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Manolis Veveakis

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

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

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].

Affiliate Topics in Materials Research