Personal Profile

Nationality

Greek

Contact details

Nottingham Center for Geomechanics

Faculty of Engineering

University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Tel:

Mail: vasileios.matziaris@nottingham.ac.uk

Position

ESR13

Host Organisation

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.

Supervisor

Prof. Hai-Sui Yu

Title

Model tests on rainfall induced slope failure in geotechnical centrifuge

Objective

To perform centrifuge model tests on rainfall induced slope failures with fully characterized soils and well defined initial and boundary conditions. Tests will be carried out for different slope inclinations, intensity and duration of rainfall.

Education

Master

Engineering Geology

Major

Geotechnics

Thesis Topic

Slope stability and earthquake-induced displacement analysis in GIS environment

University

University of Durham, School of Engineering, Durham, U.K.

Languages

Greek, English

Hobbies

Travelling, Football, Music

Selected publications

• · Matziaris V., Sakellariou M. (2005). Modeling the effect of rainfall in unsaturated slopes. IASME transactions, Issue 3, Vol. 2, pp. 442-447.
• · Matziaris V., Ferentinou M., Sakellariou M. (2005). Slope Stability Assessment in Unsaturated Soils under Rainfall Conditions. Int. Workshop in Geoenvironment and Geotechnics (GEOENV2005), Agioutantis & Komnitsas (eds.), Milos 2005, pp. 91-97.
• · Ferentinou M., Sakellariou M., Matziaris V.,Charalambous S. (2006). An Introduced methodology for estimating landslide hazard for seismic and rainfall induced landslides in a Geographical Information System. Int. Conference in Geohazards – Technical, Economical and Social Risk Evaluation, Volume P7, Norway, June 18-21.
• · Matziaris V., Ferentinou M., Agelopoulou O., Karanassiou S., and Sakellariou M. (2007). Landslide Hazard Analysis – A Case Study in Kerasia Village (Prefecture of Karditsa). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece vol. XXXVII, 1710-1721.
• · Matziaris V., Ferentinou M., Sakellariou M. (2012). Elaboration of a High-Dimensional Database of Unsaturated Soils Using Artificial Neural Networks. Proc. of the 2^nd European Conference in Unsaturated Soils, 20-22 June, Naples.