Dr. Murat Serdar KIRÇIL
  

    YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Department of Civil Engineering

    Davutpasa Campus, 34210, Esenler/ISTANBUL

    Phone: +90-212-383 52 04

    Fax:

    kircil@yildiz.edu.tr  

TÜRKÇE 

EDUCATION

  • B.Sc: 1990-1994 YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

  • M.Sc: 1995-1998 YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

  • Ph.D: 1998- 2005 YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

 

ACADEMIC

  • 1995 Research Assistant, YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Department of Civil Engineering

  • 2006 Assistant Professor, YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Department of Civil Engineering
 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • Member of executive committee, Chamber of Civil Engineers/Istanbul section, 1998-2000

  • Member of organising committee, "Turkish-Greek twin workshop on retrofitting of structures", Athens/Istanbul, 2001

  • Member of organising committee, "6th National conference on earthquake engineering", Athens/Istanbul, 2007

  • Vice-chair, YTU Department of Civil Engineering, 2007-2008
 

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Turkish National Committee for Earthquake Engineering

  • Chamber of Civil Engineers
 

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Earthquake resistant design of structures

  • Performance based design

  • Earthquake engineering
 

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Reinforced Concrete 1 (Undergraduate)

  • Reinforced Concrete Bridges (Undergraduate)

  • Desing of Reinforced Concrete Structures (Undergraduate)
 

PROJECTS

  • Aydınoglu, M. N., Polat, Z., Celep, U., Kırçıl, M.S., Hancıoglu, B., "Investigation and Evaluation of Earthquake Safety of Buildings", Earthquake Master Plan for İstanbul, July,2003, Istanbul (in Turkish)

  • Aydınoglu, M. N., Polat, Z., Celep, U., Kırçıl, M.S., Hancıoglu, B.,  "Retrofitting of buildings", Earthquake Master Plan for İstanbul, July,2003, Istanbul (in Turkish)
 

PUBLICATIONS

  • HANCIOĞLU, B., POLAT, Z., KIRÇIL, M.S., Estimation of Characteristic Period for Energy Based Seismic Design, The 2008 Seismic Engineering International Conference commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake (MERCEA'08), Reggio Calabria & Messina / Italy, July 2008.

  • KIRÇIL, M.S., POLAT, Z., "Fragility Analysis of Mid-Rise R/C Frame Buildings", Engineering Structures, 2006, 28(9):1335-1345.

  • HANCIOĞLU, B., AYDEMİR, C., KIRÇIL, M.S., An Analytical Investigation on Performance Evaluation of R/C Columns, Proc. of 7th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Istanbul, October 2006 (in Turkish)

  • AYDEMİR, C., KIRÇIL, M.S., ESER, M., ZORBOZAN, M., A Critical Review of Code Provisions for Estimation of Probable Flexural Strength of R/C Beams, Proc. of 1st Europen Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology, Geneva/Switzerland, September 2006.

  • KIRÇIL, M.S., HANCIOGLU, B., "Fragility Analysis of R/C Frames on Firm Sites", Proc. of 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco/USA, April 2006.

  • KIRÇIL, M.S., HANCIOGLU, B., POLAT, Z., "Seismic Rehabilitation: A Case Study", Proc. of International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting, Cape Town/South Africa, November 2005.

  • KIRÇIL, M.S., HANCIOGLU, B., DOYRANLI, B., "Performance evaluation of a retrofitted building with post-tensioned  frames by nonlinear static analysis", Proc. of 6th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Istanbul, October 2004 (in Turkish)

  • KIRÇIL, M.S., HANCIOGLU, B., POLAT, Z., "Performance evaluation of a conventionally retrofitted building by nonlinear static analysis", Proc. of 5th Turkish National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, May 2003 (in Turkish)