Research Interests

3D numerical investigation of nonlinear seismic soil-structure interaction in masonry towers, solid FEM modelling in OpenSees, implementing constitutive models (C++), implicit-explicit numerical integration, cyclic constitutive modeling of soils, computational soil-structure interaction, seismic analysis of shallow-founded masonry structures.

Education

Ph.D., Earthquake Engineering, IUSS Pavia and University of Pavia, Italy (2024)

M.S., Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, IUSS Pavia, Italy (2019) MSc THESIS

M.S., Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (2018)

B.S., Civil Engineering, TED University, Ankara, Turkey (2017)

Publications

• Akan, O.D., O'Reilly, G.J., & Monteiro, R. (2022). Simplified modelling and pushover analysis of infilled frame structures accounting for strut flexibility. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 51(6), 1383–1409. https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3620

Teaching Experience

• TA in Reinforced Concrete Structures

  Instructors: Güney Özcebe

  ROSE Master curriculum, Pavia

• TA in Seismic Hazard and Engineering Seismology

  Instructors: Valerio Poggi

  ROSE Master curriculum, Pavia

• TA in NHERI-SimCenter 2022 Programming Bootcamp (online short course)

  Instructors: Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein & Frank McKenna

  Python, C and C++ languages, parallel programming with OpenMP and MPI, and Unix command line

• Lab Assistant and Tutor

  TED University, Ankara

  Tutoring in Introduction to Physics and Numerical Methods courses Assistant in Hydromechanics laboratory