Professor
Daniel attended the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece, and receive B.S.,
M.S., and Ph. D. degrees from the Illinois Institute
of Technology. Prior to his appointment at Northwestern
University, he was Professor and Director of the
Mechanics of Material Laboratory at the Illinois
Institute of Technology.
His
research encompasses many areas of mechanics and
materials with emphasis on experimental mechanics
and composite materials. In the latter, he has
worked on all aspects of the area including processing,
micromechanics, characterization, fracture and
damage mechanics, nondestructive evaluation and
life prediction. He has pioneered test methods
for characterization of polymer, ceramic and metal
matrix composites. In recent years he has been
working on processing, characterization and modeling
of polymer/clay and polymer/raphite nanocomposites.
He
serves on the editorial boards of Composites Part
A, Strain and Journal of (SEM), the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the American
Academy of Mechanics. He has received awards from
SEM (two Hetenyi awards, B. J. Lazan award, M.
M> Frocht award, and the W. M. Murray Medal),
and the American Society for Composites (Distinguished
Research award).
He
is a co-inventor of three patents and two pending
ones. He has lectured at home and abroad; is the
author of over 350 publications and nine chapters
of books; co-author of a monograph entitled "Experimental
Mechanics of Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials;"
and a widely used textbook entitled "Engineering
Mechanics of Composite Materials," now in
its second edition. |
