Our Structural Mechanics Laboratory has been active since 2017. As of today, 4 Scientific Projects have been completed and 3 more Scientific Projects are still ongoing. These projects are at both International and National levels. Many academic publications and graduate theses studies have been conducted by now.
• Structural Mechanics Undergraduate Education Framework
• Polyester Sling Type 1
• Polyester Sling Type 2
• Polyester Sling Type 3
• Polyester Sling Type 4
• Polyester Sling Type 5
• Polyester Sling Type 6
• Spirit Level Type 1
• Spirit Level Type 2
• Spirit Level Type 3
• Spirit Level Type 4
• Electronic Crane Type Scale
• Full Tool Cabinet
• Anvil
• Drilling Crusher Type 1
• Drilling Crusher Type 2
• Drill
• Drill Bits
• Drill Breaker Bits Type 1
• Drill Breaker Bits Type 2
• Shovel
• Betonyer
• Portable Projector
• Secondary cable
• Tape Measure
• Metal Square Type 1
• Metal Square Type 2
• Reinforcement Scissors Type 1
• Reinforcement Scissors Type 2
• Vibrator
• Anvil
• Torture Type 1
• Torture Type 2
• Torture Type 3
• Drilling Crusher Type 1
• Drilling Crusher Type 2
• Drill
• Drill Bits
• Drill Breaker Bits Type 1
• Drill Breaker Bits Type 2
• Welder
• Welding Electrode
• Cordless Screwdriver
• Cordless Screwdriver Bit Set
• Fox Tail
• Multimeter
• Grinding Tool
• Angle Grinder
• Handsaw Type 1
• Handsaw Type 2
• Vise
• Reinforcement Bending Machine
• Band Saw Machine
• Mapa
• Lenko
• Carazkal Type 1
• Carazkal Type 2
• Carazkal Type 3
• Motorized Carazkal
• Hydraulic Coupling Set
• Hydraulic Hose Type 1
• Hydraulic Hose Type 2
• Hydraulic Piston Type 1
• Hydraulic Piston Type 2
• Hydraulic Pump Type 1
• Hydraulic Pump Type 2
• LVDT Type 1
• LVDT Type 2
• LVDT Type 3
• LVDT Type 4
• LVDT Type 5
• LVDT Type 6
• Flat Type Load Cell 3
• Flat Type Load Cell 4
• Flat Type Load Cell 5
• Linear Potentiometric Displacement Sensor Type 1
• Linear Potentiometric Displacement Sensor Type 2
• Linear Potentiometric Displacement Sensor Type 3
• Linear Potentiometric Displacement Sensor Type 4
• Linear Potentiometric Displacement Sensor Type 5
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baki Ozturk
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alper Aldemir
• Dr. Burcu Güldür Erkal
• Şaban Akduman
• Rafet Aktepe
• Oznur Kocaer
• Özge Gizem Akikol
• Gamze Mütevelli Özkan (PhD Student)
• Abdulkadir Özalp (PhD Student)
• Ali Erhan Yılmaz (PhD Student)
• Onur Coşkun (PhD Student)
• Ömer Faruk Çınar (PhD Student)
• Can Kurt (PhD Student)
• Faysal Nori (PhD Student)
• Zeynel Altay Şahin (PhD Student)
• Ali Akgöz (YL Student)
• Muhammed Furkan Erdoğan (YL Student)
• Muhammed Alankuş (MS Student)
• Sertaç Uçak (YL Student)
• Detection of Figural Defects in Light Steel Elements from Three Dimensional Data Clouds and Using in Numerical Modeling, TÜBİTAK, 217M513,
• Lego Construction System of “Green” Structural Components for Low-cost Housing, Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund, 218M102.
• ICEBERG: Innovative Circular Economy Based solutions demonstrating the Efficient recovery of valuable material Resources from the Generation of representative End-of-Life building materials, Horizon 2020.
• "Civil Engineering Department Building Mechanics and Building Materials Laboratories Machinery-Equipment Purchase" (FAY-2015-6559), Hacettepe University, BAP Project, Coordinator: Baki ÖZTÜRK.
• "Determination of Principles for Development of Seismic Damage Vulnerability Index Framework" (1059B), TÜBİTAK Project, Coordinator: Baki ÖZTÜRK.
• “Period estimation equation development for concrete dams in case of empty reservoirs, Alper Aldemir, Hacettepe University, FBB-2017-16271.
• “Development of the Period Estimation Equation for Full Reservoir Concrete Gravity Dams Considering the Dam-Ground-Reservoir Effects and Valley Geometry in Three Dimension”, Alper Aldemir, TÜBİTAK, 217M410.
• Öztürk, B., “Seismic Behavior of Two Monumental Buildings in Historical Cappadocia Region of Turkey Considering Displacement-Based Approach”, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Volume 15, Issue 7, pp 3103–3123 (2017).
• Hessabi, R.M., Mercan, O. ve B. Öztürk, “Exploring the effects of tuned mass dampers on the seismic performance of structures with nonlinear base isolation systems”, Earthquakes and Structures, Vol.12, Issue 3, pp 285-296 (2017).
• Çetin, H., Aydın, E. and B. Öztürk, “Optimal Damper Allocation in Shear Buildings with Tuned Mass Dampers and Viscous Damper”, International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering, Vol.2, Issue 2, pp 1-24 (2017).
• Aydın, E., Öztürk, B. and M. Dutkiewicz, “Analysis of efficiency of passive dampers in multistorey buildings”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.439, pp 17-28 (2019).
• Çetin, H., Aydın, E. and B. Öztürk, “Optimal Design and Distribution of Viscous Dampers for Shear Building Structures under Seismic Excitations”, Frontiers in Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2019.00090 (2019).
