Chara Ch Mitropoulou

Dr. Chara Ch. Mitropoulou is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research of the School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. She holds BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She has participated in a number of research projects and consultancies in the areas of structural analysis and structural dynamics, shape, sizing and topology optimum design of structures, mathematical programming, performance based design of RC and steel structures as well as life cycle cost and fragility assessment of structures. Her publications include 4 book chapters, 2 papers in non-referred international scientific journals, 7 publications in referred international scientific journals and 13 papers in conference proceedings.

Publications

Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems
Nikos D. Lagaros, Vagelis Plevris, Chara Ch Mitropoulou. © 2013. 414 pages.
A typical engineering task during the development of any system is, among others, to improve its performance in terms of cost and response. Improvements can be achieved either by...
Metaheuristic Optimization in Seismic Structural Design and Inspection Scheduling of Buildings
Chara Ch. Mitropoulou, Vagelis Plevris, Nikos D. Lagaros. © 2013. 21 pages.
Optimization is a field where extensive research has been conducted over the last decades. Many types of problems have been addressed, and many types of algorithms have been...
Structural Seismic Design Optimization and Earthquake Engineering: Formulations and Applications
Vagelis Plevris, Chara Ch Mitropoulou, Nikos D. Lagaros. © 2012. 456 pages.
Throughout the past few years, there has been extensive research done on structural design in terms of optimization methods or problem formulation. But, much of this attention...
Metaheuristic Optimization in Seismic Structural Design and Inspection Scheduling of Buildings
Chara Ch. Mitropoulou, Vagelis Plevris, Nikos D. Lagaros. © 2012. 22 pages.
Optimization is a field where extensive research has been conducted over the last decades. Many types of problems have been addressed, and many types of algorithms have been...