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Demitris A. Kouris, Department Head of Mechanical Engineering
Room 2052, Engineering Building
University of Wyoming
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. 3295
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307.766.5464
Demitris Kouris received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982, and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. In the fall of 2001, after fourteen years with the faculty of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Arizona State University, he joined the University of Wyoming where he currently serves as Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering.
Research Interests
Applied mechanics; particularly micromechanics of defects in solids, behavior of interfaces, thin-film growth, and mechanisms of failure in composite materials. Details here
Selected Publications
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. PDF Link
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. PDF Link
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. PDF Link
Kukta, R., Peralta, A., and Kouris, D., "Surface Steps: from Atomistics to Continuum," ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 69, 2002, pp. 443-450. PDF Link
Kouris, D., Peralta, A., and Sieradzki, K., "Surface Islands and their Elastic Interaction with Adatoms," Surface Science, Vol. 445, 2000, pp. 420-429. PDF Link
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. PDF Link
Qin, S., Kouris, D., Peralta, A., and Hirose, Y., "Micromechanical Analysis of Surface Defects, " Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Vol. 1, 1996, pp. 369 - 391.
Lubarda, V. and Kouris, D., "Stress Fields due to Dislocation Walls in Infinite and Semi-Infinite Bodies, " Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1996, pp. 169 - 190.