FIELD OF STUDY

Geotechnical engineering with emphasis on seismic behaviour of retaining walls and buried structures, vibration propagation in soil media, 1-g shake table modeling, stress-strain-strength behavior of geo-materials

 

BACKGROUND

• Research Scholar, 2009-2010, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Geotechnical Engineering Division, University of Utah
• Ph.D., expected date: 2011, Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Geotechnics Division, Ankara, Turkey
• M.Sc., 2006, Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Geotechnics Division, Ankara, Turkey
• B.Sc., 2003, Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey

RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS

• Finite Element Modeling on Seismic Response Of Cantilever Retaining Walls
• Reduction of Lateral Earth Pressures by Compressible Inclusions
• Seismic behavior of earth retaining structures (e.g., gravity retaining walls, anchors)
• Influence of traffic and train induced vibrations on civil engineering structures
• Retaining wall design based on AASTHO Standards

NUMERICAL MODELING INVENTORY

• FLAC, Fast Lagrarian Analysis of Continua,ITASCA
• PLAXIS
• Geostudio 2007
• UWLC, Forum 8
• SAP2000