Demitris Kouris
Texas Christian University
College of Science & Engineering
TCU Box 298960 Fort Worth, TX 76129
PH: (817) 257-7727
FAX: (817) 257-7736
Demitris Kouris has been serving as the Dean of the College of Science & Engineering and as a member of the faculty of the Departments of Engineering and Physics at Texas Christian University since July 2009. He received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University in 1987. After 14 years at Arizona State University, he joined the University of Wyoming as Dept. Head of Mechanical Engineering in 2001. Since February 2008 and until he resigned to join TCU, he concurrently served as the Director of the Nano and Bio Mechanics Program at the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of ASME.
Research Interests
- Applied Mechanics
- Nanomechanics of Surfaces and Interfaces
- Mechanisms of Failure in Composite Materials
- Thin-Film Growth
Teaching Interests
- Solid Mechanics
- Applied Mathematics
- Composite Materials
- Nanomechanics
Selected Publications
C. Mi, N. Lakhera, D. Kouris, and D. Buttry, "Repassivation behaviour of stressed aluminium electrodes in aqueous chloride solutions", Corrosion Science, Vol. 54, 2012, pp. 10-16.
C. Mi, D. Buttry, P. Sharma and D. Kouris, "Atomistic insights into dislocation-based mechanisms of void growth and coalescence", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 59, 2011, pp. 1858-1871.
Mi, Changwen and Kouris, D., “Nanoparticles and the Influence of Interface Elasticity,” Theoret. Appl. Mech., Vol. 35 (1-3), 2008, pp. 267-286.
Kouris D., Arai, Y., and Yamaguchi, T., “On the Elastic Interaction between a Surface Step and an Edge Dislocation,” Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 13(3-4), 2008, pp. 336-356.
Mi, C., Jun, S., Kouris, D., and Kim, S., “Atomistic Calculations of Interface Elastic Properties in Noncoherent Metallic Bilayers,” Physical Review B, Vol. 77(7), 2008, article no. 075425.
Mi, Changwen and Kouris, Demitris, “The Role of Interface Stress for Nanoparticles Embedded in Films,” JSME Journal of Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering, Vol.1(10), 2007, pp.1219-1230.
Kouris, D. and Mi, Changwen "Surface strain due to embedded epitaxial islands," Surface Science, Vol. 601(3), 2007, pp. 757-762.
Mi, Changwen and Kouris, D., "Nanoparticles under the Influence of Surface/Interface Elasticity," Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol. 1 (4), 2006, pp. 763-792.
Liu, P., Kukta, R., and Kouris, D., "Strain-Modulated Adatom and Surface Vacancy Pair Interactions," ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 72 (3), 2005, pp. 400-407.
Kukta, R. and Kouris, D., "On the Mechanisms of Epitaxial Island Alignment on Patterned Substrates," Journal of Applied Physics 97 (3): Art. No. 033527 FEB 1 2005.
Kukta, R., Liu, P., and Kouris, D., "On the Dependence of Adatom Interactions on Strain," Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 51 (12), 2003, pp. 2149-2167.
Kukta, R., Kouris, D., and Sieradzki, K., "Adatoms and their Relation to Surface Stress," Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 51 (7), 2003, pp. 1243-1266.
Kukta, R., Peralta, A., and Kouris, D., "Elastic Interaction of Surface Steps: Effect of Atomic-Scale Roughness," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88:18, 2002, art. no. 186102.
Kukta, R., Peralta, A., and Kouris, D., "Surface Steps: from Atomistics to Continuum," ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 69, 2002, pp. 443-450.
Kouris,D., Peralta, A., and Sieradzki, K., "Surface Islands and their Elastic Interaction with Adatoms," Surface Science, Vol. 445, 2000, pp. 420-429.
Peralta, A., Kouris, D., Knap, J., and Sieradzki, K., "Eigenstrains and the Elastic Field of an Adatom, "Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 46:9, 1998, pp. 1557-1579.