Nejan Huvaj’s keynote talk at the 27th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference

Dr. Nejan Huvaj gave her first-ever keynote talk on 26 September 2019 at the 27th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (27th EYGEC) that was held in Bodrum, Turkey. The title of the talk was “Stability of natural & man-made slopes: from FS to RFEM and MPM”. She received compliments about her talk from Professors Mario Manassero, George Gazetas, Roger Frank, Pierre Delage, Feyza Cinicioglu. On the same day, there was Professor Pierre Delage’s keynote talk on “The Mechanical Properties of Martian Soils: Insights From In Sight” which was fascinating. Thanks to organizing committee for a wonderful conference! http://eygec2019.org/

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 02.11.2019 under Genel

Undergraduate student Eray Caceoglu’s presentation

METU Civil Engineering Department undergraduate 4th year student and GeoMT Research Group member, Eray Caceoglu successfully presented our study on offshore wind turbine foundations at the 5th National İzmir Wind Energy Conference, on 5 October 2019. Congratulations Eray! ?
– Title of the study: Deniz Üstü Rüzgâr Türbinleri: Temel Tipi Seçimi ve Gerekli Deniz Tabanı Zemin Araştırmaları, Authors: Nejan Huvaj, Eray Caceoğlu, Yelaman Baidol GeoMT research group members, undergraduate students, Yelaman Baidol and Bugrahan Sari also attended the conference.

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 06.10.2019 under Genel

GeoMT group is ready for Fall 2019 semester

Recent news:

– Some of the GeoMT group members graduated! Congratulations to all! Emre Uyeturk (M.S. 2019) is now a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Colorado School of Mines in USA; Hilmi Bayraktaroglu (M.S. 2019) is now a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Delft Univ. of Technology, Sinem Songur and Emre Ozyurek (M.S. 2019) finished their M.S. theses and they continue to their professional engineering life in Ankara.

– New members joined! Muhammet Durmaz and Olgu Orakci are now new M.S. students. Eray Caceoglu, Yelaman Baidol and Bugrahan Sari are new undergraduate students at GeoMT research group.

– Nejan Huvaj will be one of the keynote speakers at the 26th European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference to be held on 26-27 September 2019 in Bodrum, Turkey. The title of her talk is “Stability of natural and man-made slopes: from FS to RFEM and MPM”. See the conference program http://eygec2019.org/scientific-program

– GeoMechanics and Technology (GeoMT) Research Group is ready for an exciting new semester! (few members are not in the picture).

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 20.09.2019 under Genel

Visit to Prof. Carlos Santamarina at KAUST

On 18-19 April 2018 Dr. Huvaj and Turkish delegate visited King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to meet with Prof. Carlos Santamarina and to learn about ongoing research at his Energy Geoengineering Laboratory (EGEL https://egel.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Home.aspx). Looking forward to future collaboration with KAUS.

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 24.04.2018 under Genel

Colleagues from Niigata University visited Turkey in March 2018

Prof. Hiroshi Fukuoka, Prof. Yutaka Gonda, students Dabycharun Bhoopendra and Hiroki Muto from Niigata University, Japan, visited Turkey in March 2018 as part of Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Program of MEXT GLocalAge 2020 Exchange Program. Together with Dr. Huvaj and other colleagues, they carried out fieldwork in landslide sites in the city of Rize, and seminars and laboratory visits in Ankara. We are happy to collaborate and we thank MEXT GLocalAge program coordinated by Niigata University for the funding provided.

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Posted by geomechanics & technology on 24.04.2018 under Genel

Master Thesis Defence of Emir Ahmet Oguz

Emir Ahmet Oguz of GeoMT research group defended his Master's thesis study on “Spatial probabilistic evaluation of sea bottom soil properties and its effect on foundation design” on 27 December 2017. One of the journal papers related to his work is accepted for publication (Oguz, E.A., Huvaj, N., and Griffiths, D.V. (2018) Vertical Spatial Correlation Length Based on Standard Penetration Tests, Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, accepted in Feb 2018).

