Stavridis Andreas
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Patras 26504, Rio
Tel: 2610 20996567
astavridis@upatras.gr

Andreas Stavridis is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Patras. He obtained his diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, and his MSc and PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher. He has held tenure-track and tenured faculty positions in the University of Texas, Arlington and the University at Buffalo, where he also served as the Director of the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory. 

His research, so far funded by NSF, USGS, NIST, ATC, NYS-DOT, FHWA, and the private sector, concentrates on the assessment and improvement of the performance of existing and new RC and masonry structures under service and extreme loads. He tests large-scale structures in the laboratory with and without retrofit measures, as well as new and deteriorated buildings and bridges in the field; develops and validates detailed and simplified numerical and analytical tools to simulate the response of such structures to ordinary and extreme loads; uses system identification methods to enable localization and quantification of damage and its effects on the remaining strength of deteriorated structures. 

The methodology to assess infilled RC and steel frames Dr. Stavridis developed with his students is adopted by ASCE/SEI 41-17/23. A second methodology he proposed is adopted by ATC 78-7/ FEMA P-2018. He participated with his doctoral students in five NSF/USGS/ATC-funded reconnaissance trips in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake and Mexico City following the 2017 earthquake. During his sabbatical leave he worked as a Fulbright Specialist on a project focusing on the seismic assessment of school buildings in Argentina.

Dr. Stavridis has taught seven distinct semester-long undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of structural engineering, and he has organized outreach activities for students in elementary school through high school. Besides the courses in the US, he has taught a short course on Reinforced Masonry Structures at the University of Brescia, Italy; short courses funded by USAID on the Assessment of Infilled RC Frames in Kathmandu, Nepal; and a short course on Structural Health Monitoring in ESPE University in Quito, Ecuador.

  1. Bose S., A. Stavridis, P. Anastasopoulos, and K. Sett. “Fragility curves for a school building accounting for uncertainties in material properties using a data-driven surrogate model.”Journal of Disaster Prevention and Resilience. DOI: 10.20517/dpr.2023.20. September 2023.
  2. Martakis P., Y. Reuland, A. Stavridis, E. Chatzi. “Fusing damage-sensitive features and domain adaptation towards robust damage classification in real buildings.” Soil Dynamics and Earthqukae Engineering, 166(1):107739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. soildyn.2022.107739. March 2023.
  3. Singh R.R., M. Bruneau, A. Stavridis, K. Sett. “Resilience deficit index for quantification of resilience.” Resilience Cities and Structures, Vol 1(2): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcns.2022.06.001. June 2022.
  4. Bose S. and A. Stavridis. “A computationally efficient framework for the simulation of the nonlinear seismic performance of infilled RC frame buildings.” Engineering Structures. Vol(259):  114039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2022.114039. May 2022.
  5. Tsiavos A., A. Sextos, A. Stavridis, M. Dietz, L. Dihoru, and N. Alexander. “Experimental investigation of a highly efficient, low-cost  PVC-Rollers Sandwich (PVC-RS) seismic isolation.” Structures. Vol(33): 1590-1602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.05.040. October 2021.
  6. Tsiavos A., A. Sextos, A. Stavridis, M. Dietz, L. Dihoru, F. di Michele, N. Alexander. “Low-cost hybrid design of masonry structures for developing countries: shaking table tests.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 2021, Vol(146): 106675,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn. 2021.106675. July 2021.
  7. Akhlaghi M.M., S. Bose, M.E. Mohammadi, B. Moaveni, A. Stavridis, R.L. Wood. “Post-earthquake damage identification of an RC school building in Nepal using ambient vibration and point cloud data.” Engineering Structures. Vol(227): 111413. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111413. January 2021.
  8. Ghofrani F., S. Yousefianmoghadam, Q. He, A. Stavridis. “Rail breaks arrival rate prediction: a physics-informed data-driven analysis for railway tracks.” Measurement https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2020.108858, December 2020.
  9. Soti R., A. Barbosa, and A. Stavridis. “Numerical modeling of URM walls retrofitted with embedded reinforcing steel.” Frontiers in Built Environment. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2020.590302. November 2020.
  10. Lan Y. J., A. Stavridis, I. Kim, G. Diaz-Fanas, J. Heintz, L. Hernández-Bassal, E. Anzola, R. Berkowitz, S. Hussain, A. Jalalian,, E. Garini, O.J. Ktenidou, S. Yousefianmoghadam, H. Carrion, R. Valles-Mattox, V. Dominguez Maldonado, A.G. Contreras, S.R. Almanza Camacho, R.F. Bojórquez Hernández, V.A. Ruiz Medina, F. Vallejo Martinez, T. Vaxevanis, S. Nikolaou, R. Gilsanz. “ATC Mw7.1ATC Mw7.1 Puebla-Morelos Earthquake Reconnaissance Observations Part II: Structural Observations and Instrumentation.” Earthquake Spectra. Vol. 36(2_suppl): 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293020964828. December 2020. 
  11. G. Diaz-Fanas, E. Garini, O.J. Ktenidou, G. Gazetas, T. Vaxevanis, Y.J. Lan, J. Heintz, X. Ma, E. Korre, R. Valles-Mattox, A. Stavridis, I. Kim, L. Hernandez-Bassal, E. Anzola, R. Berkowitz, S. Hussain, A. Jalalian, H. Carrion, V. Dominguez Maldonado, A.G. Contreras, S.R. Almanza Camacho, R.F. Bojorquez Hernandez, V.A. Ruiz Medina, F. Vallejo Martinez, R. Gilsanz, S. Nikolaou. “ATC Mw7.1 Puebla-Morelos Earthquake Reconnaissance Observations Part I: Seismological, Geotechnical, Ground Motions, Site Effects, and GIS Mapping.” Earthquake Spectra. Vol. 36(2_suppl): 31-48. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/8755293020977520, December 2020.
  12. Alcocer S., A. Behrouzi, S. Brena, K. Elwood, A. Irfanoglu, M. Kreger, R. Lequesne, G. Mosqueda, S. Pujol, A. Puranam, M. Rodriguez, P. Shah, A. Stavridis, R. Wood. “Observations about the seismic response of RC buildings in Mexico City.” Earthquake Spectra.”Earthquake Spectra. 2020; doi:10.1177/8755293020942523. August 2020
  13. Tsiavos A., A. Sextos, A. Stavridis, M. Dietz, L. Dihoru, and N. Alexander. “Large-scale experimental investigation of a low-cost PVC ‘sand-wich’ (PVC-s) seismic isolation for developing countries” Earthquake Spectra. Published ahead of print. https://doi.org/10. 1177/8755293020935149. July 2020
  14. Yousefianmoghadam S., M. Song, M. Mohammadi, B. Packard, A. Stavridis, B. Moaveni, R.L. Wood. “Nonlinear dynamic testing of an RC frame building at different damage levels.” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 2020:1-22. https:// doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3271. May 2020.