Bulent Akbas
Gebze Technical University
Turkey
Biography
Bulent Akbas obtained his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering in 1997 from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. He has been conducting research and teaching structural and earthquake engineering at the Department of Earthquake and Structural Engineering, Gebze Technical University, Turkey, since 1999. He has published more than 100 journals and conference papers in the area of seismic behavior and design of steel structures, performance-based earthquake resistant design and evaluation of structures, non-building structures, historical structures, structural health monitoring, and soil-structure interaction. He is a member of the seismic design of steel structures committee in Turkey.