Research

Structural and Earthquake Engineering

Prof. Dr. Gülay Altay  

Design of steel structures, Structural connections, structural stability, earthquake resistant design, structural control, repair and retrofitting of historical structures, cold-formed steel structures, plates and smart structures.

Dr. Bülent Erkmen

Experimental methods, seismic performance of concrete/steel structures, advanced finite element analysis, fluid-structure interaction and CFD, blast performance of industrial/critical structures.

Dr. Taner Yılmaz   

Risk and reliability analysis, earthquake engineering, structural performance assessment under multi hazards, seismic resilience, soil-structure interaction, seismic base isolation. (http://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/taneryilmaz/)

Dr. Derya Deniz

Earthquake engineering, structural collapse modeling, multi-hazard performance for buildings,  hazard damage and loss, post-disaster recovery,  risk-based decision making, disaster resilience. (http://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/deryadeniz/)

Dr. Hadi Valizadeh

Experimental Modeling, Seismic Performance of Steel Structures, Advanced Finite Element Analysis, Shell and Plates modeling, and Innovative Steel Plate Shear Walls.

Construction Materials

Dr. Zeynep Bundur

Self-healing cement-based materials, bio-based concrete additives, resource and energy efficient alternative cementitious materials, concrete rheology  and digital production technologies. (http://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/zeynepbasaran/)

Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering

Prof. Dr. Atilla Ansal   

Laboratory and field soil investigation, soil behaviour and constitutive relations, soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard, strong earthquake ground motion, seismic microzonation, liquefaction, earthquake scenarios.

Prof. Dr. Feyza Çinicioğlu

Behavior of embankments on soft clays, development of new methodologies for embankment design and construction on soft clays, macro and micro soil behavior, observational methods and soil-structure interaction.

Dr. Hadi Valizadeh

No Erosion Filter Tests, Shaking Table Tests, Numerical Simulation, Liquefaction, Buried Pipelines, Large-Scale Monopiles of Offshore Wind Turbine, Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI).

Construction Management

Dr. Senem Seyis

Construction project management, lean construction, decision making support systems, sustainable built environment, Information Technologies in construction industry and Building Information Modeling.

Transportation Engineering 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bekir Bartın

Traffic safety, microscopic traffic simulation models, traffic data analysis, transportation economy, reinforcement learning.

Hydraulics and Urban Physics 

Dr. Yiğit Can Altan

Resolution of climate and climate change on the built environment, urban heat island, computational fluid dynamics, big data management, maritime transportation and traffic.