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:
  • Multiphysics Geomechanics Lab (MGLab)

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

• CEE 302L: Introduction to Soil Mechanics
• CEE 493: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 494: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 520: Continuum Mechanics
• CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 691: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 692: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 702: Graduate Colloquium
• CEE 780: Internship
• EGR 201L: Mechanics of Solids

In the News

• 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

• Morcioni, A; Apuani, T; Cecinato, F; Veveakis, M, Landslide susceptibility evaluation in Alpine environment: 1. 3D Finite Element modeling of the Ruinon (IT) case study, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, vol 36 (2023) [10.1016/j.gete.2023.100493] [abs].
• Sac-Morane, A; Veveakis, M; Rattez, H, A Phase-Field Discrete Element Method to study chemo-mechanical coupling
  in granular materials (2023) [abs].
• Sac-Morane, A; Veveakis, M; Rattez, H, Frictional weakening of a granular sheared layer due to viscous rolling
  revealed by Discrete Element Modeling (2023) [abs].
• Poulet, T; Cier, RJ; Rojas, S; Veveakis, M; Calo, VM, Finite Element Continuation Analysis for Cnoidal Waves in Solids (2023), pp. 24-30 [10.1007/978-3-031-22213-9_3] [abs].
• Sac-Morane, A; Rattez, H; Veveakis, M, Discrete Element Modeling of a fault reveals that viscous rolling relaxation controls friction weakening (2022) [10.1002/essoar.10508662.1] [abs].