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Dr. Christos G. Papakonstantinou

Dr. Christos G. Papakonstantinou

Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Rutgers University, 2003
  • M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2000
  • B.S. in Civil Engineering, Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1995

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Biography:


Dr. Christos G. Papakonstantinou is Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

He received a B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, a M.Sc. from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Rutgers University. His area of expertise is Engineering Materials and Structural Engineering.

Dr. Papakonstantinou worked in seismic structural design of reinforced concrete , rehabilitation and remodeling of existing buildings. He supervised construction of several new reinforced concrete buildings, as well as rehabilitation of old structures.

He is the author of several research papers published in national and international engineering journals in the area of Structural and Materials Engineering.

Dr. Papakonstantinou is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Concrete Institute (ACI), Society for Advanced Materials and Processing Engineering (SAMPE) and Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).

Areas Of Interest:

  • Advanced Composite Materials
  • Concrete Coatings
  • Geopolymer Systems
  • Reinforced Concrete Technology
  • Retrofit of Concrete Structural Elements
  • Structural Engineering

Selected Publications:


Publications; Manuscripts
1. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Michael F. Petrou, and Kent A. Harries, "Fatigue Behavior of RC Beams Strengthened with GFRP Sheets". ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, Volume 5, Issue 4, November 2001, pp. 246-253.
2. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Perumalsamy N. Balaguru and Richard E. Lyon. "Comparative Study of High Temperature Composites". Composites Part B: Engineering, Volume 32, Issue 8, December 2001, pp. 637-649.
3. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Perumalsamy N. Balaguru and Michael F. Petrou. “Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with Composites Subjected to Fatigue Loading”. ACI Special Publication SP 206-3 “Concrete: Material Science to Application”, Detroit, April 2002, pp. 41-60.
4. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Matthew Tobolski. “Use of Waste Tire Steel Beads in Portland Cement Concrete Cement and Concrete Research”, Cement and Concrete Research, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2006, pp. 1686-1691.
5. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru. “Fatigue Behavior of Polysialate Structural Composites”, ASCE Journal of Materials, April 2007, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 321-328.
6. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, James Giancaspro, Perumalsamy N. Balaguru. “Fire Response and Mechanical Behavior of Polysialate Syntactic Foams”, Composites Part A: Science and Manufacturing, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 75-84.
7. James Giancaspro, Christos G. Papakonstantinou, and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru "Fire Resistance of Inorganic Sawdust Biocomposite", Journal of Composite Science and Technology, June 2008, Vol 68/7-8, pp 1895-1902
8. James Giancaspro, Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Mohammed Nazier, and Perumalsamy Balaguru. “Aerospace Technology for Strengthening of Bridges”, Construction and Building Materials, Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2009, pp 748-757.
9. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. "Mechanical behavior of high temperature hybrid carbon fiber/titanium laminates", ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (In Press, Accepted Manuscript).
10. Konstantinos Katakalos and Christos G. Papakonstantinou, “Fatigue of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with steel reinforced inorganic polymers (SRiP)”, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction (In Press, Accepted Manuscript – to appear April 2009).
11. James Giancaspro, Christos G. Papakonstantinou, and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru “Mechanical behavior of Fire-Resistant Biocomposite”, Composites Part B: Engineering (In Press, Accepted Manuscript).
12. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Yubun Auyeung and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru, “Influence of FRP Confinement on Bond Behavior of Corroded Steel Reinforcement”, ACI Materials Journal (Revision submitted - under review).
13. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. "Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams strengthened with a hybrid retrofit system", Structural Engineering and Mechanics (under review).
14. James Giancaspro, Christos G. Papakonstantinou, and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru, "Flexural Behavior of Inorganic Hybrid Composites with E-Glass and Carbon Fibers", Composites Part A: Science and Manufacturing (under review).





Publications; Book Chapters

Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru, “Use of Geopolymer matrix for high temperature resistant hybrid laminates and sandwich panels.” Geopolymers, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development Solutions, Geopolymer Institute, Editor: J. Davidovits, pp. 201-207, 2006.


