Semih Küçükarslan

Istanbul Technical University,

Department of Civil Engineering,

Maslak 34469, İstanbul, Turkey

Phone # + 90 (212) 285 6824

E-mail : kucukarslan@itu.edu.tr

 

                                                                                                                                  

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, structural dynamics, fluid-structure and soil-structure interaction problems.

 

Education

Degree

Department

University

Year

B.Sc.

Civil Engineering

Middle East Technical University

1994

M.Sc.

Civil Engineering

Middle East Technical University

1995

Ph.D.

Civil Engineering

State University of New York at Buffalo

1999

 

 Work Experience

Title

 

Year

Civil Engineer

State Hydraulic Works / Ankara-Turkey

1994-1995

Research Asst.

Celal Bayar University / Manisa-Turkey

1995-1999

Research Asst. and Associate

State University of New York / NY-USA

1997-1999

Asst. Prof. Dr.

Celal Bayar University / Manisa-Turkey

2000-2004

Assoc. Prof.

Assoc. Prof.

Celal Bayar University / Manisa-Turkey

Istanbul Technical University / Istanbul-Turkey

2004- 2005

2005-present

  

 

Taught Courses

 

·        Celal Bayar University (2000-2005)

Undergraduate: Mechanics I-II, Strength of Materials I-II, Numerical Methods, Reinforced Concrete Prj., Steel Structures Prj., Structural Analysis Prj., Soil Mechanics I-II, Foundation Engineering

Graduate: Theory of Shells, Finite Element Method, Introduction to Elasticity Theory

 

·        İstanbul Technical University (2005-2009)

Undergraduate: Elastic Stability, Theory of Elasticity, Strength of Materials, Dynamics, Advanced Numerical Methods, Numerical Methods

 

·        Boğaziçi University (2006-2009)

Undergraduate: Mechanics of Materials, Fundamentals of Finite Element Method

Graduate: Theory of Plates and Shells

 

·        European Lefke University (2008-2009)

Undergraduate: Structural Analysis, Reinforced Concrete Fundamentals, Fundamentals of Steel Design

 

 

 Awards

Honors student (METU), Graduate Scholarship of Turkish National Education Ministry  (1994),  Graduate Scholarship of Turkish Higher Education Council (1995) , Graduate Scholarship of State University of New York (1997-1999), Biography in Who is who in Computational Science Saxe (2004), DAAD Scholarship (2008), IFNA (2008).

 

Publications

A.     International Journal Papers

A1. Küçükarslan S., ‘Time domain dynamic analysis of piles under impact loading’, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2002, 22: 97-104.

A2. Küçükarslan S.,  Banerjee P.K., ‘Behavior of axially loaded pile groups under lateral cyclic loading’, Engineering Structures, 2003, 25: 303-311.

A3. Küçükarslan S.,  Banerjee P.K., Bildik N.  ‘Inelastic Analysis of Pile Soil Structure Interaction ’, Engineering Structures, 2003, 25: 1231-1239.

A4. Küçükarslan S.,  Coşkun, SB.  ‘Transient Dynamic Analysis of Dam-Reservoir Interaction by Coupling DRBEM and FEM’, Engineering Computations, 2004, 21: 692-707

A5. Küçükarslan S., ‘Dynamic Analysis of Dam Reservoir Foundation Interaction in Time Domain’,  Computational Mechanics, 2004, 33: 274-281. 

A6. Küçükarslan S.,  Banerjee P.K.,  ‘Inelastic Analysis of Pile Soil Interaction ’, ASCE, J. of Geotechnical and Geoenv. Engng.,  2004, 130: 1152-1157.

A7. Küçükarslan S., ‘Time Domain Dynamic Analysis of Dam Reservoir Foundation Interaction Including The Reservoir Bottom Effects’,  Int. J. for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2004, 28: 963-980.

A8. Küçükarslan S.,  Banerjee P.K., ‘Inelastic Dynamic Analysis of Pile Soil Structure Interaction ’, Int. J. of Computational Engineering  Science, 2004, 5:245-258.

A9. Küçükarslan S., ‘An Exact Truncation Boundary Condition for Incompressible-Unbounded Fluid Domains’,  Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2005, 163:60-69.

A10. Küçükarslan S.,  Coşkun, SB., Taşkın B.,   ‘Transient Analysis of Dam-Reservoir Interaction  Including The Reservoir Bottom Effects’’, J. Fluids and Structure, 2005, 20:1073-84.

A11. Taşkın B., Küçükarslan S., ‘A Computationally Efficient Solution of The Wave Equation for the Transient Response of Infinite Reservoirs’, Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2005, 75 (1): 68-77.

A12. Bildik N.,  Konuralp A,  Bek F.O., Küçükarslan S., ‘Solution of different type of the partial differential equation by differential transform method and Adomian’s decomposition method ’,  Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2006, 172 (1): 551-567. 

A13.Darılmaz K , Orakdöğen E,  Girgin K , Küçükarslan S ,  " Torsional  Rigidity of  Arbitrarily Shaped Composite Sections by Hybrid Finite Element Approach, " Steel and Composite Structures, 2007, Vol.7 , No.3, 241-251.

A14. Saygun A,  Omurtag MH,  Girgin K, Orakdöğen E, Küçükarslan S, Darılmaz K,  "A Simplifed Solution of the Torsional Rigidity of the Composite Beams by Using FEM", Advances in Structural Engineering, 2007 Vol.10 , No.5, 467-473.

