Ph.D.
"Mixed Mode I and II Fully Plastic Crack Growth from Simulated Weld Defects," September 1985, Advisor: Professor Frank A. McClintock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
M.Sc.
"Dynamics of the Guyed Tower Offshore Platform," June 1981, Advisor: Professor Michael Triantafyllou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1. Carlson R.L. and Kardomateas G.A., An Introduction to Fatigue in Metals and Composites, Chapman and Hall, London, 1996.
2. Carlsson L. and Kardomateas, G.A. Structural and Failure Mechanics of Sandwich Composites, Springer, 2011.
3. Carlson R.L., Kardomateas, G.A. and Craig, J.I., Mechanics of Failure Mechanisms in Structures, Springer, 2012.
1. Kardomateas G.A. and Rajapakse Y.D.S. (editors), Failure Mechanics in Advanced Polymeric Composites, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) AMD-Vol. 196, New York, 1994.
2. Rajapakse Y.D.S. and Kardomateas G.A. (editors), Thick Composites for Load Bearing Structures, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) AMD-Vol. 235, New York, 1999.
3. Rajapakse Y.D.S., Kardomateas G.A. and Birman V. (editors), Mechanics of Sandwich Structures, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) AD-vol. 62/AMD-Vol. 245, New York, 2000
4. Birman V. and Kardomateas, G.A. (editors), Contemporary Research in Engineering Mechanics (papers collected from the Symposium in honor of Prof G.J. Simitses), ME2001, the 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 11-16, 2001, New York, NY.
5. Handbook of Damage Mechanics: Nano to Macro Scale for Materials and Structures, Springer, 2014 (Associate Editor) edited the part on “Micromechanics of Damage for Laminated Composites”.
1. Kardomateas, G.A., "Geometric Nonlinearities in the Postbuckling Behavior of Delaminated Composites," in Interlaminar Fracture in Composites, pp. 269-284, part of the "Key Engineering Material" series, 1989, Trans Tech Publications, Ltd., Switzerland.
2. Kardomateas G.A., ''Boundary-Layer Transient Hygroscopic Stresses in Orthotropic Thick Shells'', in Non-Classical Problems of the Theory and Behavior of Structures exposed to Complex Environmental Conditions, edited by L. Librescu, AMD-Vol. 164, (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp. 17-31, 1993.
3. Kardomateas G.A., ''Bifurcation of Equilibrium in Thick Transversely Isotropic Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression'', in Mechanics of Composite Materials-Nonlinear Effects, edited by M.W. Hyer, AMD-Vol. 159, (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp. 113-126, 1993.
4. Kardomateas G.A. and Chung C.B., ''Buckling of a Thick Orthotropic Shell Under External Pressure Including Hygroscopic Effects'', in Mechanics of Thick Composites, edited by Y.D.S. Rajapakse, AMD-Vol. 162, (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp. 213-226, 1993.
5. Kardomateas G.A., ''The Initial Postbuckling and Growth Behavior of Internal Delaminations in Composite Plates'', in Composite Materials and Structures, edited by C.W.Bert, V. Birman and D. Hui, AMD-Vol. 179 (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp. 175-189, 1993.
6. Kardomateas G.A., Carlson R.L. and Ferrie C.H., "A Micromechanical Model for the Fiber Bridging of Macro-Cracks in Composite Plates", in Failure Mechanics in Advanced Polymeric Composites, ASME AMD-vol. 196, (G.A. Kardomateas and Y.D.S. Rajapakse editors), pp. 75-92, 1994.
7. Kardomateas G.A., Pelegri A.A. and Malik B., "Growth of Internal Delaminations Under Cyclic Compression in Composite Plates", in Failure Mechanics in Advanced Polymeric Composites, ASME AMD-vol. 196, (G.A. Kardomateas and Y.D.S. Rajapakse editors), pp. 13-29, 1994.
8. Kardomateas G.A., "Three-Dimensional Elasticity Solution for the Buckling of Moderately Thick Orthotropic Columns", in Contemporary Research in Engineering Science, (edited by R.C. Batra), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 238-253, 1995.
9. Kardomateas G.A., "Predicting the Growth of Internal Delaminations Under Monotonic or Cyclic Compression" Fracture of Composites, part of the "Key Engineering Material" series, vols. 121-122, 1996, Transtec Publications, Ltd., Switzerland, pp. 441-462.
10. Kardomateas G.A., "Orthotropic Column Buckling: The Euler and Engesser/Timoshenko Formulas versus an Elasticity Solution", in Analysis and Design Issues for Modern Aerospace Vehicles, ASME AD-Vol. 55 (G.J. Simitses editor) pp. 35-48, 1997.