Congratulations Emir!

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 02.04.2018 under Genel

Can Simsek’s Masters Thesis Defence

Can Simsek from GeoMT research group defended his Masters thesis study on the “BEHAVIOR OF GEOCELL REINFORCED SANDY SOILS UNDER STATIC LOAD” on 20 December 2017. Congratulations Can!

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Posted by geomechanics & technology on 21.12.2017 under Genel

GeoMT Research Group Will Be at the 7th Geotechnical Symposium in Istanbul on 22-24 November 2017

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GeoMT research group will be attending Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers 7th Geotechnical Symposium with International Participation on 22-24th of November 2017 in Istanbul. Dr. Huvaj and Emir Ahmet Oğuz will be presenting their recent study on “Variability in Seabottom Sediments and Effects on Bearing Capacity and Settlement of Strip Foundations”. Along with GeoMT alumni, numerous other researchers both national and international will be presenting their studies at the symposium.

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Posted by geomechanics & technology on 17.11.2017 under Genel

Dr. Huvaj’s TUBITAK CAREER Project

[frame align=”center”][/frame] Asst. Prof. Nejan HUVAJ, faculty member at METU Civil Engineering Department, is the principal investigator of a newly funded TUBITAK 3501 CAREER project entitled “Interaction of Marginal Fills and Geogrids for Reinforced Soil Walls and Slopes”. The project, which started in October 2017, will be finalized in 2020. One Ph.D. and one M.S. student will be project assistants in this research project. The main objective of this project is to investigate the interaction of marginal fill materials and novel geosynthetics in geogrid-reinforced walls and slopes by laboratory experiments and with numerical modelling, in the end to provide recommendations for the development of a technical standard.

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Reinforced soil slope and wall constructions are quite popular because of their advantages in terms of, construction speed, durability and construction cost. The use of granular backfill material is the recommended practice by most international design guidelines. That being said, these granular material may not be found near the construction sites and should be transferred to the site from far distances, also causing the site-available fill materials to be discarded. The cost, availability and transportation of granular material raise the cost of construction. There are significant economic and environmental benefits in using marginal fill materials readily available on site, or waste materials from different industries. Marginal fill material is defined as a predominantly granular soil, having high fines content. Considering life-cycle cost assessment, sustainability and green construction, the use of locally available fill materials (or other waste materials) can provide environmental benefits, for example, by reducing carbon footprint of projects.

 

This project aims to contribute to the usage of marginal fill in geogrid-reinforced earth walls and slopes. For this purpose, large direct shear tests (width 300 mm x length 300 mm x height 300 mm) will be conducted to investigate soil-geogrid interaction mechanism for granular soils having different fines contents (0 up to %40) and having different plasticity indices. Also, different and novel geogrids will be utilized and the effect of different geogrid characteristics will be analyzed. Additionally, negative and positive pore water pressures will be measured and its effect on interaction mechanism, bond coefficients and interface shear properties will be discussed. Furthermore, numerical simulations of geogrid-soil interaction mechanism will be carried out.

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 17.11.2017 under Genel

METU team ranked in the top three at ASCE GeoInstitute student competition

The team composed of METU Civil Engineering Department undergraduate student Celal Emre Uyeturk and graduate student, research assistant, Emir Ahmet Oguz ranked in the top three teams at ASCE GeoInstitute Annual Geoprediction student competition. They are invited by ASCE GeoInstitute to Orlando, Florida on 13 March 2017 to make a presentation and compete in the final assessment. The student competition was about the most accurate prediction of time-dependent settlement and lateral deformations under an embankment loading over soft soil next to a river. There were prefabricated vertical drains in soft soil and a geotextile underneath the embankment. We congratulate METU team!

Posted by geomechanics & technology on 07.02.2017 under Genel

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