Yiannis Tsompanakis

Yiannis Tsompanakis has received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is currently an Assistant Professor of structural earthquake engineering at the Department of Applied Sciences, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in structural mechanics and earthquake engineering and he is a supervisor of diploma, master and doctoral theses. He is a reviewer for archival journals and he has participated in the organization of several international congresses. He has published over 60 research papers in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has been involved in many research and practical projects in the field of earthquake engineering and computational mechanics. His main research interests include: structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, structural optimization, probabilistic mechanics, structural assessment, applications of artificial intelligence methods in engineering.

Publications

Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering
Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering
Nikos Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis. © 2007. 444 pages.
The enormous advances in computational hardware and software resources over the last fifteen years resulted in the development of non-conventional data processing and simulation...
Improved Seismic Design Procedures and Evolutionary Tools
Improved Seismic Design Procedures and Evolutionary Tools
Michalis Fragiadakis, Nikos D. Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis, Manolis Papadrakakis. © 2007. 21 pages.
Four alternative analytical procedures are recommended by the design codes for the structural analysis of buildings under earthquake loading. The objective of this chapter is to...
Soft Computing Techniques in Probabilistic Seismic Analysis of Structures
Soft Computing Techniques in Probabilistic Seismic Analysis of Structures
Nikos Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis, Michalis Fragiadakis, Manolis Papadrakakis. © 2007. 22 pages.
Earthquake-resistant design of structures using probabilistic analysis is an emerging field in structural engineering. The objective of this chapter is to investigate the...