• Date of Birth: 30th January, 1984
• Place of Birth: Rhodes, Greece
• Nationality: Greek
• Address: Department of Mechanical Engineering,
       University of Thessaly,
       Pedion Areos, Volos 38334, Greece
• Phones: +30-6974208791, +30-2421074063
• Fax: +30-2421074012
• Email: davasili@uth.gr

• July 2006: Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (5-year professional degree), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Finite Element Analysis and Buckling of Tight-Fit-Pipes under External Pressure”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.
• March 2008: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Μ.Sc.), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.
• January 2013: Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. “Structural Behavior and Stability of Cylindrical Steel Shells with Lateral Confinement”, Advisor: Dr. S.A. Karamanos.

Research Interests: Computational Mechanics, Structural Stability, Analysis and Design of Shells, Finite Element, Inelastic Behavior of Materials and Structures.

Participation in Research Projects:

• Prefabricated steel structures for low-rise buildings in seismic areas – PRECASTEEL. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2007-00038, duration: July 2007 – June 2010.
• Steel solutions for seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing constructions – STEELRETRO. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2007-00050, duration: July 2007 – June 2010.
• Structural safety of industrial steel tanks, pressure vessels and piping systems under seismic loading – INDUSE. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2009-00022, duration: July 2009 – December 2012.
• Bending resistance of steel tubes in combiwalls – COMBITUBE. Funded by RFCS, contract number: RFSR-CT-2011-00034, duration: July 2011 – June 2014.

• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 21-32, January 2009.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 133, No. 1, Paper Number: 011205, February 2011.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Mechanical Behavior and Wrinkling of Lined Pipes”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 49, No. 23-24, pp. 3432-3446, November 2012.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Mechanics of Confined Thin-Walled Cylinders Subjected to External Pressure”, ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews, Special Issue, Invited Paper, under review.

Publications in Conferences

• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Unconfined and Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, ASCE Pipelines Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2008.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP2009-77216, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009. [3rd Prize in Student Paper Competition, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP2009), Prague, Czech Rep.]
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Double-Wall Elastic Tubes under Bending”, 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, July 2010.
• Pappa, P., Vasilikis, D., Vazouras, P., and Karamanos, S.A., “On the Seismic Behavior and Design of Liquid Storage Tanks”, COMPDYN 2011 Conference, Corfu, Greece, May 2011.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling of Clad Pipes under Bending and External Pressure”, 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ASME, OMAE2011-49470, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2011.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Numerical Simulation of Clad Pipe Structural Behavior under Bending Loading”, 7th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders Under External Pressure”, 7th National Conference on Metal Structures, Volos, Greece, September 2011.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Wrinkling of Lined Pipes under Bending”, 22nd International Conference on Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering, ISOPE2012-TCP-0748, Rhodes, Greece, June 2012.
• Vasilikis, D. and Karamanos, S.A., “Wrinkling of Lined Steel Pipes under Bending”, 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, ASME, OMAE2013-11122, Nantes, France, June 2013, under publication.

Publications in ASCE Manuals of Practice (MoP)

• American Society of Civil Engineers, “Buried Flexible Steel Pipe. Design and Structural Analysis”, ASCE Manuals & Reports for Engineering Practice, No. 119, 2009.
• American Society of Civil Engineers, “Design of Steel Penstocks”, ASCE Manuals & Reports for Engineering Practice, No. 79, Second Edition, 2012.

Theses – Dissertations

• Vasilikis, D. “Finite Element Analysis and Buckling of Tight-Fit-Pipes under External Pressure”, Diploma Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, July 2006.
• Vasilikis, D. “Stability of Confined Thin-Walled Steel Cylinders under External Pressure”, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, February 2008.
• Vasilikis, D. “Structural Behavior and Stability of Cylindrical Steel Shells with Lateral Confinement”, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, January 2013.

• From the Technical Chamber of Greece for graduating third of my class from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly.
• Third award in the 17th Annual ASME PVPD Ph.D. Student Paper Competition, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2009.
• G.E.O. Widera Literature Award for co-authoring the Outstanding Technical Paper entitled “Buckling Design of Confined Steel Cylinders under External Pressure” published in 2011 in the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology.
• Invited paper in 2013 Special Issue of ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews and Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology for Pressure Vessel Technology.

Member of Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)
Reviewer in the International Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (JPVT)
Reviewer in the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE)