Dr. Kyriakos Kourousis

Faculty Of Science & Engineering

Mechanical Aeronautical & Biomedical Eng

School Of Engineering

Position: Senior Lecturer | Programme Director Airworthiness

Email: kyriakos.kourousis@ul.ie

Tel: +353 (0) 61202217

Address(es)

School of Engineering, Room AM042

University of Limerick

Limerick, V94 T9PX

Ireland

URL(s)

https://bernalinstitute.com/our_people/kyriakos-kourousis/

Biography

Dr Kyriakos I. Kourousis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. He also serves as the Programme Director for the Professional Diploma in Airworthiness.

His research expertise is in the areas of airworthiness management & engineering and of metal plasticity of conventional and additively manufactured (3D printed) metals, working on modelling and characterisation of their mechanical behaviour under complex loading. He is leading the following research groups in the School of Engineering:

Metal Plasticity and Additive Manufacturing Grou p
Airworthiness Group

He has a broad educational experience in teaching and supervising students in the University of Limerick, RMIT University and other tertiary education aviation/engineering schools in Europe. Dr Kourousis holds the honorary position of the Associate of RMIT University, in the School of Engineering.

Dr Kourousis has 22 years of experience in the fields of aircraft maintenance, airworthiness, quality control and assurance, engineering and technical/logistics support of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, as an Aeronautical Engineer Officer (Major res.) of the Hellenic Air Force. He was formerly the manager of the Mirage 2000 and Mirage 2000-5 airframe/systems airworthiness, quality control and assurance program, as well as the fleet fatigue monitoring/structural integrity program. He has also served as aircraft maintenance officer and quality control and assurance officer of Mirage 2000 in 114 Fighter Wing at Tanagra, Greece.

He is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). Dr Kourousis is a member of the RAeS Airworthiness & Maintenance Specialist Group, where has also served as Chair.

Research Interests

Aeronautical and Defence Engineering:

Continuing airworthiness management;
Aircraft engineering, maintenance and technical support;
Aviation safety;
Defence engineering and support;
Engineering Education and Training.

Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering:

Material mechanical behaviour modeling;
Cyclic plasticity constitutive modeling;
Light metal plasticity;
Metal Additive Manufacturing.

Professional Activities

Award

2017 - Adjunct Associate Professor
2014 - Associate of RMIT University
2014 - NATO Scientific Achievement Award, Team Member of AVT-174 Research Task Group on 'Qualification and Structural Design Guidelines for Military UAVs'

Employment

2014 University of Limerick, Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering, Ireland - Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Aircraft Maintenance and Operations
2012 RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Australia - Lecturer and Programme Director, Postgraduate Aerospace and Aviation Programs
2012 Hellenic Air Force, Greece - Sabbatical Leave, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
2005 Hellenic Air Force Support Command, Elefsina Air Force Base, Greece - Airworthiness & QA/QC Manager of HAF Mirage 2000/-5 & Structural Integrity Manager for HAF Mirage 2000/-5 fleet
2004 Hellenic Air Force, 114 Combat Wing, Tanagra Air Force Base, Greece - Continuing Airworthiness & QA/QC Manager of HAF Mirage 2000 fleet (O and I Level Maintenance)
2002 Hellenic Air Force, Base Maintenance Squadron, 114 Fighter Wing, Greece - Head of the 332 Squadron QA/QC Office (Airworthiness Compliance Assurance) & QC Officer
2000 Hellenic Air Force (various sites), Greece - Specialisation Training (Engineering Regulations, Applied Aeronautical Engineering, Logistics Support)
2000 Hellenic Air Force, Base Maintenance Squadron, 114 Fighter Wing, Greece - Assistant Head - Maintenance Officer, Intermediate Level Maintenance Shops (Mirage 2000, Mirage F.1),

Education

2013 RMIT University - Graduate Certificate
2011 National Technical University of Athens - PhD
2003 National Techical University of Athens - MSc
2000 Hellenic Air Force Academy - BSc

Association

Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
Chartered Engineer, UK Engineering Council

