Faculty 
Yannis Korkolis, Assistant Professor
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Office: Kingsbury Hall W131 |
CredentialsPh.D. – Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009 |
Prof. Korkolis joined the department in Fall 2009. He is trained as a mechanical engineer with emphasis on mechanical constructions and on manufacturing, while his graduate studies are in solid mechanics. His research aims at interfacing mechanics of materials, constitutive modeling and failure, using numerical methods and experimental techniques. It is motivated by – but not limited to – actual manufacturing problems, such as those encountered in sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming operations. He has worked on constitutive modeling of advanced aluminum alloys, formability and failure prediction, modeling of machining operations and tube hydroforming.
His current research interests include:
- Plasticity and constitutive modeling
- Ductile fracture and formability
- High rate forming processes
- Sheet metal forming
- Tube hydroforming
Prof. Korkolis is teaching ME 542 – Mechanical Dissection and Design Analysis in Fall 2009.
Representative publications:
- Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, “Hydroforming of anisotropic aluminum tubes. Part II: advanced constitutive models”, (in preparation)
- Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, “Hydroforming of anisotropic aluminum tubes. Part I: experiments & analysis”, (in preparation)
- Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, “Path-dependent failure of inflated aluminum tubes”, (in press, International Journal of Plasticity)
- Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, “Inflation and burst of anisotropic aluminum tubes, part II: an advanced yield function including deformation-induced anisotropy”, International Journal of Plasticity, 24/9 (2008) 1625-1637
- Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, “Inflation and burst of anisotropic aluminum tubes for hydroforming applications”, International Journal of Plasticity, 24/3 (2008) 509-543