Nuri Ersoy

• Additive Manufacturing
• Crashing Behaviour of Composite Structures
• Wind Energy Applications, design, analysis and manufacturing of composite wind turbine blades
• Manufacturing and mechanical properties of nanocomposites, filled and reinforced engineering plastics and rubber.
• Characterization of plastic materials (cure kinetics and crystallization using DSC, DTMA) for process modeling.
• Processing of advanced fiber reinforced composites and nanocomposites
• Modeling and Measurement of Residual Stresses
• Finite element modeling of thermoplastic and thermoset composites processing including heat transfer, crystallization/curing, material response, shrinkage, residual stress development and warpage
• Fatigue and fracture of metallic materials
• Elastic-plastic modeling of cyclic loading in metals.
• Road simulation testing of automotive components and substructures

Hakan Ertürk

• Design and control of thermal and energy systems
• Nanotechnology in energy applications
• Thermal management of opto/electronic systems
• Inverse problems of thermal design and sensing

Fazıl Önder Sönmez

• Composites design and manufacturing
• Structural optimization
• Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes
• Analysis of structures by finite elements

Çetin Yılmaz

• Multi-body dynamics
• Vibrations and acoustics, vibration isolation systems
• Phononic band gap structures, elastic metamaterials
• Passive anti-resonance generation methods
• Design of displacement amplifiers and motion converters