Language

English
Greek

Consultancy

Non-disclosable client - Research on Military Airworthiness
Etihad Advanced Integrated Solutions LLC (UAE) - Educational Assessment of Aircraft Maintenance Training Material
Indecon International Economic Consultants (Ireland) - Research on Skills-related Aspects of Aircraft MRO Sector in Ireland
Air Learning Ltd (Ireland) - Research on eLearning Training in Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance
Aircraft Technical Books Co. (USA) - Development of EASA Part 66 Training Material
Australian Tertiary Education Quality Standard Agency (Australia) - Registered Expert and Assessor of aerospace and aviation engineering undergraduate (University/TAFE) and postgraduate programs

Research Collaborators

Chris Wallbrink - Joint Publication - Defence Science & Technology Group, Department of Defence -Australia
Ioannis Giannopoulos - Visiting Professor/Lecturer - Cranfield University -England
Spyros Karamanos - Co-supervision of PhD - University of Thessaly -Greece

Peer Reviewed Journals

2022

Shrinkage behaviour of material extrusion steel 316L: influence of primary 3D printing parameters

Obadimu, Solomon O.,Kourousis, Kyriakos I. (2022) Shrinkage behaviour of material extrusion steel 316L: influence of primary 3D printing parameters. : Emerald Publishing Limited Rapid Prototyping Journal :92-101

2022

Tensile Performance and Plastic Anisotropy of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Primary Manufacturing Parameters

Obadimu, Solomon O.,Kasha, Anirudh,Kourousis, Kyriakos I. (2022) Tensile Performance and Plastic Anisotropy of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Primary Manufacturing Parameters. Additive Manufacturing :103297-

2022

Flexural characteristics of material extrusion steel 316L: Influence of manufacturing parameters

Kasha, Anirudh,Obadimu, Solomon O.,Kourousis, Kyriakos I. (2022) Flexural characteristics of material extrusion steel 316L: Influence of manufacturing parameters. Additive Manufacturing Letters :100087-

2022

Load-rate effects on the in-plane compressive behaviour of additively manufactured steel 316L honeycomb structures

Obadimu S.O.;Kourousis K.I. (2022) Load-rate effects on the in-plane compressive behaviour of additively manufactured steel 316L honeycomb structures. Engineering Structures

Biography

Research Interests

Professional Activities

Award

Employment

Education

Association

Language

Consultancy

Research Collaborators

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Shrinkage behaviour of material extrusion steel 316L: influence of primary 3D printing parameters

Tensile Performance and Plastic Anisotropy of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Primary Manufacturing Parameters

Flexural characteristics of material extrusion steel 316L: Influence of manufacturing parameters

Load-rate effects on the in-plane compressive behaviour of additively manufactured steel 316L honeycomb structures

Microscopic and mesoscopic/macroscopic structural characteristics of material extrusion Steel 316L: influence of the fabrication process

Immersion Ultrasonic Testing of Artificially Induced Defects in Fused Filament Fabricated Steel 316L

Learning from incidents in aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness: regulation, practice and gaps

Efficient modelling of the elastoplastic anisotropy of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

Learning from incidents in aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness: regulation, practice and gaps

Compressive Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures: A Review

Analysis of continuing airworthiness occurrences under the prism of a learning framework

Learning from Incidents in Aircraft Maintenance and Continuing Airworthiness Management: A Systematic Review

Learning from incidents: A qualitative study in the continuing airworthiness sector

Cyclic plasticity of additively manufactured metals

Winging it: Key issues and perceptions around regulation and practice of aircraft maintenance in Australian general aviation

Development of the minimum equipment list: Current practice and the need for standardisation

Cyclic plasticity of the as-built EOS maraging steel: Preliminary experimental and computational results

A review of factors affecting the mechanical properties of maraging steel 300 fabricated via laser powder bed fusion

Process phenomena influencing the tensile and anisotropic characteristics of additively manufactured maraging steel

Plastic anisotropy of additively manufactured maraging steel: Influence of the build orientation and heat treatments

A review of the as-built SLM Ti-6Al-4V mechanical properties towards achieving fatigue resistant designs