• Aydın, E., Dutkiewicz, M., Öztürk, B., & M. Sönmez, “Optimization of Elastic Spring Supports for Cantilever Beams”, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Volume 62, Pages 55-81 (2020).
• Aydın, E., Öztürk, B., Farsangi, E.N. and A. Bogdanovic, “Editorial: New Trends and Developments on Structural Control & Health Monitoring”, Frontiers in Built Environment (2020).
• Aydın, E., Öztürk, B., Bogdanovic, A. and E. Noroozinejad, “Influence of Soil-Structure Interaction on the Optimum Design of Passive Damping Devices”, Structures, Volume 28, Pages 847-862 (2020).
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Dutkiewicz, H. Çetin, O. Okkay, U. Ohancan and Y.E. Şirin, “Experiments of Tuned Liquid Damper (TLD) on the Reduced Shear Frame Model under Harmonic Loads”, Experimental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) 2016 Conference, Czech Republic,
November 2016.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, H. Çetin and T. Simsek, “Application of Viscous Dampers for Prevention of Pounding in Adjacent Reinforced Concrete Buildings”, 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16WCEE), Santiago, Chile, January 2017 .
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Dutkiewicz, “Optimal Passive Control of Shear Buildings”, 23rd International Conference on Engineering Mechanics 2017, May 2017, Svratka, Czechia.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Dutkiewicz, “Control of vibrations of multistorey buildings with use of passive dampers”, 14th International Conference, Dynamical Systems - Theory and Applications, December 2017, Lodz, Poland.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Dutkiewicz, H. Çetin, O. Okkay, U. Ohancan, YE Şirin, “Experiments of Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) on the Reduced Shear Frames under Harmonic Loads”, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), June 2018,
Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Dutkiewicz, “Determination of Optimal Elastic Springs for Cantilever Beams Supported by Elastic Foundation”, 24th International Conference on Engineering Mechanics 2018, Svratka, Czechia, May 2018.
• Aydın, E., O. Sivrikaya, B. Öztürk, “Comparison of Optimal Damper Distributions in Shear Frames in Terms of Soil Conditions”, The 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (7WCSCM), July 2018, Qingdao, China.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, H. Çetin, M. Gasır, “Strengthening Plane Frames with Steel Plates”, The 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (7WCSCM), July 2018, Qingdao, China.
• Çetin, H., E. Aydin, B. Öztürk, “Design of a Viscous Damper Based on Minimization of First Floor Interstorey Drift (IDR)”, The 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (7WCSCM), July 2018, Qingdao , China.
• Aydın, E., A. Bogdanovic, B. Öztürk, “Viscous Damper Design Considering Soil-Structure Interaction”, The 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, September 2018, Malta.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, H. Çetin, M. Tanrıkulu, F.S. Gür, “Application of Viscous Fluid Dampers to Rehabilitate Structural Vibrations”, ASCE-EMI 2019 International Conference, July 2019, Lyon, France.
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk, M. Batı, Y. Kavaz, B. Kılıç, “Effects of Tuned Liquid Column Damper Properties on The Dynamic Response of Structures”, ASCE-EMI 2019 International Conference, July 2019, Lyon, France.
• Çetin, H., E. Aydin, B. Öztürk, “Optimum Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) Design for The Cantilever Beam Response Reduction”, 4th Polish Congress of Mechanics and 23rd International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics PCM-CMM-2019 , Kraków, Poland.
• Coşkun, S.B. and B. Öztürk, “Analysis of Nanobeam Vibration Using Homotopy Perturbation Method”, 5th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME 2019), Istanbul.
• Coşkun, S.B. and B. Öztürk, “Stability of Nanobeams Via Homotopy Perturbation Method”, 5th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME 2019), Istanbul.
• Coşkun, S.B. and B. Öztürk, “Analysis of Longitudinal Vibration of Nanorods Via Homotopy Perturbation Method”, 5th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME 2019), Istanbul.
• Aydin, E., Öztürk, B. and O Sivrikaya, “Optimal Damper Distributions in Shear Frames Considering Soil Conditions”, EuroDyn 2020 (XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics), Athens, Greece.
• Çetin, H., Öztürk, B. and E Aydin, “Optimal Viscous Damper Placement to Prevent Pounding of Adjacent Buildings”, EuroDyn 2020 (XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics), Athens, Greece.
• Çetin, H., Aydın, E. and B Öztürk, “Optimum Parameters and Location of Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers Under Seismic Excitation”, 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), Sendai, Japan.
• Doğan-Sağlamtimur, N., A. Bilgil and B. Öztürk, “Reusability of Ashes for The Building Sector to Strengthen The Sustainability of Waste Management,” Handbook of Research on Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Development, Pages 265-281, IGI
Global Publications, U.S.A. (2018).
• Aydın, E., E.N. Farsangi, B. Öztürk, A. Bogdanovic, M. Dutkiewicz, “Improvement of Building Resilience by Viscous Dampers”, Resilient Structures and Infrastructure, Pages 105-128, Springer, Germany (2019).
• Aydın, E., B. Öztürk and M. Dikmen, “Optimal Damper Placement to Prevent Pounding of Adjacent Structures Considering a Target Damping Ratio and Relative Displacement”, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Journal of Engineering Sciences, 6 (2),
581-592 (2018).
• Çetin, H., E. Aydın and B. Öztürk, “Application of a Mixed Passive Control in Structures with Tuned Mass Dampers and Viscous Dampers”, 20TUMTMK Mechanics Conference, Bursa (2017).
• Coşkun, S.B., S. Memis, B. Öztürk, “Obtaining the Critical Buckling Loads of Columns with Variable Bending Stiffness Exponentially by Differential Transformation”, 21TUMTMK Mechanics Conference, Niğde (2019).