George N. Frantziskonis, PhD, PE	DETAILS!
Professor, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
P.O. Box 210072
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0072
Tel: 520-621-4347, Fax: 520-621-2550 frantzis @ email . arizona . edu

Current Research Activities:

Multiscale Material Characterization and Applications. Multiscale Interpretation of Experimental Results. Wavelet Analysis	Behavior of Materials at Nano-scale - Surface Effects and Insensitivity to Defects
Probabilistic and Multiscale Material Description and Applications to Safety and Reliability	Multiscale Simulation of Flow Over a Reactive Surface
Elastic Properties of Prostate Tumors and Relation to Early Detection of Prostate Cancer	Compressed Air Energy Storage – System Design

Work Background

2000 – present, Professor; 1994 – 2000, Assoc. Prof.; 1988 – 1994, Assist. Prof.: Department of Civil Engineering   and Engineering Mechanics, and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona.	Fall 2015 & Spring 2016 & Spring 2009: Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Fall 2001: Visiting Professor, Fulbright Award, Department of Physics, National University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.	Summer 2001:  Professeur Invité, CDGA, Université Bordeaux 1, France.
Summer 1998 & Summer 1997 & Summer 1993:  Research Associate, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Nondestructive Evaluation Branch, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.	Oct. 1994 – Apr. 1995: Directeur Recherche Associé au CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientific),   Laboratoire de Mecanique et Technologie (LMT), Cachan, France.
Apr. 1994 – Sep. 1994:  Professeur Invité, Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Laboratoire 3S, Grenoble, France.	Summer 1991:  Visiting Assistant Professor, Petroleum and Geological   Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
1986 – 1988:  Visiting Scholar, Institute for Steel Structures, Aristotle University.	1984 – 1986:  Research Assistant, College of Engineering, University of Arizona.
1983 – 1984: Teaching Assistant, College of Engineering, University of Arizona.

Publications:   > 75 refereed Journal out of ~ 120 publications,
             including 1 instructional book, 2 edited books, 3 book chapters, 1 web-based book, and 1 web-based instructional module.

Selected Publications:

