Department of 

   Mechanical  Engineering

  

1.	RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 

	Post doctoral Research Associate at Frederick Research Center, in the project entitled:
	"Metal bonded magnets for high temperature applications", Founded by Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus.  

	Research associate at the  Manufacturing Technology Division of the  Mechanical Engineering Department 
	of  Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki (A.U.T.H.)

	Participation in research project:
	"Determination of mechanical properties of cutting tools coated with thin PVD films", 
	Founded by the Research Committee of (A.U.T.H.)

 
 
2.	LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

	Publications in International Scientific Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences 
	Over than 35 scientific publications in refereed Journals and International Conferences. 

Selection of recent publications

1.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, J. Anastopoulos, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, K. Efstathiou, O. Knotek, G. Erkens, R. Cremer, S. Rambadt, I. Wirth, The influence of the coating thickness on its strength properties and on the milling performance of PVD coated inserts. Surface and Coatings Technology, 174-175, 2003, pp. 393-401.

2.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, K. Efstathiou, E. Pavlidou, G. Erkens, R. Cremer, S. Rambadt, I. Wirth, The effect of coating thickness, mechanical strength and hardness properties on the milling performance of PVD coated cemented carbides inserts, Surface and Coatings Technology, 177-178 (2004) 657-664.

3.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, K. Efstathiou, G. Erkens, I. Wirth, Milling performance of coated inserts with variable coating thickness on their rake and flank, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 53/1, 2004 pp. 81-84.

4.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis G. Erkens, Wear development on cemented carbides inserts, coated with variable film thickness in the cutting wedge region, Surface and Coatings Technology, 188-189 (2004) 636-643.

5.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, N. Michailidis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, G. Erkens, A continuous FEM simulation of the nanoindentation to determine actual indenter tip geometries, elastic-plastic material deformation laws and universal hardness, Zeitschrift für Metallkunde, Vol. 93 (2002) 9, 2002, pp. 862-869.

6.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, N. Michailidis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, G. Erkens, The effect of the specimen roughness and the indenter tip geometry on the determination accuracy of thin hard coatings stress-strain laws by nanoindentations, Materials Characterisation, Vol. 4, 2003, pp. 149-156.

7.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, J. Anastopoulos I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, K. Efstathiou, O. Knotek, G. Erkens, R. Cremer, S. Rambadt, I. Wirth, Strength properties and milling performance of PVD coated inserts with various coating thickness. 3rd International Conference “THE” Coatings, November 28-29, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002, pp. 27-38.

8.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, S. Hadjiyiannis, G. Skordaris, K. Efstathiou, J. Anastopoulos. I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, G. Erkens, R. Cremer, S. Rambadt, I. Wirth, The effect of coating thickness, mechanical strength and hardness properties on the milling performance of PVD coated cemented carbides inserts. International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, April 28-May 2, S. Diego, USA, 2003, pp. 69.

9.     

K.-D. Bouzakis, G. Skordaris, S. Hadjiyiannis, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, The effect of annealing duration on PVD film mechanical strength properties and the wear behaviour of coated cemented carbide inserts, 4th International Conference “THE” Coatings, Erlangen, April 5-7, 2004, pp. 179-189.

10.  

K.-D. Bouzakis, G. Skordaris, S. Hadjiyiannis, I. Mirisidis, N. Michailidis, PVD film mechanical strength properties and wear behaviour of coated tools after isothermal annealings, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference for Mesomechanics, Patras-Greece, ISBN 960-88104-0-X, 2004, pp 62-68.