# Berkay Kuşkıra

> Lead Structural Analysis Engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries. 9+ years of stress analysis on metallic and composite aircraft primary structure: static strength and stability, fatigue and damage tolerance, composite and lightweight design, GFEM-based sizing and structural optimisation.

Berkay Kuşkıra is also written Berkay Kuskira. kuskira.com is Berkay Kuşkıra's personal site: the CV, a project portfolio and a small 3D town built around the same CV. Based in Ankara, Turkey.

Experience:

- Method & Tool Development Engineer, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Ankara, Turkey: Oct 2025 to Present, concurrent
- Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Ankara, Turkey: Aug 2021 to Present
- Structural Analysis Engineer, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Istanbul, Turkey: Sep 2017 to Aug 2021
- Project Student & Intern, TEI, TUSAŞ Engine Industries, Eskişehir, Turkey: Jul 2016 to Jun 2017

Education:

- M.Sc. in Solid Mechanics, Istanbul Technical University: Feb 2018 to Jul 2022
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Specialty: Structure, Yıldız Technical University: 2012 to 2017
- Erasmus+ Exchange, Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology: 2015 to 2016

Expertise: Static strength & stability, Fatigue & damage tolerance, Composite & lightweight design, GFEM sizing & sub-modelling, Joints & detail substantiation, FE–test correlation, Structural optimisation, Python analysis tooling.

Analysis tools: MSC Nastran, Abaqus, ANSYS Mechanical, MSC Patran, Altair HyperMesh, CATIA V5; Python (pyNastran, NumPy, SciPy).

Languages: Turkish, native; English, professional working proficiency (C1).

## Pages

- [About](https://kuskira.com/home/): profile, focus areas and headline figures
- [Resume](https://kuskira.com/resume/): experience, skills, education and selected reading
- [Portfolio](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/): aerospace and solid-mechanics projects, one page each
- [CV (PDF)](https://kuskira.com/cv-berkay-kuskira.pdf): the printable CV
- [Contact](https://kuskira.com/contact/): email, LinkedIn and a contact form
- [Full text](https://kuskira.com/llms-full.txt): the whole CV and portfolio in one Markdown file

## Projects

- [Fighter Jet, Method & Tool Development](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/aerospace/fighter-jet-method-and-tool-development/): Turning the Durability & Damage Tolerance methodology of the fighter-jet programme into validated, automated engineering tools, so that methods analysts run by hand become repeatable software. (2025 to Present)
- [Fighter Jet, Durability & Damage Tolerance](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/aerospace/fighter-jet-durability-and-damage-tolerance/): DaDT substantiation of primary metallic and composite airframe structure on a next-generation fighter. (2021 to Present)
- [Hürkuş Trainer, Certification Stress Analysis](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/aerospace/hurkus-trainer-certification-stress-analysis/): Static, fatigue and stability substantiation of metallic and composite structures on the EASA CS-23 Hürkuş trainer. (2018 to 2019)
- [Landing Gear, Preliminary Stress Sizing](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/aerospace/landing-gear-preliminary-stress-sizing/): Preliminary FE model and initial stress sizing of a landing-gear assembly during pre-PDR layout. (2017 to 2018)
- [e-VTOL, Conceptual Structural Sizing](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/aerospace/e-vtol-conceptual-structural-sizing/): Conceptual structural sizing of an e-VTOL military cargo platform: load-path layout, primary-mass estimation and material down-selection feeding the platform feasibility gate. (2019 to 2020)
- [M.Sc. Thesis, Composite Rim Optimisation (MOGA-II)](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/solid-mechanics/m-sc-thesis-composite-rim-optimisation-moga-ii/): M.Sc. thesis at Istanbul Technical University (2022). Lightweight design of a 19-inch, 8.5-inch-wide ten-spoke automotive rim in plain-weave CFRP prepreg. (2018 to 2022)
- [Topology Optimisation of an Aircraft Bracket](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/solid-mechanics/topology-optimisation-of-an-aircraft-bracket/): Density-based topology optimisation of a metallic bracket with manufacturing constraints, followed by detail re-meshing and non-linear FE re-validation. (2021)
- [Non-linear FEA of Bolted Joints](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/solid-mechanics/non-linear-fea-of-bolted-joints/): Contact-based non-linear FE study on load transfer through metallic bolted joints. (2020)
- [Composite Plate Buckling Study](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/solid-mechanics/composite-plate-buckling-study/): Linear eigenvalue and non-linear post-buckling analyses of stiffened composite panels across lay-ups and boundary conditions, used to calibrate hand-calc panel-buckling workbooks. (2019)
- [B.Sc. Thesis, Curvic Coupling Parameter Study](https://kuskira.com/portfolio/solid-mechanics/b-sc-thesis-curvic-coupling-parameter-study/): Parametric FE study on the behaviour of a gas-turbine-engine curvic coupling under various loads. (2017)

## Publications

- [Optimization of CFRP Prepreg Composite Rim by Using MOGA-II Genetic Algorithm](https://polen.itu.edu.tr/items/ab3e8f71-abd2-401e-ba04-92cbf004a5e9): M.Sc. thesis, Istanbul Technical University, 2022, open access (handle hdl.handle.net/11527/25166)

## Contact

- Email: berkaykuskira@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkaykuskira/
- Website: https://kuskira.com/

## Optional

- [Kuşkıra City](https://kuskira.com/world/): the same CV as a small 3D town to drive, walk and fly through