G. Frantziskonis and I. Vardoulakis, "On the Micro-Structure of  Surface Effects and Related Instabilities," Europ. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 11, 21-34, 1992.	I. Vardoulakis and G. Frantziskonis,"Micro-Structure in Kinematic-Hardening Plasticity," Europ. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 11, 467-486,1992.
D. Daniewicz and G. Frantziskonis, "On Edge Delamination in Laminated Composites ," Composite Struct., 21, 141-153, 1992.	G. Frantziskonis, C.S. Desai, F.F. Tang, and D. Daniewicz, "Degradation Mechanisms in Brittle Materials Investigated by Ultrasonic Scanning," Engr. Fracture Mechs, 42, 347-369,  1992.
G. Frantziskonis, "Surface Effects In Brittle Materials and Internal Length Estimation,"  Appl. Mech. Rev., 45, 3 (p2), S62-S70,  1992.	H. Dai and G. Frantziskonis, "Heterogeneity, Spatial Correlations, Size Effects and Dissipated Energy in Brittle Materials," Mechanics of Materials, 18 , 103-118,1994.
G. Frantziskonis, "On Scaling Phenomena in Fracture of  Heterogeneous Solids," Europ. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 13, 73-92, 1994.	G. Frantziskonis, P. Karpur, T. Matikas, S. Krishnamurthy and P. Jero, "Fiber Matrix Interface - Information from Experiments via Simulation," Composite Struct.,  29, 231-247, 1994.
G. Frantziskonis, "Heterogeneity and Implicated Surface Effects - Statistical, Fractal Formulation and Relevant Analytical Solution," Acta Mechanica, 108 ,  157-178, 1995.	G. Hong, A. Yializis and G. Frantziskonis, "Hygrothermal Degradation in Glass-Epoxy - Evaluation through Stress Wave Factors," Composite Struct., 30, 407-418, 1995.
G. Frantziskonis and B. Loret, "Scale Dependent Constitutive Relations -Information from Wavelet Analysis and Application to Localization Problems," Eur. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 14, 873-892, 1995.	M. J. Meisner and G. Frantziskonis, "Dissipated Energy as a Function of Material Microstructure: Towards Optimum Fracture-toughness," J. Mech. Beh. of Matls., 6, 285-300, 1996.
M.J. Meisner and G. Frantziskonis, "Multifractal Fracture-toughness Properties of Brittle Materials,"  J.Physics A, 29, 2657-2670, 1996.	G. Frantziskonis, P. Renaudin and D. Breysse, "Heterogeneous Solids: Part I - Analytical and Numerical 1-D Results on Boundary Effects," Eur. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 16, 423-452, 1997.
P. Renaudin, D. Breysse and G. Frantziskonis, "Heterogeneous Solids: Part II - Numerical Result on 2-D Boundary Effects and RelatedProblems," Eur. J. Mechs. A/Solids, 16, 453-470, 1997.	M. J. Meisner and G. Frantziskonis, "Heterogeneous Materials - Scaling Phenomena Relevant to Fracture and to Fracture Toughness" Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 8, 151-170, 1997.
J.O. Vasseur, P.A. Deymier, G. Frantziskonis, G. Hong, B. Djafari-Rouhani, L. Dobrzynski, "Experimental Evidences for the Existence of Absolute Acoustic Bandgaps in Two-dimensional Periodic Composite Media," J. of Physics: Condensed Matter, 10, 6051-6064, 1998.	G. Frantziskonis, "Stochastic Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials - A Process for the Analysis and Evaluation of Alternative Formulations," Mechanics of Materials, 27, 165-175, 1998.
M. Budhu, S. Ramakrishnan and G. Frantziskonis, "A Lattice-type Model for the Behavior of Particulate Media," Int. J. Num. & Anal. Meth. in Geom., 23, 647-671, 1999.	G. Frantziskonis, L.B. Simon, J. Woo and T.E. Matikas, "Multiscale Characterization of Pitting Corrosion and Application to an Aluminum Alloy," Eur. J. Mechanics , A/Solids, 19, 309-318, 2000.
G. Frantziskonis and P.A. Deymier, "WaveletMethods for Analyzing and Bridging Simulations at Complementary Scales – the Compound Wavelet Matrix and Application to Microstructure Evolution," MSMSE , 8, 649-664,  2000.	G. Frantziskonis and A. Hansen, "Wavelet-based Multiscaling in Self-affine Random Media," Fractals , 8, 403-411,  2000.
M. Avlonitis, T. Ioannidou, G. Frantziskonis and E.C. Aifantis, "Statistical and Stochastic Aspects of Gradient Theory," J. Mech. Beh. Mat., 12, 77-84, 2001.	A. Konstantinidis , G. Frantziskonis, A. Carpinteri  and E.C. Aifantis, "Size Effects on Tensile Strength and Fracture Energy: Wavelets Versus Fractal Approach and Application to Concrete," J. Mech. Beh. Mat., 12, 85-94, 2001.
G. Frantziskonis, A. Konstandinidis and E.C. Aifantis, "Scale-dependent Constitutive Relations and the Role of Scale on Nominal Properties," Eur. J. Mechanics, A/Solids, 20, 925-936, 2001.	G. Frantziskonis, "Wavelet-based Multiscaling - Application to Material Porosity and Identification of Dominant Scales,"  Prob. Engr. Mechs., 17, 349-357, 2002.
G. Frantziskonis, "Multiscale Characterization of Materials with Distributed Pores and Inclusions and Application to Crack Formation in an Aluminum Alloy," Prob. Engr. Mechs., 17, 359-367, 2002.	G. Frantziskonis and P. Deymier, “Wavelet-based Spatial and Temporal Multiscaling: Bridging the Atomistic and Continuum Space and Time Scales,” Phys. Rev. B, 68, 024105, 2003.
