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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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! [frame align=”center”][/frame] [frame align=”center”] [/frame]

[frame align=”center”][/frame] 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 […]

[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. […]

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 […]