PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
2024
O'Driscoll, C., Kasha, A., Kourousis, K.I., 2023. Plastic Anisotropy of Powder Bed Fusion Maraging Steel: An Experimental Replication Study, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, 238 (5), 985-988.
O'Neill, I., Dayanand, A., Keaveney, S., Kourousis, K.I., 2024. Tensile Anisotropy of Powder Bed Fusion Steel 316L: A Practical Study on the Effect of Build Orientation, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Online First, 1-8.
2023
Kasha, A., Shrinivasan K.V., Obadimu, S.O., Kourousis, K.I., 2023. Immersion Corrosion of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Immersion Time and Surface Roughness, Materials Today Communications, 35, 106394.
Thaker, A.H., Boreham, P., Kourousis, K.I., Ranade, V.V. 2023. Liquid-Liquid Emulsion using 3D-printed Vortex based Hydrodynamic Cavitation Device, Chemical Engineering & Technology, 46 (9), 1970-1976.
Southern, T., Campbell, J., Kourousis, K.I., Mooney, B., Tang, Y., Clyne, T.W., 2023. Indentation Plastometry for Study of Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity in Maraging Steel produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Steel Research International, 2200881.
Obadimu S.O., Kourousis, K.I. 2023 In-plane Compression Performance of Additively Manufactured Honeycomb Structures: A Review of Influencing Factors and Optimisation Techniques. International Journal of Structural Integrity, 14 (3), 337-353.
Obadimu S.O., Kourousis, K.I. 2023 Microscopic and Mesoscopic/Macroscopic Structural Characteristics of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of the Fabrication Process, International Journal of Structural Integrity, 14 (2), 314-321.
Obadimu S.O., McLaughlin J., Kourousis K.I. 2023 Immersion Ultrasonic Testing of Artificially Induced Defects in Fused Filament Fabricated Steel 316L, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 10 (1), 34-39.
2022
Obadimu S.O., Kasha A., Kourousis, K.I., 2022 Tensile Performance and Plastic Anisotropy of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Primary Manufacturing Parameters, Additive Manufacturing, 60 (B), 103297.
Obadimu S.O., Kourousis, K.I. 2022 Shrinkage Behaviour of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Primary 3D Printing Parameters, Rapid Prototyping Journal, 28, 11, 92-101.
Obadimu S.O., Kourousis, K.I. 2022 Load-rate Effects on the In-plane Compressive Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Steel 316L Honeycomb Structures, Engineering Structures, 273, 115063.
Kasha A., Obadimu S.O., Kourousis, K.I. 2022 Flexural Characteristics of Material Extrusion Steel 316L: Influence of Manufacturing Parameters, Additive Manufacturing Letters, 3, 100087.
2021
Obadimu S.O., Kourousis K.I. 2021 Compressive Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures: A Review, Aerospace, 8(8), 207.
Agius D., Wallbrink C., Kourousis K.I. 2021 Efficient Modelling of the Elastoplastic Anisotropy of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V, Additive Manufacturing, 38, 101826.
2020
Mooney B., Kourousis K.I. 2020. A Review of Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties of Maraging Steel 300 Fabricated via Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Metals, 10, 1273.
Mooney B., Agius D., Kourousis K.I. 2020. Cyclic Plasticity of the as Built EOS Maraging Steel: Preliminary Experimental and Computational Results, Applied Sciences, 10(4), 1232.
2019
Mooney B., Kourousis K.I., Raghavendra R. Agius D., 2019. Process Phenomena Influencing the Tensile and Anisotropic Characteristics of Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel, Materials Science and Engineering A, 745, 115.
Mooney B., Kourousis K.I., Raghavendra R. 2019. Plastic Anisotropy of Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel: Influence of the Build Orientation and Heat-treatments, Additive Manufacturing, 25, 19.
2018
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C. 2018. Elastoplastic Response of As-built SLM and Wrought Ti-6Al-4V under Symmetric and Asymmetric Strain-controlled Cyclic Loading, Rapid Prototyping Journal, 24(9), 1409.
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C. 2018. A Modification of the Multicomponent Armstrong-Frederick Model with Multiplier for the Enhanced Simulation of Aerospace Aluminium Elastoplasticity, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 144, 118.
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C., 2018. A Review of the As-Built SLM Ti-6Al-4V Mechanical Properties towards Achieving Fatigue Resistant Designs, Metals, 8(1), 75, 1.
2017
Agius D., Wallbrink C., Hu W., Kajtaz M., Wang C., Kourousis K.I. 2017. On the Utilisation of Nonlinear Plasticity Models in Military Aircraft Fatigue Estimation: A Preliminary Comparison, Aerospace Science and Technology, 71, 25.
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C., Song T. 2017. Cyclic Plasticity and Microstructure of As-built SLM Ti-6Al-4V: The Effect of Build Orientation, Materials Science and Engineering A, 701, 85.
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C., Hu W., Wang C., Dafalias Y.F. 2017. Aluminum Alloy 7075 Ratcheting Response and Plastic Shakedown Evaluation with the Multiplicative Armstrong-Frederick Model, AIAA Journal, 55(7), 2461-2470.
