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Experience
Lead Structural Analysis Engineer TAIsince 2017 (9+ years)Ankara
Lead Structural Analysis Engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), working on metallic and composite aircraft primary structure since 2017 (9+ years). The work covers the whole stress discipline: static strength and stability, fatigue and damage tolerance, composite and lightweight design, GFEM-based sizing and structural optimisation. Currently leads the durability and damage tolerance (DaDT) work package on a fighter-jet programme and, since late 2025, analysis method and tool development in the stress group. Earlier work covers EASA CS-23 certification stress analysis on the Hürkuş trainer (forward fuselage, and the rudder weight-reduction study), GFEM-based sizing of fighter primary structure, and preliminary landing-gear and eVTOL structural studies. Day to day that means stress reports taken through release, sizing and weight trade studies, crack-growth and fail-safe assessments, and non-conformance dispositions agreed with the loads, design and test teams.
- 9+Years in aerospace stress
- 4Aircraft programmes
- 10Projects & method studies
- M.Sc.Solid Mechanics · ITU
- Static strength & stability
- Fatigue & damage tolerance
- Composite & lightweight design
- GFEM sizing & sub-modelling
- Joints & detail substantiation
- FE–test correlation
- Structural optimisation
- Python analysis tooling
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Method & Tool Development Engineer
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Ankara, Turkey
- Develop internal tools that automate repetitive stress-analysis work for the stress group.
- Build surrogate models of expensive FE evaluations for rapid sizing trades and design-space exploration.
- Write automated FE post-processing pipelines (pyNastran, Abaqus and Femap scripting) that turn raw results into margin-of-safety tables and report figures.
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- Standardise hand-calc workbooks and stress-report templates for reuse across programmes, with version control and input/output checks.
- Work with analysts and IT to turn recurring analysis problems into tools that are actually deployed and maintained.
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Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Ankara, Turkey
- Lead the Durability & Damage Tolerance (DaDT) work package on primary metallic and composite airframe structure of a next-generation fighter platform.
- Own the DaDT analysis chain: GFEM internal-load extraction, detailed sub-models, fatigue spectrum application, crack-growth assessment and inspection-interval setting.
- Write and release DaDT stress reports for fracture-critical and durability-critical parts under formal revision control and design-office sign-off.
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- Substantiate joints, cut-outs, fillets, fastener load transfer and other stress concentrations with detailed FE models and classical hand calculations.
- Derive DaDT allowables for multiple material and configuration cases and feed them into the GFEM-based global sizing loop.
- Run primary-structure trade studies on stock size, alloy selection and section topology against weight and DaDT targets.
- Drive design changes that retire fatigue hot-spots without breaking the mass budget.
- Disposition structural non-conformances on produced parts: repair schemes, life-impact assessments and concessions.
- Mentor junior stress engineers on hand-calc and FE workflow, fatigue methodology and report standards.
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Structural Analysis Engineer
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) · Istanbul, Turkey
- Hürkuş trainer: substantiated metallic and composite primary structure on the Hürkuş-B forward fuselage and Hürkuş-C rudder against EASA CS-23 requirements.
- Hürkuş-B: wrote the forward-fuselage certification stress report and closed authority and internal review comments through release.
- Hürkuş-C: led the rudder weight-reduction study (composite lay-up resizing and hinge re-design) while keeping reserve-factor compliance.
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- eVTOL cargo concept: conceptual structural sizing (load-path layout, primary-mass estimation, material down-selection) for a military cargo platform.
- Re-engineered structural attachments and routing supports for hydraulic and fuel-system upgrades without invalidating the original type-design substantiation.
- Landing gear: built the first analysis-grade landing-gear FE model and sized strut and trunnion fittings against drop and braking load cases.
- Correlated FE results with coupon and element-level test data and resolved analysis-vs-test discrepancies inside the certification report chain.
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Project Student & Intern
TEI — TUSAŞ Engine Industries · Eskişehir, Turkey
- B.Sc. thesis research on a gas-turbine curvic coupling: parametric FE study of tooth-flank stress and contact pressure under various load cases.
- Summer internship (2016) with the engine stress and design teams.