A15. Küçükarslan S,  Banerjee PK   “Inelastic transient analysis of piles in nonhomogeneous soil”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics 2007, Vol. 26 (5): 545-556. 

A16. Küçükarslan, S. “Transient analysis of piles and pile groups in nonhomogenous soil”,  Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2008, 78 (1): 21-31.

A17. Hızel E., Küçükarslan, S. “Homotopy perturbation method for (2+1) dimensional coupled Burgers system ”, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2009, 10, 1932-1938.

A18. Küçükarslan, S.,  “Homotopy perturbation method for coupled Schrödinger–KdV equation”, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2009, 10: 2264-2271

A19. Küçükarslan, S. “Numerical Analysis of Higher Dimensional Dispersive Long Wave Equation”,  Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2009, 79:  433-440.

 A20. Hızel E., Küçükarslan, S. “Homotopy Perturbation Method for Higher Dimensional Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations ”, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, 2009, in press.

A21. Hızel E., Küçükarslan, S. “Homotopy Perturbation Method for Inhomogenous Nonlinear Partial  Differential Equations ”, Topological Methods in Nonlinear Sciences , 2009, in press.

A22. Orakdöğen E., Küçükarslan S., Sofiyev A., Omurtag M.H.,“FEA of Functionally Graded Plates for Coupling Effect of Extension and Bending, Meccanica, 2009, in press

 

B.     International Conference Papers

B.1. Küçükarslan, S. , Banerjee, P.K., “Nonlinear Transient Dynamic Analysis of Piles”, Fifth International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering,  2002, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul.

B.2.  Küçükarslan, S. , Banerjee, P.K., “Nonlinear Static Analysis of Pile Soil Interaction”, Fifth International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, 2002, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul.

B.3.  Küçükarslan, S., Banerjee, P.K., “Inelastic Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction under Static Loading”, ECAS2002 International Symposium on Structural and Earthquake Engineering, October, 2002, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

B.4.  Küçükarslan, S., Banerjee, P.K., “Nonlinear Pile-Soil-Structure Interaction under Transient Impact Loading”, 3rd International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology,  2002, Prag, Czech Republic.

B.5.  Küçükarslan, S., “Dam-Reservoir Interaction for Incompressible-Unbounded Fluid Domains Using A New Truncation Boundary Condition”, The Ninth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engng. Computing, 2003, Egmond aan Zee, Holland.

B.6.  Küçükarslan, S., “Dam Reservoir Interaction Including the Reservoir Bottom Effects In Time Domain”, 16th  ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference,2003, Seattle ,WA, USA

B.7.  Küçükarslan, S., “Analytical Formulation for The Harmonic Excitation of Pile Supported Structures”, 6th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering,  2004, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul.

B.8.  Küçükarslan, S., “An efficient dynamic analysis of  dam-reservoir-foundation interaction problem”, 4th FAE International Symposium ,  2006, Lefke European University, Lefke , Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic.

B.9.  Küçükarslan, S., “The effect of a transient dynamic loaded pile on a neighbouring pile for nonhomogenous soils”,  International Earthquake Symposium, 2007,  Kocaeli, Turkey

B.10. Hızel, E.,  Küçükarslan, S., “A numerical analysis of Burger’s-Poisson equation using VIM” , 3rd  Int Conf. on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, 2007, Tenerife,  Canarian Islands, Spain

B.11. Küçükarslan S., Demir A. "Node Mapping Correction for Universal Serendipity Element  under Dynamic Loads".  4th International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Jeju, South Korea, 2008.

B.12. Küçükarslan S., Demir A.  "The Use of Universal Serendipity Elements for Dynamic Problems". 8th International Congress on Advances in  Civil Engineering (ACE2008),  Gazi Magosa,  Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic, 2008.

B.13. Küçükarslan S.  " The Application of Universal Serendipity Elements as Transition Elements in The Transient Problems”, The 2009 Joint ASCEASMESES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, VA, USA, 2009.

B.14. Küçükarslan S., Kumbasar Y. "Analysis of Floor Acceleration Demands in Multistory Buildings”,  2nd  Joint Student and International Seminar on Civil Infrastructures, Bangkok,Thailand, 2009.

 

C.     National Journal Papers (in Turkish)

C.1. Küçükarslan, S., “PB-SN Lehimleri İçin Gerilme Modeli”, SAÜ Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, 7 (3), 173-178, 2003   

 

D.    National Conference Papers (in Turkish)

D.1. Utku  M., Küçükarslan S., ‘İzoparametrik Formülasyonda Dönüşüm Bozukluklarnın Giderilmesi’, İMG II. Teknik Kongre, Eylül 1995,Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul.

D.2. Küçükarslan S., Coşkun S.B. ‘Dam Reservoir Interaction Including the Reservoir Bottom Effects under Earthquake Ground Motion’, 5. Ulusal Deprem Mühendisliği Konferansı, 2003, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, İstanbul.

D.3. Küçükarslan S., ‘Kazıklı Temel ve Gibson Zemininin Zaman Tanım Alanında Etkileşimi, 2. Geoteknik Sempozyumu, 2007, Adana.

 

Other Academic Activities

Reviewer for Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Engineering Structures, ASCE J. of Hydraulic Engineering.

Head of Mechanics Division, Celal Bayar University (2000-2005).