Professor Telephone: +30 2610 997651 Fax: +30 2610 997694 E-Mail: fardis@upatras.gr Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, 265 00 Patras, Greece

Professor and Director of Structures Laboratory, Civil Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece. He is Honorary President of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), having served as its President in 2009-10, Deputy President in 2007-08 and Presidium Member since 2002. He is Director, International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). He holds MSc degrees in Civil Engineering (1977) and Nuclear Engineering (1978) and a PhD in Structural Engineering (1979), all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he taught at the Civil Engineering Department to the rank of Associate Professor.

As chairman of the CEN sub-committee for Eurocode 8: "Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance" (1999-2005), he led the development of its six parts into European Standards. He is Editorial Board Member in "Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics", "Earthquake Spectra", "Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering", "Journal of Earthquake Engineering", "Structural Concrete" & "Advances in Concrete Construction". He was Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd fib Congress, in Washington DC, June 2010 and the fib Symposium “Concrete: 21st Century Superhero – Building a Sustainable Future”, in London, June 2009 and of the Organising Committee of the fib Symposium “Concrete Structures in Seismic Regions”, in Athens, May 2003.

He authored “Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting of Concrete Buildings” (Springer, 2009, to be published in Chinese by China Architecture & Buildings Press), was the lead author of “Designers’ Guide to EN1998-1 and EN1998-5: Eurocode 8-Seismic actions, buildings, foundations & retaining structures” (ICE Publishing 2005, 2011), co-author of “Designers’ Guide to EN1998-2: Eurocode 8-Bridges” (ICE Publishing 2012) and author or co-author of 16 Chapters in international books. He is the editor or co-editor of four books published by Springer from 2010 to 2012. He has over 260 papers in international journals or conference proceedings. He received the 1993 Wason Medal of the American Concrete Institute for the best paper in materials.

He co-ordinated the European Community’s research projects “Seismic Performance Assessment & Rehabilitation - SPEAR” (2001-05, 1,344,442 €), “Advanced Centre of Excellence in Structural & Earthquake Engineering – ACES” (2008-12, 1,100,000 €) and “Seismic Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies – SERIES” (2009-13, 8,700,000 €).

Selected Publications

1. M.N. Fardis, Performance- and displacement-based seismic design and assessment of concrete structures in the Model Code 2010. Structural Concrete, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2013 (accepted).
2. D.E. Biskinis, M.N. Fardis, Stiffness and cyclic deformation capacity of circular RC columns with or without lap-splices and FRP wrapping, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 11, 2013 (accepted).
3. M.N. Fardis, G. Tsionis, Eigenvalues and modes of distributed-mass symmetric multispan bridges with restrained ends for seismic response analysis, Engineering Structures, 2013, 51, 141-149.
4. E. Strepelias, X. Palios, S.N. Bousias, M.N. Fardis, Experimental investigation of concrete frames infilled with RC for seismic rehabilitation Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 2013, 139, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000817.
5. M.N. Fardis, A. Schetakis, E. Strepelias, RC buildings retrofitted by converting frame bays into RC walls, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s10518-013-9435-6.
6. M.N. Fardis, A. Papailia, G. Tsionis, Seismic fragility of RC frame and wall-frame buildings designed to the EN-Eurocodes, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol.10(6), 2012, 1767-1793.
7. V.G. Bardakis, M.N. Fardis, A displacement-based seismic design procedure for concrete bridges having deck integral with the piers, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 9(2), 2011, 537-560.
8. V.G. Bardakis, M.N. Fardis, Nonlinear dynamic v elastic analysis for seismic deformation demands in concrete bridges having deck integral with the piers, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 9(2), 2011, 519-536.

Instruction

Undergraduate Courses: Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures Design of Special Concrete Structures

Postgraduate Courses: Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

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