24. Ulusal Mekanik Kongresi
02-05 Eylül, 2025, Bakü, Azerbaycan
Erdogan Madenci is a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. degrees in both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and his M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA in 1980, 1981, and 1982, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA in 1987. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he worked at Northrop Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, and Fraunhofer Institute. Also, he worked at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NASA Langley Research Center, Sandia National Labs and MIT as part of his sabbatical leaves. He is the lead author of four books on Peridynamic Differential Operator for Numerical Analysis, Peridynamic Theory and Its Applications, The Finite Element Method Using ANSYS, and Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, and ASME Representative to the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Board. He is an active member of the several technical committees. He will host the 19th New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture (NT2F19) Conference. He is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Erdogan Madenci is a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. degrees in both Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and his M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA in 1980, 1981, and 1982, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA in 1987. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he worked at Northrop Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, and Fraunhofer Institute. Also, he worked at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NASA Langley Research Center, Sandia National Labs and MIT as part of his sabbatical leaves. He is the lead author of four books on Peridynamic Differential Operator for Numerical Analysis, Peridynamic Theory and Its Applications, The Finite Element Method Using ANSYS, and Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, and ASME Representative to the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Board. He is an active member of the several technical committees. He will host the 19th New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture (NT2F19) Conference. He is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Ertugrul Taciroglu earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and after post-doctoral work, joined UCLA in 2001. His research interests span the disciplines of computational mechanics, and structural & geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is currently conducting projects on regional performance-based risk assessment of civil infrastructure, structural health monitoring, soil-structure interaction, and simulation of structural response under extreme loads. Dr. Taciroglu is the recipient of a 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 2011 Walter Huber Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
He was elected to become a Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) in 2015. He is a Section Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals such as Earthquake Spectra, and Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering.
Ertugrul Taciroglu earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and after post-doctoral work, joined UCLA in 2001. His research interests span the disciplines of computational mechanics, and structural & geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is currently conducting projects on regional performance-based risk assessment of civil infrastructure, structural health monitoring, soil-structure interaction, and simulation of structural response under extreme loads. Dr. Taciroglu is the recipient of a 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 2011 Walter Huber Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
He was elected to become a Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) in 2015. He is a Section Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals such as Earthquake Spectra, and Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering.
Dr. Timon Rabczuk is Professor at Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany and Head of the Computational Mechanics Group at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. He has spent a 4-year stint in as a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Mechanics group of Professor Ted Belytschko at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA and for more than a year at the Technical University of Munich before he was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Canterbury University in New Zealand. In 2009, he joined Bauhaus University Weimar as Chaired Professor of Computational Mechanics and in 2014 he became the head of the Computational Mechanics Group at Ton Duc Thang University. Professor Rabczuk’s research is on the interface between computational science, engineering, mechanics, applied mathematics and material science. His most recent interest is machine learning based solutions of partial differential equations, nonlocal operator methods, two-dimensional materials and integrated computational material engineering.
Dr. Timon Rabczuk is Professor at Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany and Head of the Computational Mechanics Group at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. He has spent a 4-year stint in as a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Mechanics group of Professor Ted Belytschko at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA and for more than a year at the Technical University of Munich before he was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Canterbury University in New Zealand. In 2009, he joined Bauhaus University Weimar as Chaired Professor of Computational Mechanics and in 2014 he became the head of the Computational Mechanics Group at Ton Duc Thang University. Professor Rabczuk’s research is on the interface between computational science, engineering, mechanics, applied mathematics and material science. His most recent interest is machine learning based solutions of partial differential equations, nonlocal operator methods, two-dimensional materials and integrated computational material engineering.
Endel Iarve is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Institute of Predictive Performance Methodology at University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on discrete damage modeling methodologies for laminated composites under a broad range of loading conditions, including compression and fatigue. He also focuses on integrated computational materials science and engineering which brings together manufacturing and performance aspects of advanced composite materials.
Iarve received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at St. Petersburg University in Russia. He received his M.S. and B.S. at Latvian State University, Latvia. Iarve’s recent position was as a professor for the School of Engineering where he also held the title of distinguished research engineer and group leader for Advanced Composites-Analytics at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI).
Endel Iarve is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Institute of Predictive Performance Methodology at University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on discrete damage modeling methodologies for laminated composites under a broad range of loading conditions, including compression and fatigue. He also focuses on integrated computational materials science and engineering which brings together manufacturing and performance aspects of advanced composite materials.
Iarve received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at St. Petersburg University in Russia. He received his M.S. and B.S. at Latvian State University, Latvia. Iarve’s recent position was as a professor for the School of Engineering where he also held the title of distinguished research engineer and group leader for Advanced Composites-Analytics at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI).
