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Professor Aouni A. Lakis

Mechanical Engineering Department
École Polytechnic of Montréal, Canada

Selected Publications:
Lakis, A. A.; Paidoussis M. P. (1971): Free Vibration of Cylindrical Shells Partially Field with Liquid. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 19, pp. 1-15.

Lakis, A. A.; Paidoussis M. P. (1972a): Dynamic Analysis of axially Non-Uniform Thin Cylindrical Shells. Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 14(??), pp. 49-71.

Lakis, A. A.; Paidoussis M. P. (1972b): Prediction of the Response of a Cylindrical Shell to Arbitrary or Boundary-Layer-Induced Random Pressure Fields. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 25(??), pp. 1-27.

Lakis, A. A.; Bursuc, G.; Toorani, M. H. (2009a): Sloshing Effect on the Dynamics Behaviour of Horizontal Cylindrical Shells. International Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 239, pp. 1193-1206.

Lakis, A. A.; Toorani, M. H (2009b): Non-Linear Axial Flow-Induced Vibrations of Composite Cylindrical Shells. 7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

A. A. Lakis and A. Laveau 1991 International Journal of Solids and Structures 28, 1079-1094. Non-linear dynamic analysis of anisotropic cylindrical shells containing a flowing fluid.

Selmane and A. A. Lakis 1997a International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 40, 1115-1137. Influence of geometric non-linearities on free vibrations of orthotropic open cylindrical shells.

A. Selmane and A. A. Lakis 1997 Journal of Sound and vibration 202, 67-93. Non-linear dynamic analysis of orthotropic open cylindrical shells subjected to a flowing fluid.

Lakis, A. A.; Neagu, S. (1997): Free Surface Effects on the Dynamics of Cylindrical Shells Partially Filled with Liquid. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 207(2), pp. 175-205.

Lakis, A. A.; Selmane, A. (1997): Classical Solution Shape Functions in the Finite Element Analysis of Circular and Annular Plates. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 40, pp. 969-990.

M. H. Toorani and A. A. Lakis, “General Equations of Anisotropic Plates and Shells Including Transverse Shear Deformations, Rotary Inertia and Initial Curvature Effects”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 237, No. 4, November 2000, pp. 561-615

Toorani, M. H.; Lakis A.A. (2001a): Dynamic Analysis of Anisotropic Cylindrical Shells Containing Flowing Fluid. Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, vol. (??), pp.1-7.

Toorani MH, Lakis AA. Shear deformation in dynamic analysis of anisotropic laminated open cylindrical shells filled with or subjected to a flowing fluid. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2001;190:4929–66.

Toorani, M. H.; Lakis, A. A. (2002a): Dynamics Behaviour of Axisymmetric and Beam-Like Anisotropic Cylindrical Shells Conveying Fluid. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 259(2), pp. 265-298.

Toorani, M. H.; Lakis, A. A. (2002b): Geometrically non-linear dynamics of anisotropic open cylindrical shells with a refined shell theory. Technical Report, EPM-RT-01-07, Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada

M.H. Toorani and A.A. Lakis, “Large amplitude vibrations of anisotropic cylindrical shells”, Computers & Structures, Vol. 82, Nos. 23-26, September-October 2004, pp. 2015-2025, Special Issue: Computational Structures Technology

Toorani MH, Lakis AA. Free vibrations of non-uniform composite cylindrical shells. Nucl Eng Des 2006; 236:1748–58.

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