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Serdar Selamet is holding Associate Professor position at Bogazici University since November 2012. He has received his Undergraduate degree from Duke University , Masters and Doctorate degrees from Princeton University in the United States. His main research interests include fire engineering from structural fire design, heat transfer and fire growth to egress. He is also interested in traditional and cold formed steel design in seismically active regions. He holds technical committee memberships in fire engineering in Turkey, Europe and the U.S. and actively participates in international conferences and symposiums.

Mustapha Muazu Jodi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at Boğaziçi University. He received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Gaziantep University in 2017 and a master’s degree from Boğaziçi University in 2019. His research interests include the resilience of cities against hazards such as fire and earthquake. His master’s thesis focused on developing egress models for high-rise buildings under a fire risk analysis framework. He is currently working on mapping the fire vulnerability of Istanbul high-rise residential buildings on a city-wide scale.

Uğur has graduated from Civil Engineering Department of Istanbul Kültür University in 2009. He received his MSc degree from Boğaziçi University in 2012 with a thesis focusing on structural fire performance of floor beams. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Boğaziçi University with a research proposal titled "Fire Risk Assessment of High Rise Residential Buildings in Turkey", which was part of a Newton Collaborative Research Programme completed in 2017. The program deals with several fire design performance in high-rise structures including smoke spread, combustion toxicity, fire spread and occupant egress. These studies will be conducted on various building types in Istanbul building inventory obtained from Istanbul Municipality.

Hava has graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 2019. Currently, she is a Masters degree student at Bogazici University. Her thesis focuses on collapse risks of mid rise and high rise buildings with eccentrically and concentrically braced frames designed according to Turkish Seismic Code under earthquake loading.

Aykut has developed an app in matlab which gives heat release rate curve of the furniture items inside dwellings. This application also combines the heat release rate curves of the furniture items resulting in the heat release rate curve of the compartment. He is currently working on improving the accuracy of the curve with adding the fire spread time and more heat release rate data for different furniture items. He is also working on FDS studies to understand how heat flux is affected by different parameters such as distance, ventilation factor, peak heat release rate and fire area. This will help to estimate the fire spread time in dwelling rooms, which will also assist in egress work. Finally, he is suggesting a practical method to calculate fire load in dwellings using the volume and material properties of the items to create a fire risk map of Istanbul.

Burak Ayva has received BSc. degree in mechanical engineering from Bogazici University, in 2018. He also holds a MSc. Degree in Structural Engineering from Bogazici University. His reseach title was “Performance-Based Fire Safety Design for Automated Vehicle Parking Structures”. He worked in education industry as a civil engineering research and teaching assistant between 2018 and 2020. Burak is currently working as a consultant engineer in Australia, and supporting computational research activities of BOUN Fire Research Group.

Damage to passive fire protection systems such as fire-rated doors by seismic excitations prior to a fire event can be a critical threat in terms of the fire safety of the occupants and building property in densely populated tall buildings. Seismic cracks on corners and joints or lateral distortions in a fire door assembly can cause gaps between the door leaf and its frame, resulting in the incapability of impeding the spread of smoke and flame. The reliability of the remaining fire resistance of fire doors for the potential fires occurring after a period from the seismic activity is difficult to evaluate since their potentially reduced performance levels are not currently quantified in design codes. Muhammet is currently endeavoring to construct a seminal numerical fire door model to simulate earthquake and fire tests subsequently for validating the experimental results. He will then apply the outputs to establish a framework for repair and replacement criteria for earthquake-damaged fire doors, and to contribute to the next-generation design codes.

İsmail Baş focused on developing the graphical interface and code development of the finite element software FEHEAT which solves transient heat transfer problems involving radiation and temperature dependent material properties.

Currently Alperen is working on the thermo-mechanical response of a steel beam subjected to standard fire under different boundary conditions which are fixed-fixed, pin-pin and pin-roller. To analyse these cases, Alperen is using OpenSees. As Alperen writes and runs a code for each case, he also records the data in Excel and visualize the key parameters such as mid-span moment. Another topic that he is working on, is modelling a beam of a steel frame building system and performing its thermo-mechanical analysis with OpenSees. Also, he prepares an isolated beam model which has rotational and translational springs at its ends to correspond the original beam’s conditions.

