Dr. Theocharis Baxevanis

Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Office Location N232 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-9165

Fax 713-743-4503

Email tbaxevanis [at] uh.edu

Education

Ph.D., Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003

Certificate in Construction Science and Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1998

BSc, Dept. of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1996

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2022 –

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2016–2022

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2016–2019

TEES Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2014–2016

Research Associate & Lecturer, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2010–2014

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece, 2005–2010

Research Associate, Génie Civil et Mécanique, École Centrale de Nantes, France, 2004–2005

Research Associate, Formation Physics, SINTEF Petroleum Research, Norway, 2003–2004

Professional and Scientific Affiliations

Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART)

ASM International

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Society of Engineering Sciences (SES)

Director of Operations, Center for Intelligent Multifunctional Materials & Structures (CiMMS), Texas A&M Experimentation Station, 2014 – 2016

Courses Taught

MECE 6377: Continuum Mechanics

MECE 6397: Micromechanics

MECE 6384: Methods of Applied Math I

MECE 3369: Solid Mechanics

MECE 3336: Mechanics II–Dynamics

MECE 3381: Finite Elements For Mech. Eng.

MECE 4331: Design of Machine Elements

Research Interests

Deformation and failure response of inelastic materials — Continuum thermodynamics; Fracture mechanics; Computational micromechanics; Localization and bifurcation

Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member: Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Guest Editor: Special Issue “Mechanics and Physics of Active Materials" in Shape Memory and Superelasticity, April 2021

Professional Committees: Adaptive Structures and Material Systems (ASMS) Group, Fracture and Failure Mechanics Technical Committee of ASME’s Applied Mechanics Division, Multifunctional Materials Committee of ASME’s Applied Mechanics Division

Selected Publications

Phase-field description of fracture in NiTi single crystals, D Kavvadias, T Baxevanis, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 419, 116677
A finite-strain phase-field description of thermomechanically induced fracture in shape memory alloys, MM Hasan, M Zhang, T Baxevanis, Shape Memory and Superelasticity 8 (4), 356-372
- A finite strain thermomechanically-coupled constitutive model for phase transformation and (transformation-induced) plastic deformation in NiTi single crystals, MA Hossain, T Baxevanis, International Journal of Plasticity 139, 102957
A top-down characterization of NiTi single-crystal inelastic properties within confidence bounds through Bayesian inference, P Honarmandi, MA Hossain, R Arroyave, T Baxevanis, Shape Memory and Superelasticity 7, 50-64
On the driving force for crack growth during thermal actuation of shape memory alloys, T Baxevanis, AF Parrinello, DC Lagoudas, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 89, 255-271
- Review and perspectives: shape memory alloy composite systems, BT Lester, T Baxevanis, Y Chemisky, DC Lagoudas, Acta Mechanica 226, 3907-3960
Fracture mechanics of shape memory alloys: review and perspectives, T Baxevanis, DC Lagoudas, International Journal of Fracture 191, 191-213

Books / Book Chapters

Baxevanis, Th., A. Solomou, I. Karaman and D. Lagoudas, “Full-field micromechanics of precipitated shape memory alloys” in Micromechanics and Nanomechanics of Composite Solids, Eds. George Weng and Shaker Meguid, Springer Verlag, 2017.
Baxevanis, Th. and E. Papamichos, “Compactive cataclastic flow in Tuffeau de Maastricht calcarenite: Mechanical deformation and permeability reduction” in Bifurcations, Instabilities, Degradation in Geomechanics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 95–126, 2007 (edited by George E. Exadaktylos and Ioannis G. Vardoulakis).