Department of
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty

Dr. Fahrettin Ozturk Associate Professor Office: Umm Shaif Building, Room 4123 Phone: +971 2 607 5197 Fax: +971 2 607 5200

Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2002

Dr. Fahrettin Ozturk joined the Petroleum Institute (PI) as an Associate Professor. He received his B.S. in 1992 with the highest grades among the graduates in Mechanical Engineering from Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey and his M.S. in 1996 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Dr. Ozturk received his Ph.D. in 2002 in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. He worked part-time for General Electric Research Center for three years. He taught several courses in RPI. Before joining the PI, he was working as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department of Nigde University in Turkey.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Ranked first among the graduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, 1992.
• Awarded a scholarship by the Turkish Higher Education Council to perform graduate studies (M.S., and Ph.D.) in the USA, 2003.
• Awarded In Recognition of achievement and personal development in student leadership at Rensselaer by The Boeing Company and The Archer Center for Student Leadership Development, 1998.
• Ranked third in 2010 SCI publications in Nigde University, 2010.
• Most Downloaded Articles Award of Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2010.

PROFESIONAL SERVICE

• Member, Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (UCTEA), The Chamber of Mechanical Engineers.

EXPERTISE

• Mechanical Properties of Materials, Formability of Sheet Metals, Warm and Hot Forming of Metals, Lightweight Materials, Finite Element Simulations, and Machine Design.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Serkan Toros, Fahrettin Ozturk, Flow curve prediction of Al-Mg alloys under warm forming conditions at various strain rates by ANN, Appl Soft Comput, 11 (2), 1891-1898, 2011.
  
  
• Fahrettin Ozturk, Hakan Pekel, Huseyin S. Halkaci, The Effect of Strain Rate Sensitivity on Formability of AA 5754-O at Cold and Warm Temperatures, J Mater Eng Perform, 20 (1), 77-81, 2011.
  
  
• Catalin R. Picu, Fahrettin Ozturk, E. Esener, Renge Li, Aluminum Alloys with Identical Plastic Flow and Different Strain Rate Sensitivity, Metall Mater Trans A, 41A (13), 3358-3364, 2010.
  
  
• Fahrettin Ozturk, Remzi Ecmel Ece, Naki Polat, Arif Koksal, Effects of Warm Temperature on Springback Compensation of Titanium Sheet, Mater Manuf Process, 25 (9), 1021-1024, 2010.
  
  
• F. Ozturk, S. Toros, S. Kilic, Tensile Deformation Behavior of AA5083-H111 at Cold and Warm Temperatures, Int. J. Mat. Res. (formerly Z. Metallkd.) 101 (9), 1172-1179, 2010.
  
  
• Serkan Toros, Fahrettin Ozturk, Modeling Uniaxial, Temperature and Strain Rate Dependent Behavior of Al-Mg Alloys, Comp Mater Sci. 49 (2), 333-339, 2010.
  
  
• F. Ozturk, E. Esener, S. Toros, R.C. Picu, Effects of Aging Parameters on Formability of 6061-O Alloy, Mater Design 31 (10), 4847-4852, 2010.
  
  
• F. Ozturk, A. Sisman, S. Toros, S. Kilic, R.C. Picu, Influence of Aging Treatment on Mechanical Properties of 6061 Aluminum Alloy, Mater Design, 31 (2), 972-975, 2010.
  
  
• Fahrettin Ozturk, Serkan Toros, Suleyman Kilic, Tensile and Springback Behavior of DP600 Advanced High Strength Steel at Warm Temperatures, J Iron Steel Res Int, 16(6) 41-46, 2009.
  
  
• F. Ozturk, S. Toros, H. Pekel, Evaluation of Tensile Behavior of 5754 Aluminum-Magnesium Alloy at Cold and Warm Temperature, Mater Sci Tech-Lond, 25 (7), 919-924, 2009.