Brief CV:

Charis Gantes is Professor and Director of the Institute of Steel Structures in the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He attended the German Highschool of Athens (Dörpfeld Gymnasium), and then obtained a Civil Engineering Diploma from NTUA in 1985, and a Master’s (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 1994 he is faculty member in the Institute of Steel Structures at NTUA, where he is teaching the courses “Steel structures I”, “Steel structures II”, “Nonlinear behavior of steel structures”, “Cable and membrane structures” and “Steel structures for marine applications”. His research activity is in the area of structural behavior, analysis and design under extreme loads, including seismic, wind and blast, leading structures to nonlinear response, with emphasis on steel structures and in the evaluation of the ultimate strength of steel members, connections and structures. He is particularly interested in steel structures for energy applications, such as wind turbine towers, buried pipelines and power plant facilities. He is author of one book in English, on deployable structures, and three books in Greek, on design of unconventional steel structures, nonlinear behavior of steel structures and tension structures and co-author of two collective volumes. He is also author of more than 10 book chapters, 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and 175 conference papers. His research work has received more than 2000 citations, excluding self-citations and citations by co-authors. He is member of the Greek mirror Committee of CEN/TC250, ELOT/TE67 Committee on “Eurocodes”, coordinator of the Greek mirror Group of CEN/TC250/SC3, ELOT TE67/OE3 “Eurocode 3” and representative of Greece in Committee CEN/TC250/SC3 for Eurocode 3 of the European Committee for Standardization, CEN. He is Member of two CEN Project Teams on Eurocode 3, namely SC3/T1 on EN 1993-1-1 (General rules and rules for buildings) and SC3/T11 on EN 1993-3 (Masts, Towers and Chimneys), which are part of the development of the second generation of Structural Eurocodes. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) and correspondent for Greece of Structural Engineering International (SEI), the journal of the International Association for Bridges and Structural Engineering (IABSE). He is member of several Greek and international scientific and professional organizations, reviewer for more than 50 international journals and co-organizer of Greek and international conferences. He has been invited speaker at several Greek and international Universities and at continuing education seminars in Greece and Cyprus. In addition, he is active in structural design and consulting in Greece and abroad, having participated in design projects including steel and reinforced concrete buildings, condition assessment and strengthening of old steel, reinforced concrete and masonry structures, large-span steel structures for athletic, industrial and commercial facilities, power plant and waste treatment plant structures and other energy related industrial facilities, wind turbine towers and foundation, buried pipelines transporting oil and natural gas, port and marine facilities, guyed towers, temporary bracing for deep excavations, structures for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, highway infrastructure projects including structures for “Attiki Odos”, the Athens peripheral highway, underground structures including tunnels and stations for “Attiko Metro”, the Athens subway and participation in expert committees for the resolution of technical differences.

Courses:

1. Steel Structures I
2. Steel Structures ΙΙ
3. Non Linear Behavior of Steel Structures
4. Design of cable and membrane structures (post-graduate)
5. Steel structures for marine applications (post-graduate)

Selected Journal Publications:

