Concrete and Earthquake Engineering Research Group

Department of Civil & Structural Engineering

Dr Zuhal Ozdemir

Lecturer

Contact

z.ozdemir@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 (0)114 222 5419

Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street,
Sheffield,
S1 3JD

Profile

Zuhal studied the nonlinear behaviour of anchored and unanchored liquid storage tanks for her PhD. The recent fluid-structure interaction techniques of the FEM were applied to assess the seismic behaviour of tanks. During her PhD, she also worked on the time domain and frequency domain scaling procedures to generate design response spectrum compatible earthquake records. She joined Structural Mechanics Division of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher in 2010. Her research work concentrated on the numerical assessment of the dynamic response of lifelines to ground vibrations using a 2.5D coupled finite element-boundary element (FE-BE) methodology including soil-structure interaction effects.

Recent activities and achievements

Eiffel excellence scholarship of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs 2008 - 2009.

Qualifications

PhD Bogazici University (Turkey) - Université des Sciences et des Technologies de Lille (France), 2010

Research project(s)

Rapid Earthquake Risk Assessment and Post-Earthquake Disaster Management Framework for Substandard Buildings in Turkey

Substandard structures account for a large proportion of the building stock in many large urban areas of developing countries. Such highly vulnerable structures have experienced catastrophic damage during major earthquakes in the past, leading to extensive human, economic and societal losses. For instance, the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake that hit Marmara...

Publication(s)

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(2017). Analysis of substandard RC buildings strengthened with an innovative post-tensioned metal strapping technique. In 16WCEE 2017.
(2017). Numerical simulation of liquid sloshing in tanks. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (Vol. 44, pp. 49-79).
(2017). A Situational Awareness Framework for Improving Earthquake Response, Recovery and Resilience. In 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
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(2016). Energy absorption in lattice structures in dynamics: Experiments. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 89 (2), pp. 49-61. (Full Text).
(2016). Energy absorption in lattice structures in dynamics: Nonlinear FE simulations. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 102 (3), pp. 1-15. (Full Text).
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(2014). On backward dispersion correction of Hopkinson pressure bar signals. Philosophical Transactions A, 372 (2023), pp. 20130291-20130291.
(2013). Numerical evaluation of the dynamic response of pipelines to vibrations induced by the operation of a pavement breaker. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 44 (5), pp. 153-167.

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