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Overview

Kostas Senetakis is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research is primarily situated within the field of engineering, with a focus on civil and structural engineering. Key subfields of study include mechanics of materials, computational mechanics, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as ocean engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to granular flow and fluidized beds, geotechnical engineering and soil stabilization, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, and geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. Their work also involves rock mechanics and modeling, landslides and related hazards, and adhesion, friction, and surface interactions.

Frequent collaborators in Kostas Senetakis's research include Huan He, Meghdad Payan, Sathwik S. Kasyap, Siyue Li, and Jing Ren. Their contributions appear alongside these coauthors in multiple peer-reviewed publications.

Common venues for their published research are:

  • Granular Matter
  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Construction and Building Materials
  • Acta Geotechnica
  • Computers and Geotechnics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kostas Senetakis include:

  • Predicting residual friction angle of lunar regolith based on Chang'e-5 lunar samples, 2023, Science Bulletin
  • Scale and surface morphology effects on the micromechanical contact behavior of granular materials, 2021, Tribology International
  • DEM analysis of small and small-to-medium strain shear modulus of sands, 2021, Computers and Geotechnics
  • Effect of Lime Stabilization and Partial Clinoptilolite Zeolite Replacement on the Behavior of a Silt-Sized Low-Plasticity Soil Subjected to Freezing-Thawing Cycles, 2021, Coatings
  • Lower bound analysis of modified pseudo-dynamic lateral earth pressures for retaining wall-backfill system with depth-varying damping using FEM-Second order cone programming, 2021, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Best Publications

  • Dynamic properties of dry sand/rubber (SRM) and gravel/rubber (GRM) mixtures in a wide range of shearing strain amplitudes

    Kostas Senetakis;Anastasios Anastasiadis;Kyriazis Pitilakis

  • Small-Strain Shear Modulus and Damping Ratio of Sand-Rubber and Gravel-Rubber Mixtures

    Anastasios Anastasiadis;Kostas Senetakis;Kostas Senetakis;Kyriazis Pitilakis

  • Effect of particle shape and validity of Gmax models for sand: A critical review and a new expression

    Meghdad Payan;Arman Khoshghalb;Kostas Senetakis;Nasser Khalili

  • The inter-particle coefficient of friction at the contacts of Leighton Buzzard sand quartz minerals

    Kostas Senetakis;Matthew R. Coop;M. Cristina Todisco

  • The Small-Strain Shear Modulus and Damping Ratio of Quartz and Volcanic Sands

    Kostas Senetakis;Anastasios Anastasiadis;Kyriazis Pitilakis

  • Small-strain stiffness of sand subjected to stress anisotropy

    Meghdad Payan;Arman Khoshghalb;Kostas Senetakis;Nasser Khalili

  • Effect of rubber size on the behaviour of sand-rubber mixtures: A numerical investigation

    J.C. Lopera Perez;C.Y. Kwok;K. Senetakis

  • Normalized shear modulus reduction and damping ratio curves of quartz sand and rhyolitic crushed rock

    Kostas Senetakis;Anastasios Anastasiadis;Kyriazis Pitilakis

  • Grain-scale mechanics of quartz sand under normal and tangential loading

    C.S. Sandeep;K. Senetakis

  • Multiple contact compression tests on sand particles

    M.C. Todisco;W. Wang;M.R. Coop;K. Senetakis

  • Characterization of the small-strain dynamic behaviour of silty sands; contribution of silica non-plastic fines content

    Meghdad Payan;Kostas Senetakis;Arman Khoshghalb;Nasser Khalili

  • Tangential load-deflection behaviour at the contacts of soil particles

    K. Senetakis;M. R. Coop;M. C. Todisco

  • Effect of Gradation and Particle Shape on Small-Strain Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s Ratio of Sands

    Meghdad Payan;Kostas Senetakis;Arman Khoshghalb;Nasser Khalili

  • The Development of a New Micro-Mechanical Inter-Particle Loading Apparatus

    Kostas Senetakis;Matthew Coop

  • Micromechanical analyses of the effect of rubber size and content on sand-rubber mixtures at the critical state

    J.C. Lopera Perez;J.C. Lopera Perez;C.Y. Kwok;K. Senetakis

  • The mechanics of a silt-sized gold tailing

    W. Li;M.R. Coop;K. Senetakis;F. Schnaid

  • An experimental micromechanical study of sand grain contacts behavior from different geological environments

    C.S. Sandeep;H. He;K. Senetakis

  • An experimental investigation of the microslip displacement of geological materials

    C.S. Sandeep;K. Senetakis

  • The dynamics of a pumice granular soil in dry state under isotropic resonant column testing

    Kostas Senetakis;Anastasios Anastasiadis;Kyriazis Pitilakis;Matthew R. Coop

  • Effects of state of test sample, specimen geometry and sample preparation on dynamic properties of rubber–sand mixtures

    K. Senetakis;A. Anastasiadis

  • Influence of particle shape on small-strain damping ratio of dry sands

    M. Payan;K. Senetakis;A. Khoshghalb;N. Khalili

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Richard Coop
Matthew Richard Coop University College London
Kyriazis Pitilakis
Kyriazis Pitilakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nasser Khalili
Nasser Khalili University of New South Wales
Jidong Zhao
Jidong Zhao Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Thorsten Pöschel
Thorsten Pöschel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jian-Hua Yin
Jian-Hua Yin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Charles Wang Wai Ng
Charles Wang Wai Ng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zhen-Yu Yin
Zhen-Yu Yin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Qinghua Guo
Qinghua Guo University of Wollongong
Clarence Choi
Clarence Choi University of Hong Kong

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