Korkmaz, Sinan

Korkmaz, Sinan

Sinan Korkmaz is a structural engineer working on biomimetic characteristics of active deployable tensegrity structures. Korkmaz's work focuses on the following aspects of tensegrity structures:

1. design an active control system in order to ensure damage tolerance of a deployable tensegrity pedestrian bridge
2. extend existing strategies for self-diagnosis of the deployable tensegrity bridge to avoid ambiguous results
3. extend existing strategies in order to achieve a more robust self-repair scheme
4. develop algorithms that allow the active control system to learn efficiently using case-based reasoning
5. validate the methodologies developed with experiments on a near full-scale (1/3) model.

Korkmaz's research plan can be accessed http://imacwww.epfl.ch/Team/Korkmaz/Biomimetic%20Characteristics%20of%20an%20Active%20Deployable%20Structure.pdf here. A poster demonstrating his current work is accessible http://imacwww.epfl.ch/Team/Korkmaz/Korkmaz_Poster_YES.pdf here.

Korkmaz educational and career details

Korkmaz did his undergraduate work in civil engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He obtained a M.Sc. degree from Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Structures program at Bauhaus University (BU) Graduate School in Structural Engineering. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. at Swiss Federal institute of Technology (ETH).

Blog link

http://sinan-korkmaz.blogspot.com/