Invited Papers/Presentations

C.G.Papakonstantinou and P.N. Balaguru, “Use of geopolymer matrix for high temperature resistant hybrid laminates and sandwich panels.” International Workshop on Geopolymers and Geopolymer Concrete GCC 2005, Perth, Australia, September 2005 (Sponsored by NSF).

C.G. Papakonstantinou, “Protective Coatings with Nano-Constituent Materials”, 2nd International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Construction, Bilbao, Spain, November 2005 (Sponsored by NSF).


Publications; Conference Proceedings

1. M.F. Petrou, J. Aidoo, K.A. Harries, and C.G. Papakonstantinou, "Fatigue Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams/Slabs Strengthened with GFRP/CFRP Sheets", Proceedings of the Fifth NSF National Workshop on Bridge Research in Progress, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 8-10, 2001, pp 51-54.
2. J.A. Giancaspro, C.G. Papakonstantinou, P.N. Balaguru, R.E. Lyon. “Inorganic Matrix for Fireproof Composites and Sandwich Plates”, Proceedings of the Third Triennial Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, Federal Aviation Administration, October 2001, Atlantic City, NJ.
3. Christos G. Papakonstantinou, Perumalsamy N. Balaguru and Richard E. Lyon. “Hybrid Composite Panels with Fireproof Lightweight Core and Carbon Fiber Skin”. International SAMPE Symposium (Proceedings), v 47 II, 2002, pp. 1011-1021.
4. K.W. Lee, C.G. Papakonstantinou and P.N. Balaguru. “High Strength Composites for Strengthening and Protective Coatings”, 9th International Conference of Composites Engineering, July 1-6, 2002, San Diego, California.
5. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru, “High Temperature Lightweight Polysialate Syntactic Foams”, 10th International Conference on Composites /Nano Engineering, July 20-26, 2003, New Orleans, LA, pp.545-546.
6. C.G. Papakonstantinou and P.N. Balaguru, “Effect of Microsphere Size on the Properties of a Geopolymer Syntactic Foam”. New Horizons for Materials and Processing Technologies, Proceedings of the 2005 International SAMPE Symposium, v 50, 2005.
7. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Lina Tsang, “An early investigation of High modulus Carbon Fiber/Titanium Laminates”, New Horizons for Materials and Processing Technologies, Proceedings of the 2005 International SAMPE Symposium, v 50, 2005.
8. E. Aboelela, W. Edberg, C. Papakonstantinou, and V. Vokkarane: “Wireless Sensor Network Based Model for Secure Railway Operations”, International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (eSCo-Wi ‘06) in conjunction with 25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2006), Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 623-628, April 10-12, 2006.
9. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and P.N. Balaguru, “Fire Testing of Geopolymer based Syntactic Foams”. Creating New Opportunities for the World Economy, Proceedings of the 2006 International SAMPE Symposium, v 51, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
10. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Perumalsamy N. Balaguru. "Bond Characteristics and Structural Behavior of Inorganic Polymer FRP". Measuring, Monitoring and Modeling Concrete Properties, Editor: M.S. Konsta-Gdoutos, Springer Publishing, July 2006.
11. C.G. Papakonstantinou and P.N. Balaguru, “Geopolymer Protective Coatings for Concrete”. Proceedings of the 2007 International SAMPE Symposium, Baltimore, MD, v 52, 2007.
12. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. "A Hybrid Strengthening System for the Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete," SAMPE '07 in Long Beach, CA May 18-22, 2008.
13. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. "Innovative Retrofit System with Nano-Constituent Materials for Reinforced Concrete". NANO 2008, 9th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 01-06, 2008.
14. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. “Fireproof strengthening system for rehabilitation of reinforced concrete”, 4th International Conference on Structural Defects and Repair, , Aveiro, Portugal, 26-28 June 2008.
15. Christos G. Papakonstantinou and Konstantinos Katakalos. “Durability of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with a fireproof strengthening system", 4th International Conference on Structural Defects and Repair, Aveiro, Portugal, 26-28 June 2008.

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