Farid Saeidi

Was born in Tabriz (Iran) in 1986. Graduated from Mechanical Engineering bachelor program of Azad University-Tabriz branch in 2009. He pursued his graduate studies in Mechanical engineering department of Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and received his master degree in 2013. He worked on numerical simulation and fracture analysis of advanced composites. Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Aerospace Department of Middle East Technical University under supervision of Dr. Aslan and working in CSE-Lab as a research assistant since 2015. His current research is mainly focused on numerical modelling of Thermal Barrier Coatings for turbine blades in gas turbines.

Farid Saeidi

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Was born in Turkey in 1987. Graduated from Civil Engineering bachelor program of Middle East Technical University in 2013. She pursued her graduate studies in Engineering Science Department of Middle East Technical University and received her master degree in 2018. She worked on computational mechanics and analytical solutions for partially plastic deformation of a curved beam under pure bending. Currently she is pursuing her Ph.D. at Mechanical Engineering Department of Atılım University under the supervision of Dr. Aslan since 2018. Her current research is mainly focused on numerical modeling and simulation of electromagnetic forming process.

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Kamil Armagan Gül

Was born in Istanbul in 1984. Graduated from Metallurgical and Material Engineering bachelor program of Istanbul Technical University in 2007. He pursued his graduate studies in Mechanics of Materials in Ecole des Mines de Paris (France), received his master degree in 2009. He completed second master degree in İstanbul Technical University in Material Engineering program in 2010. He worked on numerical simulation of nanoindentation experiments  and plasticity of metallic materials with isotropic plasticity and crystal plasticity. Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Program of Istanbul Technical University under co-supervision of Dr. Aslan and working in Oyak-Renault Automobile Factories since January 2017. His current research is mainly focused on Development ,Mechanical Behavior Modelling and Simulations of the Al/Mg Based Ligh Alloys for automotive applications.

Kamil Armagan Gül

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Was born in Bursa in 1981 and received his B.Sc. from Mechanical Engineering Department at METU in 2003. After 10 years of professional experience in automotive industry, he has been working at FNSS Defence System Co. Inc as an R&D engineer since 2013. He has completed his M.Sc. studies in 2018 at Atilim University and started his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Aslan. Currently, he is working on the rate and pressure dependent constitutive material modeling of casting components used in armored combat vehicles aiming at predicting the response in high velocity impacts.

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