Areas of Expertise: He has twenty years’ experience in the areas of structural dynamics, active materials, FEM modeling, and damage detection in composite structures. He has worked in the research areas of vibration measurements, design, and efficiency investigation of anti-vibrations setups as well as energy harvesting from piezoelectric devices. His experience on dynamic characterization varies from small lab scale demonstrators up to the level of real structures i.e. wind turbine blades or helicopters

Chrysochoidis Nikolaos has graduated Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineer from the University of Patras in 2001 and holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering since 2008.

He has published over 50 journal articles and conference papers in the area of structural dynamics, vibration control, damage detection, energy harvesting, and composite materials. Indicative Publications:

• C. Kardarakos, N.A. Chrysochoidis, D. Varelis, D.A. Saravanos, 2023. Numerical and experimental investigation of the energy harvesting performance of electromechanically coupled piezoelectric prestressed beams subjected to nonlinear vibrations. Smart Materials and Structures, DOI 10.1088/1361-665X/acb472
• Christoforos S. Rekatsinas, Dimitris K. Siorikis, Christos V. Nastos, Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis, Theodosios C. Theodosiou, Ahmet S. Yigit, Andreas P. Christoforou, Dimitris A. Saravanos, “An efficient computational framework for hailstone impacts on composite plates utilizing a semi-empirical viscoplastic contact law” International Journal of Impact Engineering, 178,2023, 104628, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2023.104628.
• Chatziathanasiou, G.M., Chrysochoidis N.A., Saravanos D.A, 2022, A Semi-Active Shunted Piezoelectric Tuned-Mass-Damper for Multi-Modal Vibration Control of Large Flexible Structures, Journal of Sound and Vibration,537, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117222.
• Chatziathanasiou, G.M., Chrysochoidis N.A., Saravanos D.A, 2021, A semi-active shunted piezoelectric tuned mass damper for robust vibration control, Journal of Vibration and Control, https://doi.org/10.1177/10775463211026487
• Rekatsinas, C.S., Chrysochoidis, N.A., Saravanos, D.A, 2021, Investigation of critical delamination characteristics in composite plates combining cubic spline piezo-layerwise mechanics and time domain spectral finite elements, Wave Motion, 106, 102752, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2021.102752