G. Frantziskonis and A. Denis, "Complementarity Entropy and Wavelet Analysis of Drilling-Ability Data," Mathematical Geol., 35, 89-103, 2003.	G. Frantziskonis and P. Deymier, "The Effects of Stress Concentrators on Strength of Materials at Nano Scale – A Molecular Dynamics Study," Mech. Res. Comm., 33, 352-358, 2006.
P.A. Deymier, K. Oh, K. Muralidharan, G. Frantziskonis and K. Runge, "Selection of Domains for Coarse and Fine Levels of Description in Mixed-Potential Simulations," Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design (JCAD), 13, 17-44, 2006	G. Frantziskonis and P. Deymier, "Surface Effects at Nanoscale Significantly Reduce the Effects of Stress Concentrators," Prob. Engr. Mechs., 21, 277-286, 2006.
K. Muralidharan , S.K. Mishra ,  G. Frantziskonis,  P.A. Deymier, P. Nukala, S. Simunovic, S. Pannala, “The Dynamic Compound Wavelet Matrix Method for Multiphysics/multiscale Problems, Phys. Rev. E, 77, 026714, 2008.	G. Frantziskonis, K. Muralidharan, P. Deymier, S. Simunovic, P. Nukala, S. Pannala, “Time-parallel multiscale/multiphysics framework,” J.Comp. Phys., 228, 8085-8092, 2009.
S.K. Mishra, P. Deymier, K. Muralidharan, G. Frantziskonis, S. Pannala, S. Simunovic, “Modeling the coupling of reaction kinetics and hydrodynamics in a collapsing cavity,” Ultrason. Sonochem., 17, 258-265, 2010.	G. Frantziskonis, “Lattice Boltzmann method for multimode wave propagation in viscoelastic media and in elastic solids,” Phys. Rev. E, 83, 066703, 2011.
G. Frantziskonis, “Temporal Scaling in Fatigue Life of Materials and Incorporation of Temporal Events in Paris’s Law,” J. Mech. Behavior of Materials, 21, 175-180, 2013.	J.J. Proczka, K. Muralidharan, D. Vilela, J. Simmons, and G. Frantzoskonis, “Guidelines for the Efficient Sizing of Pressure Vessels for Compressed Air Energy Storage,” Energy Conversion and Management, 65, 597-605, 2013.
G. Frantziskonis, “On the Strength Reliability of Statistically Heterogeneous Materials with Microstructure at Diverse Scales,” Int. J. Mult. Comp. Eng., 12, 249-255, 2014.	Sourav Gur, Sudib K. Mishra and George N. Frantziskonis, “Thermomechanical strain rate dependent behavior of SMAs as vibration dampers and comparison to conventional dampers,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, DOI: 10.1177/1045389X15588628, 2015.
Sourav Gur, Thomas Danielson, Celine Hin, Sreekanth Pannala, George Frantziskonis, Aditya Savara, Stuart Daw, “Wavelet-based surrogate time series for multiscale simulation of heterogeneous catalysis,” Chemical Engineering Science, 144, 165-175, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2016.01.037	Avraam A. Konstantinidis, George Frantziskonis, Harm Askes and Elias C. Aifantis, “The use of nanoindentation for determining internal lengths and the constitutive response of monument materials: models and experiments,” Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 25, 57–60, ISSN (Online) 2191-0243, ISSN (Print) 0334-8938, DOI: 10.1515/jmbm-2016-0003, April 2016.
Sourav Gur and George N. frantziskonis, “Linking simulations and experiments for the multiscale tracking of thermally induced martensitic phase transformation in NiTi SMA,” Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 24 (2016) 075006 (26pp), doi:10.1088/0965-0393/24/7/075006.	Sourav Gur and George N. Frantziskonis, “Atomistic study on size effects in thermally induced martensitic phase transformation of NiTi,” Smart Materials Research, Volume 2016, Article ID 7512642, 12 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7512642.
Frantziskonis, George and Gur, Sourav, “Computational simulations for the development of novel solid-state smart NiTi-Al thermal diodes,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, DOI: 10.1177/1045389X16685440, 2017 (13 pp plus supplement).	Sourav Gur, Venkateswara Rao Manga, Stefan Bringuier, Krishna Muralidharan and George N. Frantziskonis, “Evolution of internal strain in austenite phase during thermally induced martensitic phase transformation in NiTi shape memory alloys,” Comput. Matl. Sci., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.03.012, 133, 52-59, 2017.
Frantziskonis, George and Gur, Sourav, “Length scale effects and multiscale modeling of thermally induced phase transformation kinetics in NiTi SMA thin films,” Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 25 (2017) 045002 (29pp) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-651X/aa6662	Sourav Gur, George Frantziskonis, Sreekanth Pannala and Stuart Daw, “Application of Wavelet-Based Methods for Accelerating Multi-Time-Scale Simulation of Bistable Heterogeneous Catalysis,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, ACS, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b04407, 2017 (14 pp plus supplement).
Sourav Gur, George N. Frantziskonis, and Sudib K. Mishra, “Thermally modulated shape memory alloy friction pendulum (tmSMA-FP) for substantial near-fault earthquake structure protection,” Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2017;e2021, DOI: 10.1002/stc.2021 (15 pp plus supplement).

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