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 Prof. Elias C. Aifantis Lab of Mechanics and Materials, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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| Title: Extension of the ILG Mechanics Framework: Heat, diffusion and Chemical Reaction | |
| Abstract: The ILG (Internal Length Gradient) Mechanics framework whose origin goes back in the mid 1980s, has been successfully applied to revisit elasticity and plasticity theories across materials and scales. Recently it has been extended to include heat conduction, mass diffusion and chemical reactions. This extension is reviewed and pertinent applications to advanced technology and biology are discussed. | |
| Biography: Elias C. Aifantis is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Michigan Technological University/USA, as well as Mercator fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University/Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture/China. Formerly, he has also been a Distinguished Faculty Advisor at King Abdulaziz University/Saudi Arabia, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/Russia and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as MegaGrant Director at Togliatti State University /Russia. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has coined the terms dislocation patterning, material instabilities, gradient plasticity/elasticity, chemo/nanomechanics, and pioneered internal length gradient (ILG) theories in these fields. Currently, he is extending the ILG framework to revisit electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations, as well as gravitation and Newton’s Law. He has published over 339 articles and received about 11,704 citations with 54 h-index (Scopus); 10,832 citations with 53 h-index (Web of Science); 17,860 citations with 66 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering. | |