1. Gantes, C.J., Villi Billi, M., Güldogan, M. and Gül, S., “A Novel Tripod Concept for Onshore Wind Turbine Towers”, Energies, Vol. 14, Issue 18, 5772, 2021.
2. Vernardos, S.M., Gantes, C.J., Badogiannis, E.G. and Lignos, X.A., “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Steel-Grout-Steel Sandwich Shells for Wind Turbine Towers”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 184, 106815, Sep. 2021.
3. Thanasoulas, I.D. and Gantes, C.J., “Stability Criteria for Roller-Bent Circular-Hollow-Section Steel Arches”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 176, 106431, Jan. 2021.
4. Sakka, E.G., Bilionis, D.V., Vamvatsikos, D. and Gantes, C.J., “Onshore Wind Farm Siting Prioritization Based on Investment Profitability for Greece”, Renewable Energy, Vol. 146, pp. 2827-2839, Feb. 2020.
5. Valsamis, A.I., Bouckovalas, G.D. and Gantes, C.J., “Alternative Design of Buried Pipelines at Active Fault Crossings Using Flexible Joints”, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Vol. 180, 104038, Jan. 2020.
6. Thanasoulas, I.D. and Gantes, C.J., “Numerical Investigation on the Residual Stresses of Roller-Bent Circular-Hollow-Sections”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 164, 105777, Jan. 2020.
7. Vernardos, S. and Gantes, C.J., “Experimental Behavior of Concrete-Filled Double-Skin Steel Tubular (CFDST) Stub Members under Axial Compression: A Comparative Review”, Structures, Vol. 22, pp. 383-404, Dec. 2019.
8. Thanasoulas, I.D., Douthe, C.Ε., Gantes, C.J. and Lignos, X.A., “Influence of Roller Bending on RHS Steel Arches: Experimental and Numerical Investigation”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 131, pp. 668-680, Oct. 2018.
9. Thanasoulas, I.D., Vardakoulias, I.K., Kolaitis, D.I., Gantes, C.J. and Founti, M.A., “Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Simulation for the Performance-based Fire Design of CFS Drywall Systems”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 145, pp. 196-209, June 2018.
10. Vassilopoulou, I., Petrini, F. and Gantes, C.J., “Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Cable Nets Subjected to Wind Loading”, Structures, Vol. 10, pp. 170–183, May 2017.
11. Melissianos, V.E., Vamvatsikos, D. and Gantes, C.J., “Performance Assessment of Buried Pipelines at Fault Crossings”, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 201–218, Feb. 2017.
12. Melissianos, V.E., Lignos, X.A., Bachas, K.K. and Gantes, C.J., “Experimental Investigation of Pipes with Flexible Joints under Fault Rupture”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 128, pp. 633-648, Jan. 2017.
13. Melissianos, V.E. and Gantes, C.J., “Evaluation of Seismic Protection Methods for Buried Fuel Pipelines Subjected to Fault Rupture”, Frontiers in Built Environment, Vol. 2, Article 34, 2016.
14. Olmati, P., Petrini, F., Vamvatsikos, D. and Gantes, C.J., “Simplified Fragility-Based Risk Analysis for Impulse Governed Blast Loading Scenarios”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 117, pp. 457–469, June 2016.
15. Kalochairetis, K.E. Gantes, C.J. and Lignos, X.A., “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Eccentrically Loaded Laced Built-Up Steel Columns”, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 101, pp. 66–81, October 2014.

Selected Conference Papers:

1. Koulatsou, K.G., Chondrogiannis, K.-A. and Gantes, C.J., “Buckling Verification of Manhole Area of Tubular Steel Wind Turbine Towers via Non-linear Finite Element Analysis”, ce/papers Special Issue: EUROSTEEL 2021 Sheffield — Steel's coming home, Vol. 4, Issue 2-4, pp. 2425-2433, the 9th European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, Sheffield, UK, 1-3 Sep. 2021.
2. Melissianos, V.E. and Gantes, C.J., “Protection Measures for Buried Steel Pipelines Subjected to Fault Rupture”, ICONHIC2019, 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, Workshop on Natural Hazards & Pipeline Infrastructure, Chania, Greece, 23-26 June 2019.
3. Gantes, C.J., “Overview of Scissor-Type, Bi-Stable Deployable Structures”, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2018 - Creativity in Structural Design, Boston, U.S.A., 16-20 July 2018.

Selected Books:

1. Gantes, C.J., “Nonlinear Structural Behavior – Emphasis on Metal Structures”, Hellenic Academic EBooks, 2016 (in Greek).
2. Vayas, Ι., Gantes, C.J., Ermopoulos, Ι. and Ioannidis, G., “Application Examples in Special topics of Steel Structures”, Kleidarithmos Editions, Athens, 2013 (in Greek).
3. Gantes, C.J., "Deployable Structures – Analysis and Design", WIT Press, Southampton, 2001.

Selected Book Chapters:

1. Melissianos, V.E. and Gantes, C.J., “Numerical Modeling Aspects of Buried Pipeline – Fault Crossing”, Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering - Vol. 3, edited by M. Papadrakakis, V. Plevris and N.D. Lagaros, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 44, Springer Verlag, 2017.
2. Gantes, C.J., "Seismic Analysis of Steel Buildings: Numerical Modeling", Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, edited by M. Beer, E. Patelli, I. Kougioumtzoglou and I. Siu-Kui Au, Springer Verlag, 2015.
3. Gantes, C.J., “Deployable Structures”, Fifty Years of Progress for Shell and Spatial Structures: 50th Jubilee of the IASS, edited by I. Mungan and J.F. Abel, pp. 373-390, 2011.