A Review of the As-Built SLM Ti-6Al-4V Mechanical Properties towards Achieving Fatigue Resistant Designs

The Balance Between Safety and Productivity and its Relationship with Human Factors and Safety Awareness and Communication in Aircraft Manufacturing

Elastoplastic response of as-built SLM and wrought Ti-6Al-4V under symmetric and asymmetric strain-controlled cyclic loading

An Innovative Structural Fatigue Monitoring Solution for General Aviation Aircraft

The airbus A320 family fan cowl door safety modification: a human factors scenario analysis

A simple model to estimate yield stress and variation of hardness in railheads

Indian and Chinese aviation industry: the EASA framework option

Optimising the multiplicative AF model parameters for AA7075 cyclic plasticity and fatigue simulation

A modification of the multicomponent Armstrong-Frederick model with multiplier for the enhanced simulation of aerospace aluminium elastoplasticity

Sensitivity and optimisation of the Chaboche plasticity model parameters in strain-life fatigue predictions

Letter to the Editor: S. Sreenivasan, S.K. Mishra, K. Dutta. Ratcheting strain and its effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of Al 7075-T6 alloy [Mater. Sci. Eng. A 698 (2017) 46–53]

Effects of bolt torque tightening on the strength and fatigue life of airframe FRP laminate bolted joints

Cyclic plasticity and microstructure of as-built SLM Ti-6Al-4V: The effect of build orientation

On the utilisation of nonlinear plasticity models in military aircraft fatigue estimation: A preliminary comparison

Aluminum Alloy 7075 Ratcheting and Plastic Shakedown Evaluation with the Multiplicative Armstrong-Frederick Model

Cyclic Elastoplastic Performance of Aluminum 7075-T6 Under Strain- and Stress-Controlled Loading

Higher Education Aviation Programs in Greece: A Missed Opportunity or a Challenge to Meet?

A unified material model to predict ratcheting response in head-hardened rail steel due to non-uniform hardness distributions

Characterisation of head-hardened rail steel in terms of cyclic plasticity response and microstructure for improved material modelling

Cyclic elastoplastic behaviour, hardness and microstructural properties of Ti-6Al-4V manufactured through selective laser melting

Constitutive modeling of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V cyclic elastoplastic behaviour

Enhanced non-linear material modelling for analysis and qualification of rollover protective structures

Anticipating the Need for New Skills for the Future Aerospace and Aviation Professionals

Picosatellites for Maritime Security Applications - the Lambdasat Case

Examination of Military Airworthiness Authorities; a Need for a Mutual Recognition

Temperature Controlled Aircraft Unit Load Devices: The Technological Response to Growing Global Air Cargo Cool Chain Requirements

Mutual Recognition of National Military Airworthiness Authorities: A Streamlined Assessment Process

Assessment of Technical Airworthiness in Military Aviation: Implementation and Further advancement of the Bow-Tie Model

Military Airworthiness Management Frameworks: A Critical Review

Fire Resistant Aircraft Unit Load Devices and Fire Containment Covers: A New Development in the Global Airline Industry

A Phenomenological Approach for Fatigue Damage Accumulation of CF/PEEK Laminates under Two-stage Loading

Supervision of Engineering Doctorates in Australian Universities: A Review on Key Issues

The Introduction of Innovative Services in a State Owned Airline: A Case Study of a IT Migration Project

Constitutive Modeling of Aluminum Alloy 7050 Cyclic Mean Stress Relaxation and Ratcheting

The Introduction of Innovative Services in a State Owned Airline: A Case Study of a IT Migration Project

A Cyclic Plasticity Model for Advanced Light Metal Alloys

A Holistic Approach to General Aviation Aircraft Structural Failure Prevention in Australia

Multiaxial ratcheting with advanced kinematic and directional distortional hardening rules

Multiplicative AF kinematic hardening in plasticity

Books

Book Chapters

Cyclic plasticity of additively manufactured metals

Cyclic plasticity model with multiplicative backstress decomposition

Edited Books

Civil and Military Airworthiness Recent Developments and Challenges (Volume II)

Civil and Military Airworthiness Recent Developments and Challenges

Other Journals