College of Engineering and Computing
Faculty and Staff
Dimitris Rizos
| Title: | Director, Railway Engineering Graduate Certificate Associate Professor; Associate Chair |
| Department: | Civil and Environmental Engineering College of Engineering and Computing |
| Email: | rizos@cec.sc.edu |
| Website: | http://ce.sc.edu/rizos/ |
| Phone: | 803-777-6166 |
| Fax: | 803-777-0670 |
| Office: | 300 Main Street Room C208 |
Research Interests
His areas of interest are in Structural Mechanics with emphasis on Railway and Highway Infrastructure, High Speed Rail Systems, and Civilian and Military Bridges. Dr. Rizos expertise is in the area of structural mechanics and modeling with emphasis on: (i) Development and implementation of computational methods (BEM, FEM, DEM, Hybrid Methods) for problems in wave propagation, soil-structure interaction, structural dynamics, and transient analysis of multi-phase media, such as the train-rail-trackbed-soil interaction problems; (ii) Analysis and Design of freight, passenger and High Speed Railway infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, tracks, etc); (iii) Bridge Engineering and High Performance Materials for civilian and military applications.
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1993
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of South Carolina, 1989
- Diploma in Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 1987