He graduated from Azerbaijan State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1976. From 1976 to 1994, he had been working at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of National Academy of Science of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1994 he moved to Turkey and since then has been working as a Professor at Yildiz Technical University, Department of Mathematical Engineering before (2008) and Department of Mechanical Engineering (from 2008 until now), in Istanbul.
He has got Ph.D. degree (1981) and Doctor of Sciences degree (1988) in S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU. He was named Professor in 1992 and 2001 was elected Corresponding Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is co-author or author of many monographs (such as Akbarov S.D. and Guz A.N.” Mechanics of curved composites. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, 464p”; Akbarov S.D. “Stability loss and Buckling delamination: three-dimensional linearized approach for elastic and viscoelastic composites. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2013; 448p”, Akbarov S.D. “Dynamics of pre-strained bi-material elastic systems: linearized three-dimensional approach. Springer Cham Heidelberg New York, 2015, 1004p: Akbarov S.D., Kutug Z., Anwar M.Y. “Non-axisymmetric local Stability loss of a hollow cylinder: Three-dimensional stability loss in time-dependent composites. Springer, 2024; 121p)” and more than 400 scientific articles. His main scientific interest lies in the mechanics of composite materials and his study topics are mechanics of composite materials, fracture, stability of materials, crack problems, the stability loss problems, FEM, elastodynamics problems for the initially stressed systems, perturbation method. He is a member of the International Advisory Boards of many SCI journals such as “Mechanics of Composite Materials”, and was a member of the International Advisory Boards of the journals such as “International Applied Mechanics” and “TWMS Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics”.
He graduated from Azerbaijan State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1976. From 1976 to 1994, he had been working at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of National Academy of Science of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1994 he moved to Turkey and since then has been working as a Professor at Yildiz Technical University, Department of Mathematical Engineering before (2008) and Department of Mechanical Engineering (from 2008 until now), in Istanbul.
He has got Ph.D. degree (1981) and Doctor of Sciences degree (1988) in S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU. He was named Professor in 1992 and 2001 was elected Corresponding Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is co-author or author of many monographs (such as Akbarov S.D. and Guz A.N.” Mechanics of curved composites. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, 464p”; Akbarov S.D. “Stability loss and Buckling delamination: three-dimensional linearized approach for elastic and viscoelastic composites. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2013; 448p”, Akbarov S.D. “Dynamics of pre-strained bi-material elastic systems: linearized three-dimensional approach. Springer Cham Heidelberg New York, 2015, 1004p: Akbarov S.D., Kutug Z., Anwar M.Y. “Non-axisymmetric local Stability loss of a hollow cylinder: Three-dimensional stability loss in time-dependent composites. Springer, 2024; 121p)” and more than 400 scientific articles. His main scientific interest lies in the mechanics of composite materials and his study topics are mechanics of composite materials, fracture, stability of materials, crack problems, the stability loss problems, FEM, elastodynamics problems for the initially stressed systems, perturbation method. He is a member of the International Advisory Boards of many SCI journals such as “Mechanics of Composite Materials”, and was a member of the International Advisory Boards of the journals such as “International Applied Mechanics” and “TWMS Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics”.
Prof. Dr. Farman Mamedov is a distinguished mathematician specializing in Sobolev-Poincaré-type inequalities, fractional order inequalities, and variable exponent Hardy inequalities, with a particular focus on the boundedness and compactness of maximal operators in variable exponent spaces. His expertise extends to the qualitative theory of partial differential equations, including Harnack’s inequality, Hölder continuity, a priori estimates, regularity of solutions, removable singularities, and Green’s function estimates.
He holds the title of Professor of Mathematics and serves as a leading researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Mamedov earned his Doctor of Science degree in 2005 and became a professor at Dicle University in 2009. He also completed his Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Prof. Mamedov is an active member of the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including the Azerbaijan Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the Mathematics and Mechanics Institute, SOCAR Proceedings, Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics, and the Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics.
Prof. Dr. Farman Mamedov is a distinguished mathematician specializing in Sobolev-Poincaré-type inequalities, fractional order inequalities, and variable exponent Hardy inequalities, with a particular focus on the boundedness and compactness of maximal operators in variable exponent spaces. His expertise extends to the qualitative theory of partial differential equations, including Harnack’s inequality, Hölder continuity, a priori estimates, regularity of solutions, removable singularities, and Green’s function estimates.
He holds the title of Professor of Mathematics and serves as a leading researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Mamedov earned his Doctor of Science degree in 2005 and became a professor at Dicle University in 2009. He also completed his Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
Prof. Mamedov is an active member of the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including the Azerbaijan Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the Mathematics and Mechanics Institute, SOCAR Proceedings, Journal of Contemporary Applied Mathematics, and the Universal Journal of Applied Mathematics.