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Manolis Veveakis
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Manolis Veveakis earned a Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Mechanics of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Before joining Duke University, he was a Senior Lecturer at UNSW's School of Petroleum Engineering since 2014 and a Research Scientist in CSIRO's Division of Earth Sciences and Resource Engineering before that. Veveakis holds a Diploma (BSc+MEng) in Applied Mathematics and Physics (MEng in Materials Engineering), an MSc in Applied Mechanics and a PhD in Geomechanics.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Contact Information
- Email Address: manolis.veveakis@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. National Technical University of Athens (Greece), 2010
Research Interests
Theoretical and applied mechanics, Geomechanics, Irreversible Thermodynamics. Emphasis on the multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials
Courses Taught
- ENERGY 795T: Bass Connections Energy & Environment Research Team
- ENERGY 395T: Bass Connections Energy & Environment Research Team
- EGR 201L: Mechanics of Solids
- CEE 890: Advanced Topics in Civil & Environmental Engineering
- CEE 780: Internship
- CEE 702: Graduate Colloquium
- CEE 692: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 691: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 621: Plasticity
- CEE 520: Continuum Mechanics
- CEE 494: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 493: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 302L: Introduction to Soil Mechanics
In the News
- Civil Engineering Is Having a Moment (May 15, 2024 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Taking a Landslide’s Temperature to Avert Catastrophe (Jun 25, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Observing the Unobservable: Models Predict the Mechanical Origins of Earthquakes (Jan 17, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering)
Representative Publications
- Poulet, T; Truttmann, S; Boussange, V; Veveakis, M, Chaotic Slow Slip Events in New Zealand from two coupled slip patches: a
proof of concept (2024) [abs]. - Sac-Morane, A; Veveakis, M; Rattez, H, A Phase-Field Discrete Element Method to study chemo-mechanical coupling in granular materials, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol 424 (2024) [10.1016/j.cma.2024.116900] [abs].
- Lau, RE; Veveakis, M, A data-driven approach to physics-based risk models for deep-seated landslides (2024) [10.22541/au.171156464.44816252/v1] [abs].
- Lindqwister, W; Veveakis, M; Lesueur, M, Chemical homogenization for non-mixing reactive interfaces in porous
media (2024) [abs]. - Riess, H; Veveakis, M; Zavlanos, MM, Path Signatures and Graph Neural Networks for Slow Earthquake Analysis:
Better Together? (2024) [abs].