Portfolio · 10 projects

Selected work.

Aircraft structures are the day job: sizing, fatigue, joints and lightweight design; solid mechanics keeps the fundamentals sharp. Two threads, one discipline.

01 · aerospace

Aerospace

Stress analysis of metallic and composite aircraft primary structure: static and GFEM-based sizing, fatigue and damage-tolerance assessment, weight-reduction studies and structural optimisation.

Aerospace overview
  1. 01

    Fighter Jet — Method & Tool Development

    2025 — Present

    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.

    • Python
    • pyNastran
    • Surrogate Models
    • DaDT Methods
    • Automation
  2. 02

    Fighter Jet — Durability & Damage Tolerance

    2021 — Present

    DaDT substantiation of primary metallic and composite airframe structure on a next-generation fighter.

    • DaDT
    • GFEM
    • MSC Nastran
    • Slow Crack Growth
    • Composites
  3. 03

    Hürkuş Trainer — Certification Stress Analysis

    2018 — 2019

    Static, fatigue and stability substantiation of metallic and composite structures on the EASA CS-23 Hürkuş trainer.

    • EASA CS-23
    • MSC Nastran
    • Patran
    • Composites
    • Certification
  4. 04

    Landing Gear — Preliminary Stress Sizing

    2017 — 2018

    Preliminary FE model and initial stress sizing of a landing-gear assembly during pre-PDR layout.

    • Landing Gear
    • MSC Nastran
    • Hand Calcs
    • Preliminary Sizing
  5. 05

    e-VTOL — Conceptual Structural Sizing

    2019 — 2020

    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.

    • e-VTOL
    • Conceptual Design
    • Trade Studies

02 · solid mechanics

Solid Mechanics

Linear and non-linear stress analysis, topology optimisation and academic research in solid mechanics: composite laminates, bolted joints, buckling stability.

Solid Mechanics overview
  1. 01

    M.Sc. Thesis — Composite Rim Optimisation (MOGA-II)

    2018 — 2022

    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.

    • MOGA-II
    • CFRP
    • Composite Optimisation
    • MSC Nastran
    • HyperMesh
    • Lightweight Design
  2. 02

    Topology Optimisation of an Aircraft Bracket

    2021

    Density-based topology optimisation of a metallic bracket with manufacturing constraints, followed by detail re-meshing and non-linear FE re-validation.

    • Topology Optimisation
    • Abaqus
    • Non-linear FEA
  3. 03

    Non-linear FEA of Bolted Joints

    2020

    Contact-based non-linear FE study on load transfer through metallic bolted joints. Compares bearing-bypass distribution against classical hand-calc methods and lookup data.

    • Abaqus
    • Contact
    • Bolted Joints
    • Hand Calcs
  4. 04

    Composite Plate Buckling Study

    2019

    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.

    • Composites
    • Buckling
    • Stiffened Panels
  5. 05

    B.Sc. Thesis — Curvic Coupling Parameter Study

    2017

    Parametric FE study on the behaviour of a gas-turbine-engine curvic coupling under various loads.

    • Gas Turbine
    • Curvic Coupling
    • Contact
    • FEA