Experimental equipment of my Ph.D. research: Long-Tor Resonant Column Apparatus, SDGEE - AUTh (2008)

Experimental equipment of my Ph.D. research: Long-Tor Resonant Column Apparatus, SDGEE - AUTh

Experimental equipment of my Ph.D. research: Direct Shear Test Apparatus, SDGEE - AUTh

Materials used in my Ph.D. research: Granulated rubber composed of recycled-shredded tires

Materials used in my Ph.D. research: Mixtures of physical sands with granulated rubber

http://euroseis.civil.auth.gr (courtesy of SDGEE - AUTh)

In-situ/geophysical survey - High pressure pipeline of Mavroneri-Antikyra (D.E.P.A.)

Symposium on Testing and Specification of Recycled Materials, Feb. 2-4, 2011 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Research group: Unit of Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (http://users.auth.gr/~kpitilak/index.html)

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2012)

Soil Mechanics and Geology Laboratory, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - High Pressure Triaxial Apparatus

Soil Mechanics and Geology Laboratory, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Custom-built micro-mechanical inter-particle loading apparatus, Soil Mechanics and Geology Laboratory, City University of Hong Kong

Image during an inter-particle shearing test on quartz particles: Non-conforming type of contact, Soil Mechanics and Geology Laboratory, City University of Hong Kong

Flattened surface of quartz particle using the light interferometry principle for the evaluation of the roughness (in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong)

Commercial micro-joints used as a bearing system in the custom-built micro-mechanical inter-particle loading apparatus of City University of Hong Kong

The geology trip with Matthew and our second year students from CityU, Hong Kong

The geology trip with Matthew and our second year students from CityU, Hong Kong

Spatial distribution of thickness (m) of potentially liquefied soil layers according to the 475 years earthquake scenario in Thessaloniki: Non-linear ground response analysis (1D) results at existing soil profiles (Senetakis, Anastasiadis, Pitilakis, 2008, "Liquefaction risk in Thessaloniki").

Spatial distribution of minimum initial depth (m) of potentially liquefied soil layers according to the 475 years earthquake scenario in Thessaloniki: Non-linear ground response analysis (1D) results at existing soil profiles (Senetakis, Anastasiadis, Pitilakis, 2008, "Liquefaction risk in Thessaloniki").

My Thai students

Calibration exercise of a Stokoe type resonant column (Soil Mechanics lab UNSW)

The Stokoe resonant column of UNSW and close-up view of the drive mechanism

The advanced combined dynamic simple shear - dynamic triaxial of UNSW

SEM image of recycled concrete aggregate (He & Senetakis, 2016, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 89, 208-218)

The 4th year class of Advanced Foundation Engineering - City University of Hong Kong Civil Engineering stream (March 2017)

The Hardin-type resonant column of UNSW: Li H., He H., Senetakis K., (2017). "Calibration exercise of a Hardin-type resonant column", Geotechnique, (accepted for publication – May 2017)

The Hardin-type resonant column of UNSW: Senetakis, K. and He H., (2017). Dynamic characterization of a biogenic granular soil with a resonant column of fixed-partly fixed boundary conditions. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 95, 180-187.

Capturing surface roughness and damage due to shearing for small sized grains applying white light interferometry (in collaboration with HKU): Senetakis K., Sandeep C.S., Todisco M.C. (2017). Dynamic inter-particle friction of crushed limestone surfaces, Tribology International, 111, 1-8.

Full instrumentation of vertical and lateral bender elements with local strain sensors of triaxial specimen (Bishop & Wesley stress path apparatus of CityU): Li W. and Senetakis K., (2017). "Dynamic shear modulus of three reconstituted soils from Panzhihua iron tailing dam", Journal of Geo-Engineering (accepted for publication – May 2017).

The effect of pre-loading and pre-shearing on the tangential stiffness of soil grain contacts: Sandeep C.S., Senetakis K., (2018). "Grain-Scale Mechanics of Quartz Sand under Normal and Tangential Loading", Tribology International, 117, 261-271.