Agius D., Kajtaz M., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C., Wang C., Hu W., Silva J. 2017. Sensitivity and Optimisation of the Chaboche Plasticity Model Parameters in Strain-life Fatigue Predictions, Materials & Design, 118, 107.
2016
Kourousis K.I., Agius D., Wang C., Subic A. 2016. Constitutive Modeling of Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Cyclic Elastoplastic Behaviour, Technische Mechanik 36(1-2), 47.
Book Chapters
2022
Halama, R., Kourousis, K.I., Pagac, M., Pask, Z., 2021 Cyclic Plasticity of Additively Manufactured Metals, Cyclic Plasticity of Metals, 1st Edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 978-0-12-819293-1 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819293-1.00022-X
Conference Papers and Presentations
2023
Hizli, B., Dogan, S., Toparli, B.M., Ince, U., Boreham, P., Kourousis, K., 2023. The Investigation of Mechanical Properties and Performance of Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel Bolts, International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing (ICMSM) 2023, 17-18 November 2023, Online.
2022
Obadimu S.O., Kasha A., Kourousis, K.I., 2022. Plastic Anisotropy of Steel 316L Parts Produced via the Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing Process, 12th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation and Space for opening New Horizons, 20 October 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
Obadimu, S., Kourousis, K.I., 2022. In Plane Compression of Material Extrusion & Laser Powder Bed Fusion Steel 316L Honeycomb: An Evaluation of the Load rate Effect, 12th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation and Space for opening New Horizons, 20 October 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
2021
Obadimu, S., Kourousis, K.I., 2021. Load-rate effects of Additively Manufactured Metallic Honeycomb Structures under Compression, East Europe Conference on AM materials, 02 September 2021, Online.
Kourousis, K.I. 2021. Exploring the Low Cycle Fatigue Performance of FFF Steel 316L, ASME AM Industry Summit, 04 August 2021, Online.
Obadimu, S. 2021. Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing of Additively Manufactured Ultrafuse 316L Samples, Presentation, Winter Workshop on Manufacturing, Mechanics & Characterisation of Advanced Engineering Materials, University of Luxembourg & University of Limerick, 28 January 2021, Online.
2020
Kourousis K.I., 2020. On the Elastoplastic Characteristics of the Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel, Invited Talk, Conference: Experimental Stress Analysis 2020, 20 October 2020, Online, Czech Republic.
2019
Kourousis K.I., 2019. Anisotropy of Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel 300: Characterisation and Control towards Certification, Aircraft Airworthiness and Sustainment Conference 2019, Washington DC, USA.
Kourousis K.I., 2019. Identifying the Anisotropic and Cyclic Inelastic Characteristics of the Ti-6Al-4V and Maraging Steel 300 fabricated via Additive Manufacturing, International Symposium on Metallic 3/4D Printing, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
2017
Kourousis K.I., Agius D., 2017. Insights on the Cyclic Inelastic Response of SLM Ti-6Al-4V, Irish Polymers and Materials Conference 2017: New Materials for 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing, Dublin, Ireland.
Agius D., Kourousis K.I., Wallbrink C., Song T., 2017. The Influence of Build Direction on the Plastic Anisotropy of SLM Ti-6Al-4V subjected to Strain-controlled Cyclic Loading, Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting 2017 & ASME-AMD Joint Conference, Boston, MA, USA.
Kourousis K.I., Agius D., Wallbrink C., Brandt M., Wang C.H., 2017. Uniaxial Cyclic Stress-Strain Behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V Additively Manufactured by Selective Laser Melting, 20th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, Dublin, Ireland.
2016
Agius D., Wallbrink C., Hu W., Kourousis K.I., Wang C.H., Kajtaz M., 2016. Fatigue Analysis of Transport Aircraft Structures using Advanced Cyclic Plasticity Models – an Assessment, 10th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure (SIF-2016), Adelaide, SA, Australia.
2015
Kourousis, K.I., Agius D., Wang C., Subic, A. 2015. Constitutive Modeling of Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Cyclic Elastoplastic Behaviour, 4th International Conference on Material Modeling, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Agius D., Mladenko K., Kourousis K.I., 2015. An Optimisation Methodology for the Determination of Cyclic Plasticity Models’ Parameters, 2nd Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming 2017
PhD / Master's by Research Theses
2023
Boreham, P., 2023. Design and Optimisation of Additively Manufactured Steel Bolts for Strength Enhancement of Aluminium Lap Joints, Master of Engineering by Research Thesis, University of Limerick.
2022
Obadimu, S.O., 2022. Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing of Steel 316L: Mechanical Properties’ Optimisation and the Effect of Load Rate on In-Plane Compressive Performance of Honeycomb Structures, PhD Thesis, University of Limerick.
2018
Mooney, B. 2018. Plastic anisotropy of additively manufactured maraging steel: influence of the build orientation and heat treatment, Master of Engineering by Research Thesis, University of Limerick.
2017