Cigdem Avci-Karatas
Yalova University
Turkey
Biography
Cigdem Avci-Karatas received her PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul. She joined the department of Transportation Engineering at the University of Yalova as an assistant professor in June 2014. Her research area focuses on structural engineering, earthquake engineering, and some specific issues of steel structures. She has developed, designed, fabricated, and tested metallic seismic energy dissipation device labeled as TURKBRACE-BRB in her doctoral research work. She has received 2013 the Best PhD Thesis Award at Structural Engineering in ITU. She is a member of the scientific board of the World Sustainable Energy Institute
Abstract
Abstract : Comparison of Steel and Composite Analysis of a Multi-storey Building