Newcastle University

Honours and Awards

2009 Awarded the IMechE Alfred Rosling Bennett Premium/Charles S Lake Award for a paper entitled “Investigation of the Weld Unzipping Failure Mode during Collisions of Welded Aluminium Rail Vehicles”.

2008 IMechE Safety Award in Mechanical Engineering for “Investigation of the Weld Unzipping Failure Mode during Collisions of Welded Aluminium Rail Vehicles”.

Projects

• IMAJINE: Innovative Multimaterials Jointly Integrity Engineering
  Project Leader(s): Prof Mark Robinson
• RAILECT
  Project Leader(s): Dr George Kotsikos
  Alumino-thermic welding of rails has replaced the traditional ‘fishplate’ rail jointing method in the railway industry vastly improving the quality of ride for passenger trains...

• Kotsikos G, Hale J, Jack A, Gibson AG. Mechanical and electrical engineering aspects of long-distance underground power transmission. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 2008, 222(4), 339-346.
• Kotsikos G, Gibson AG, Mawella J. Assessment of moisture absorption in marine GRP laminates with aid of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. Plastics, Rubber and Composites 2007, 36(9), 413-418.
• Kotsikos G, Robinson AM, Gibson AG. Prediction of elevated temperature, creep and damping behaviour of composite laminates from quantitative DMTA. Plastics, Rubber and Composites 2007, 36(9), 396-402.
• Kotsikos G, Robinson M, Zangani D, Roberts J. Investigation of the weld unzipping failure mode during collisions of welded aluminium rail vehicles. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 2008, 222(1), 59-68.
• Kotsikos G, Evans JT, Gibson AG, Hale JM. Environmentally enhanced fatigue damage in glass fibre reinforced composites characterized by acoustic emission. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2000, 31(9), 969-977.
• Kotsikos G, Evans JT, Hale JM, Gibson AG. Evaluation of the Effects of Preexposure in Marine Environments of Structural Glass Reinforced Composites by Acoustic Emission Testing. Materials Evaluation 2000, 58(11), 1320-1325.
• Gibson AG, Evans JT, Kotsikos G, Speake SD, Hale JM. Fatigue of marine laminates in aqueous environments. Plastics, Rubber and Composites 2000, 29(10), 533-538.
• Kotsikos G, Sutcliffe JM, Holroyd NJH. Hydrogen effects in the corrosion fatigue behaviour of the white zone of 7xxx series aluminium alloy welds. Corrosion Science 2000, 42(1), 17-33.
• Kotsikos G, Evans JT, Gibson AG, Hale J. Use of Acoustic Emission to Characterize Corrosion Fatigue Damage Accumulation in Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyester Laminates. Polymer Composites 1999, 20(5), 689-696.