department of Imperial College. His
research spans many different areas of Structural Mechanics, such as Inelasticity, Direct Methods for
Limit States, Nonlinear Reinforced Concrete Analysis (NRCA), Earthquake Engineering, Graph theory,
Mathematical Programming, Large Displacements and Strains, Large Rotations. He has published 35
papers in top rated international journals, 9 chapters in edited refereed books and has made 71
contributions in international conferences. He is editor and co-editor of 3 books. Work on NRCA has
been adopted by the ADINA software.

Dieter Weichert graduated from RWTH-Aachen University in Mechanical Engineering, obtained his
Dr.-degree and Habilitation from Ruhr-University Bochum. He held professional, academic and
managing positions at Krupp-Brüninghaus GmbH (Germany), American University of Beirut,
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Institut des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen and
RWTH-Aachen University. He was active as consultant for private and public organisations until
retirement in 2013. Fields of scientific interest: Solid Mechanics, Inelasticity, Failure of Materials and
Structures, Composites, Biomechanics. He is author, co-author, editor, co-editor of more than 300
papers and 9 books.