George Stefanou

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

George Stefanou is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, George Stefanou has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 26 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 23 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in George Stefanou's work include Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (23 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (17 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (14 papers). George Stefanou is often cited by papers focused on Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (23 papers), Composite Material Mechanics (17 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (14 papers). George Stefanou collaborates with scholars based in Greece, United Kingdom and United States. George Stefanou's co-authors include Manolis Papadrakakis, Dimitrios Savvas, Vissarion Papadopoulos, John Argyris, George D. Manolis, George Deodatis, Alexandre Clément, Nikos D. Lagaros, Anthony Nouy and Iason Papaioannou and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and Composites Part B Engineering.

In The Last Decade

George Stefanou

55 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The stochastic finite element method: Past, present and future

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Stefanou Greece	19	1.2k	1.1k	721	260	190	59	1.9k
B. N. Rao India	28	774 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.8×	158 0.6×	65 0.3×	152	2.5k
Lucia Faravelli Italy	23	668 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	329 0.5×	85 0.3×	113 0.6×	141	2.2k
F. Tin‐Loi Australia	32	898 0.8×	2.0k 1.8×	2.0k 2.8×	489 1.9×	44 0.2×	138	3.5k
Paul H. Wirsching United States	20	722 0.6×	944 0.9×	884 1.2×	68 0.3×	170 0.9×	66	1.7k
Mazdak Tootkaboni United States	18	331 0.3×	763 0.7×	324 0.4×	345 1.3×	53 0.3×	46	1.2k
Yunlong Li China	21	714 0.6×	634 0.6×	191 0.3×	253 1.0×	47 0.2×	72	1.2k
Sudip Dey India	28	611 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	139 0.5×	33 0.2×	109	2.0k
Hamed Haddad Khodaparast United Kingdom	26	685 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	468 0.6×	118 0.5×	92 0.5×	114	2.0k
Miroslav Vořechovský Czechia	19	348 0.3×	687 0.6×	403 0.6×	120 0.5×	39 0.2×	68	1.2k
N. Impollonia Italy	17	441 0.4×	753 0.7×	194 0.3×	72 0.3×	64 0.3×	36	969

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (2025). The effect of random microstructure morphology on the bending behavior of composite plate structures. Composite Structures. 371. 119432–119432. 1 indexed citations

Stefanou, George, et al.. (2024). CNN-based prediction of microstructure-derived random property fields of composite materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 430. 117207–117207. 12 indexed citations

SAKATA, Sei-ichiro, George Stefanou, Yuki Arai, et al.. (2024). A dual experimental/computational data-driven approach for random field modeling based strength estimation analysis of composite structures. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 433. 117476–117476. 1 indexed citations

SAKATA, Sei-ichiro, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic analysis of homogenized elastic property for resin products fabricated by additive manufacturing based on three-dimensional random field modeling of microstructure. Mechanics of Materials. 196. 105071–105071. 2 indexed citations

Savvas, Dimitrios, Iason Papaioannou, & George Stefanou. (2020). Bayesian identification and model comparison for random property fields derived from material microstructure. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 365. 113026–113026. 27 indexed citations

Stefanou, George, Dimitrios Savvas, & Manolis Papadrakakis. (2017). Stochastic finite element analysis of composite structures based on mesoscale random fields of material properties. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 326. 319–337. 92 indexed citations

Stefanou, George, et al.. (2017). STOCHASTIC RESPONSE OF NONLINEAR BASE ISOLATION SYSTEMS. 4726–4739. 1 indexed citations

Papadrakakis, Manolis, George Stefanou, & Vissarion Papadopoulos. (2014). Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics - Volume 2. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 3 indexed citations

Papadrakakis, Manolis & George Stefanou. (2014). Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at Santorini, Greece, September 9-11, 2013.. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (2014). Stochastic failure analysis of structures with softening materials. Engineering Structures. 61. 13–21. 19 indexed citations

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Xu, Frank F. & George Stefanou. (2012). Explicit bounds on elastic moduli of solids containing isotropic mixture of cracks and voids. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures. 35(8). 708–717. 3 indexed citations

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Papadopoulos, Vissarion, George Stefanou, & Manolis Papadrakakis. (2009). Buckling analysis of imperfect shells with stochastic non-Gaussian material and thickness properties. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 46(14-15). 2800–2808. 57 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, Anthony Nouy, & Alexandre Clément. (2009). Identification of random shapes from images through polynomial chaos expansion of random level set functions. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 79(2). 127–155. 37 indexed citations

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Lagaros, Nikos D., Manolis Papadrakakis, Michalis Fragiadakis, George Stefanou, & Yiannis Tsompanakis. (2007). Neural network aided stochastic computations and earthquake engineering. Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences. 251–275. 2 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (1995). A general method for the analysis of cable assemblies with fixed and flexible elastic boundaries. Computers & Structures. 55(5). 897–905. 5 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (1995). Dynamic response analysis of flexible structural systems with nonlinear characteristics. Nonlinear Analysis. 25(1). 103–107. 1 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (1994). Comparative performance of equivalent linearization techniques for inelastic seismic design. Engineering Structures. 16(1). 5–10. 7 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George. (1982). Use of variational principles for solution of infinitely redundant continuum problem with special reference to containment vessels.. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. 19(5). 359–367.

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Stefanou, George. (1975). A Direct Solution Procedure for Calculating Time-Varying Stresses in Structural Systems by the Principles of Variational Calculus. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 1 indexed citations

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Stefanou, George, et al.. (1971). Two-Dimensional Time-Dependent Analysis of Perforated End Caps for Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vesssels By the Finite Element Method. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 2 indexed citations

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