Ahmet Fazıl has graduated from Yildiz Technical University in 2007. He worked for several industrial contstruction projects. He has started to Master's program in the Civil Engineering Department in 2014. He is currently working for Turkish Standards Institution-TSE Construction Laboratory in Tuzla/İstanbul. He is in charge of fire resistance tests and fire classification of construction products and building elements in TSE. His research topic is conducting fire experiments at TSE for validation of heat transfer by radiation under ISO fire curve. Ahmet has successfully defended his MSc.

Kadir has graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Civil Engineering Department in 2012. His research title was "The Types of Connection Damages of Prefabricated Systems During Eartquakes and Pushover Analysis". He has started his Master’s program at Bogazici University in 2012. He received his MSc degree in May 2015 with thesis titled "The Effect of Semi-Rigid Connections to Seismic Behaviour of High Rise Buildings" (can be found here ). He got accepted to the PhD program at Bogazici University and will continue to develop fire performance analyses techniques of large scale infrastructures.

Fırat Yolaçan has graduated from Middle East Technical University of Civil Engineering Department (2014)ç He worked in the steel design industry for several years before applying for a MSc degree at Bogazici University. His current research is "Risk Assessment of Large-scale Structures in Istanbul Against Fire Hazard" and he was part of the reliability team established at BOUNFIRE Research Group. After a year pursuing a PhD degree at our Department, he got acceptance from University of Luxemburg Research Unit in Engineering and Sciences.

Kerem has graduated from Yeditepe University in 2014. His research presented the results of a series of experimental tests of the tensile properties of parallel wire strand with steel sockets at elevated temperature and the residual properties after cooling when held at constant stress (pre-loaded) level and subjected to hydrocarbon fires. Kerem has successfully defended his MSc.

Caner Bölükbaş attained his undergraduate degree from Bogazici University from the Department of Civil Engineering with Structures emphasis in 2013. He is currently a Masters degree student focusing on the fire experiment on a composite floor structure, which is part of Marie Curie Internatinal Incoming Fellowship Program. The fire experiment was conducted in Fall 2015.

Ecem has graduated from Istanbul Technical University of Civil Engineering Department in 2014; currently, she is a Masters degree student at Boğaziçi University. Her graduation project title was “Applications of RFID Technology in Construction Sector”. Her current research topic was “Risk Assessment of Large-scale Structures in İstanbul Against Fire Hazard” and she was part of the reliability team established at BOUNFIRE Research Group.

Mübin graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with high honors in 2015. Buildings are composed of structural and non-structural components. Generally, load bearing structural elements such as beams, columns, slabs and shear walls are designed for earthquake. Earthquake effects on fire related non-structural components such as compartment walls, elevators, fire doors and stairs are not designed for a good performance against earthquake. Mübin will estimate the damage of these components after moderate earthquake using Matlab, Sap2000 and Perform 3D.

Baturay Özgürün has received BSc. degree as a top scoring student in electronics engineering from Uludağ University, in 2012. He holds a MSc. degree from Boğaziçi University, Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department and currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Sabancı University, Molecular Biology Department. His main research interests are FPGA, embedded systems, signal processing and photonics. He was the head developer for FEHEAT Finite Element Program and its user graphical interface (GUI).

Tuğba has graduated from Istanbul University of Civil Engineering Department in 2011. Her senior design project was “The Modeling of Steel Roof in an Indoor Sports Hall”. In 2011, she started to Master’s program at Boğaziçi University in the Civil Engineering Department and her current thesis subject is “Steel Connections on Composite Floor Systems under the Fire”.

Sena was 4. year Undergraduate student majoring in Civil Engineering and minoring Industrial Engineering. She assisted with several consulting jobs related to structural fire safety.

Sofi Farazande was a Senior student who worked on developing occupant egress lecture notes for CE549 Structural Fire Safety.

Murat was a Senior undergraduate at Bogazici University, majoring in Physics and Civil Engineering. In 2013, he conducted undergraduate research at UCLA, CA. He is the Webmaster for this site. Murat helped to develop some modules in FEHEAT finite element code. He is currently a graduate student at MIT.

Özgün was a 3. Year undergraduate student at Boğazici University and contributed to the literature search on the World Trade Center Collapse.

Aybike has graduated from Bogazici University in 2014. She was responsible for the creation of structural engineering word definition database with Turkish translation. This project is commissioned by TUBA - Turkish Academy of Sciences.