Prof. Dr. Halit S. TürkmenHome Courses Research Publications Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics 34469 Maslak İSTANBUL, TURKEY Tel : (0212) 285 31 96 , E-mail : halit@itu.edu.tr Education : Ph.D., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, 1998. M.Sc., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, 1993. B.Sc., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, 1989. Experience : Prof. Dr., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İ.T.Ü., 2012-Present. Assoc. Prof., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İ.T.Ü., 2005-2012. Assist. Prof., Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İ.T.Ü., 2002-2005. Research Assistant, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İ.T.Ü., 2001-2002. Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA, 1998-2001. Research Assistant, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, İ.T.Ü., June 1992-November 1998. Aeronautical Engineer, The First Air Supply and Maintenance Center, Eskişehir, Turkey, August 1991-June 1992. Mechanical Engineer, Güralmakina, Kütahya, Turkey, April 1990-January 1991. Research Interests : Finite Element Method in Structural Mechanics; The Shell Theory and its Applications; Structural Design; Composite Materials; Aeroelasticity; Design of Machine Elements; Mechanical Vibrations and Structural Dynamics; Computer Aided Measurement and Data Acquisition; Structural Impact; Polycrystal Elastoplasticity. Institutional and Professional Service in the Last 5 Years : Working in several projects as Principal Investigator and Researcher on the numerical analysis and experimental investigation of aerospace structures and structural components supported by TÜBİTAK, SANTEZ, Endustry, etc. Teaching assignments at İstanbul Technical University. Supervising several M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. Membership in Scientific and Professional Societies : The Combustion Institute The Chamber of Mechanical Engineers of Turkey Projects : Milli Rüzgâr Enerji Sistemleri Geliştirilmesi ve Prototip Türbin Üretimi (MİLRES), KOBRA Bomba Adaptörünün Modifikasyonu ve Geliştirilmesi, Birinci Hava İkmal Bakım Merkezi,İç Şoka Maruz Tüplerdeki Olayların İncelenmesi, İ.T.Ü. Araştırma Fonu Projesı Bilgisayar Kontrollu Tahrik Sistemi Geliştirilmesi, Devlet Planlama Teşkılatı Projesı Patlamanın İnce Cidarlı Kompozit Yapılar Üzerindeki Etkilerinin İncelenmesi, İ.T.Ü. Araştırma Fonu Projesı Probabilistic Fatigue Crack Initiation of Aircraft Structures, U.S. Aır Force Project. Tekrarlı Yükler Etkisi Altında Kalan Kompozit Malzemelerde Yorulma Davranışı İçin Mikro-makro Model Geliştirilmesi, Viskoelastik Çekirdeğe Sahip Sandviç Kompozit Plakların Anlık Basınç Yükü Altındaki Davranışının Teorik ve Deneysel İncelemesi, TÜBİTAK 1001 Projesi, Principal Publications of the Last Five Years:
1) Sedat Susler, Halit S. Turkmen and Zafer Kazancı, The nonlinear dynamic behaviour of tapered laminated plates subjected to blast loading, Shock and Vibration, Vol. 19, pp. 1235-1255, (2012). 2) Z. Kazancı and H.S. Turkmen,The effect of in-plane deformations on the nonlinear dynamic response of laminated plates, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 42, pp. 589-608, (2012). 3) C. J. Keulen, E. Akay, F. F. Melemez, E. S. Kocaman, A. Deniz, C. Yılmaz, T. Boz, M. Yıldız, H. S. Turkmen, A. Suleman, Prediction of fatigue response of composite structures by monitoring the strain energy release rate with embedded fiber Bragg gatings, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, DOI: 10.1177, (2014). 4) E. S. Kocaman, C. J. Keulen, E. Akay, M. Yıldız, H. S. Turkmen, A. Suleman, An experimental study on the effect of length and orientation of embedded FBG sensors on the signal properties under fatigue loading, Science and Engineering of Composite Materials, DOI: 10.1515/secm-2014-0029, (2015). 5) A. Kadir Yavuz, A. Deniz Senalp, Halit S. Turkmen and S. Leigh Phoenix, Interacting Fatigue Crack Growth Analysis with Boundary Cracklet Method, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 445, pp. 1017-1022 (2012). 6) D. Kavrar, M.L. Ovecoglu, and H.S. Turkmen, Production of a Helicopter Tail Boom and Associated Mechanical Tests, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 445, pp. 566-570 (2012). 7) O. Coskun and Halit S. Turkmen, Bending Fatigue Behaviour of Laminated Sandwich Beams, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 445, pp. 548-553 (2012). 8) F. Usta, Z. Eren, H. S. Türkmen, Z. Kazancı, Z. Mecitoğlu, Numerical investigation of stepped concentric crash tubes subjected to axial impact: The effects of number of tubes, Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 7th International Conference, İstabul, 16-19 June, 2015, pp. 39-43. 9) E. Ok and H. S. Turkmen, Multi Objective Optimization of a Composite Drive Shaft Using Particle Swarm Algorithm, The Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, 1-4 September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. 10) Z. Eren, F. Usta, Z. Kazancı, H. S. Türkmen, Z. Mecitoğlu, Axial Crash and Crush Response of Novel Nested Tube Designs, 12th International Conference on the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM12), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015. 11) Erdem Akay, Halit S. Türkmen, Mehmet Yıldız, Multiaxial Strain Measurement Using Embedded FBG Sensors During the Fatigue Testing of FRP Composites, 31th Danubia-Adria Symposium, Kempten University, Germany, 2014, Keynote Speaker & Selected for publication in journal "Strain". 12) Erdem Akay, Halit S. Türkmen, Mehmet Yıldız, Structural Performance of Laminated Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Manufactured by Resin Transfer Molding and Vacuum Curing & Debulking Table, Advanced Materials World Congress (AMWC) 2013, Çeşme, İzmir, Turkey. 13) Hulya Cebeci, Roberto Guzman de Villoria, Robert Jones, Karl Schulte, Halit S. Turkmen, and Brian Wardle, Effective Stiffness of Wavy Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Modeling of Controlled-Morphology Polymer Nanocomposites, 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference<BR>20th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, 2012. 14) M. Tuna and H.S. Turkmen, Transient analysis of tapered plates using differential quadrature method, The 4th International Conference on Computational Methods, Gold Coast, Austuralia, November 25-27, 2012. 15) S. Süsler, Z. Kazancı, H.S.Türkmen, Nonlinear Dynamic Behaviour of Tapered Sandwich Plates Subjected to Blast Loading, The Fifteenth European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM15), Venice, 24-28 Haziran, 2012. |