RESEARCH AREAS
- Experimental and numerical assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings under static and dynamic loading.
- Computational stochastic mechanics.
- Statistical approach for reliability of structures.
- Safety assessment and performance evaluation of existing buildings, code integration.
- Damage classification and characterizations of RC buildings (and/or components) and heritage constructions.
- Repair and retrofit solutions for RC buildings (and/or components) and heritage constructions.
- Mechanical characterization of RC components, RC frames, masonry walls (i.e., brick walls, natural stone walls, infills), infill wall-RC frame interaction.
- Development of innovative strengthening solutions using advanced materials, such as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) and shape memory alloys (SMA).
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TO INDUSTRY
- 3D modeling of RC members, nonlinear analysis in combination with statistical methods.
- Implementation of experimental and numerical methods for structural and non-structural behavior of reinforced concrete and heritage constructions.
- Use of strengthening methods together with development and validation for RC components and heritage constructions.
- Vulnerability and risk assessment for identifying existing weaknesses in assets due to natural disasters.
- Geometric, physical, and mechanical characterization tests of RC components, masonry walls, and RC materials.
RESEARCH TEAM
Integrated Members:
Özgür Yurdakul
Ladislav Řoutil
Research Collaborators:
Petr Vnenk
Bohumil Culek
Filip Klejch
Václav Štech
Jiří Šlapák (photo, video)
Ph.D. Students:
Kristýna Fikejsová
Zdeněk Sháněl
Tilong Shan
International Cooperation:
Özgür Avsar (Turkey)
Ciro Del Vecchio (Italy)
Marco Di Ludovico (Italy)
Wael Hassan (USA)
Burak Duran (USA)
STUDY WITH US: Join our friendly environment. We are looking for enthusiastic colleagues that can contribute to our team. We will be very happy to share our experience. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
PUBLICATIONS
Yurdakul Ö., Del Vecchio C., Di Ludovico M., Routil L., Avşar Ö. Crack width-based fragility curves for repairability of substandard beam-column joints, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2021, Volume 19, Issue 14, pp. 6081–6111.
Birinci Kayaalp F., Yurdakul Ö., Routil L. Stochastic assessment of concrete core strength in fire exposed specimens simulating non-engineered RC structures in Turkey, Construction and Building Materials, 2021, Volume 289, Article number 123133.
Yurdakul O, Duran B., Tunaboyu O., and Avşar O. “Field reconnaissance on seismic performance of RC buildings after the January 24, 2020 Elaziğ-Sivrice earthquake”, Natural Hazards, doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04340-x, 2021.
Yurdakul, Ö., Balaban, E., Artagan, S.S., Routil, L. Stochastic assessment of bond-slip behavior of plain round bars in low strength concrete, Engineering Structures, 2021, Volume 229, Article number 111658.
Yurdakul Ö., Del Vecchio C., Di Ludovico M., Routil L., Avşar Ö. Damage evolution for repairability of substandard beam-column joints, In Proc. of 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2021). Streamed from Athens, Greece, 28-30 June 2021, pp. 120–130, ISBN: 978-618-85072-5-8.
Yurdakul O., Del Vecchio C., Di Ludovico M., and Avşar O. “Numerical simulation of substandard beam-column joints with different failure mechanisms”, Structural Concrete; 10.1002/suco.201900003, 2020.
Yurdakul, Ö., Tunaboyu, O., Routil, L., Avşar, Ö. Parameter Sensitivity of CFRP Retroffited Substabdard Joints by Stochastic Computational Mechanics, Composite Structures, 2020, 238:112003, doi: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112003.
Yurdakul, Ö., Tunaboyu, O., Routil, L., Avşar, Ö. Stochastic-Based Nonlinear Numerical Modeling of Shear Critical RC Beam Repaired with Bonded CFRP Sheets, Journal of Composites for Construction, 2020, 23(5), 04019042.
Borecky, V., Haburaj, F., Artagan, S., Routil, L. Analysis of GPR and FWD Data Dependency Based on Road Test Field Surveys, Materials Evaluation 2019, Volume 77, Issue 2, pp. 214–225.
Yurdakul, Ö., Del Vecchio, C., Di Ludovico, M., Řoutil, L., Avşar, Ö. Sensitivity of the Cyclic Response of Substandard Beam-Column Joints to Material Properties. In Proc. of 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2019). M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis (eds.), Crete, Greece, 24–26 June 2019. Atény: National Technical University of Athens, 2019. pp. 1115-1125, ISBN 978-618-82844-5-6.
Yurdakul O., Tunaboyu O. and Avsar O., “Retrofit of non-seismically designed beam-column joints by post-tensioned superelastic shape memory alloy bars”, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 10.1007/s10518-018-0323-y, 2018.
Teply, B., Rovnanikova, M., Routil, L., Schejbal, R. Time-Variant Performance of Concrete Sewer Pipes Undergoing Biogenic Sulfuric Acid Degradation, JOURNAL OF PIPELINE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND PRACTICE, 2018, Volume 9, Issue 4.
Yurdakul, Ö., Tunaboyu, O., Routil, L., Avşar, Ö. A stochastic model for the capacity estimation of non-seismically designed beam-column joints, Proceedings of the 12th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering, 2018, pp. 813–819.
Bozkurt, F., Yurdakul, O., Hojka, P., Routil, L., Balaban, E., Artagan, S. Mechanical Properties of Structural Steel Exposed to Passive Fire, 27th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials (METAL 2018), pp. 622–627.
Tunaboyu, O., Yurdakul, Ö., Korkmaz, Ö., Řoutil, L., Avşar, Ö. Reliability analysis of a shear-critical beam. In 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy. Oakland: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2018. pp. 5008-5017, ISBN 978-1-5108-7325-4.
See also our activities in ORCID:
Özgür Yurdakul: Özgür YURDAKUL (0000-0002-8128-0141) (orcid.org)
Ladislav Řoutil: Ladislav Řoutil (0000-0003-1095-3975) (orcid.org)
Projects
TJ04000301, TAČR Zéta – Nedestruktivní stanovení mechanického napětí v bezstykové koleji (2020–2022)
CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/20_321/0024477; OP PIK – Smart Parking & Charging (2021–2023)
EU – Horizon Europe; European Institute of Innovation and Technology – INVENTHEI – INnoVation and ENTrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions (495), (2021–2023)
Development of Education Modules for Safety Critical Railway Operation Systems, Supported by EU-Erasmus+, 2020-1-TR01-KA202-093028