11. Kardomateas G.A., "Growth of Face-Sheet Delaminations in Sandwich Beams Under Compression or Bending", in Recent Advances in Mechanics of Aerospace Structures and Materials, ASME AD-Vol. 56 (B.V. Sankar editor) pp. 173-179, 1998.
12. Li R., Frostig Y. and Kardomateas G.A., “Buckling and Postbuckling of Sandwich Beams with Delaminated Faces Based on Higher Order Core Theory”, in ASME AD-vol. 58, Advances in Aerospace Materials and Structures, edited by G. Newaz, pp. 1-9, 1999.
13. Huang H., Kardomateas G.A. and La Saponara V., “Mixed Mode Interface Cracks in a Bi-Material Half Plane and a Bi-Material Strip”, in ASME AMD-vol. 235, Thick Composites for Load Bearing Structures, edited by Y.D.S. Rajapakse and G.A. Kardomateas, pp. 21-32, 1999.
14. La Saponara V., Huang H. and Kardomateas G.A., “Crack Branching Off an Interface Between Anisotropic Thin Strips”, in ASME MD-vol. 86/AMD-vol. 232, Durability and Damage Tolerance of Composite Materials and Structures-1999, edited by A. Pelegri, W.S. Chan, A. Haque and M.V. Hosur, pp. 115-123, 1999.
15. Kardomateas G.A., “Postbuckling and Growth Behavior of Face-Sheet Delaminations in Sandwich Composites”, in ASME AMD-vol. 235, Thick Composites for Load Bearing Structures, edited by Y.D.S. Rajapakse and G.A. Kardomateas, pp. 51-60, 1999.
16. Kardomateas G.A. and Huang H., “An Asymptotic Solution for the Response of Face-Sheet Delaminations/Debonds Under Compression”, in ASME AD-vol. 62/AMD-vol. 245, Mechanics of Sandwich Structures, edited by Y.D.S. Rajapakse, G.A. Kardomateas and V. Birman, pp. 133-142, 2000.
17. Kardomateas G.A., “Elasticity Solutions for a Sandwich Orthotropic Cylindrical Shell Under External/Internal Pressure and Axial Load”, in ASME AD-vol. 62/AMD-vol. 245, Mechanics of Sandwich Structures, edited by Y.D.S. Rajapakse, G.A. Kardomateas and V. Birman, pp. 191-200, 2000.
18. Kardomateas G.A., “Global Buckling and Initial Post-buckling Behavior of Sandwich Beams Including Transverse Shear”, in ASME AD-vol. 65/AMD-vol. 249, Contemporary Research in Engineering Mechanics (papers collected from the Symposium in honor of Prof G.J. Simitses), ME2001, edited by V. Birman and G.A. Kardomateas, pp. 207-216, 2001.
19. Li R. and Kardomateas, G.A., “On delamination branching of anisotropic bimaterial media” in ASME AD-vol. 66 (A.M. Waas and J. Whitcomb edts) pp. 111-120, 2003.
20. Kardomateas G.A., La Saponara V. and Simitses G.J., “Experimental Observations on the Delamination Behavior in Composite Structures”, in Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics, edited by Emmanuel E. Gdoutos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, pp. 645-660 2002.
21. Kardomateas G.A. and Simitses G.J., "Bucking of Long Sandwich Cylindrical Shells Under External Pressure" in Recent Advances in Composite Materials, edited by Emmanuel E. Gdoutos and Z. Marioli-Riga, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, pp. 291-300, 2003.
22. Li, R. and Kardomateas, G.A., "A Study of Interface Crack Branching in Dissimilar Anisotropic Elastic Bimaterial Solids", in Modern Problems of Deformable Body Mechanics, dedicated to Prof. Perikles Theokaris, 2005.
23. Liu L., Holmes, J.W., Kardomateas G.A. and Birman, V., “Compressive Response of Composites Under Combined Fire and Compression Loading”, in Modeling of Naval Composite Structures in Fire, edited by L. Couchman and A.P. Mouritz, published by the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pp. 109-142, 2006.
24. Kardomateas G.A., “Elasticity Solutions for the Buckling of Thick Composite and Sandwich Cylindrical Shells Under External Pressure”, in “Major Accomplishments in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures – An Anthology of ONR Sponsored Research,” I.M. Daniel, E.E. Gdoutos and Y.D.S. Rajapakse Editors, pp. 339-363, Springer, 2009.
25. Kardomateas G.A. and Geubelle P.H., “Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics in Aerospace Structures”, Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, Volume 3: Structural technology, Chapter 3.1.5, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in press, 2010.
26. Kardomateas G.A., “Structural Integrity and Residual Strength of Composites Exposed to Fire”, in Recent Advances in Mechanics (dedicated to the Late Professor P.S. Theocaris), A.N. Kounadis and E.E. Gdoutos, Editors, pp. 207-226, Springer, 2011.