Erdem Acar

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Turkey

Professor Engineering
Biography

Dr. Erdem Acar, had gained his PhD. from The University of Florida (USA) in Aeronautical Engineering (2006). He had been working as Post-Doctoral Researcher at Mississippi State University (USA).

Research Intrest

Design optimization under uncertainty, Surrogate modeling, Structural design, Life Estimation, Fracture, Fatigue.

List of Publications
Acar, E., & Haftka, R. T. (2007). Reliability-based aircraft structural design pays, even with limited statistical data. Journal of Aircraft, 44(3), 812-823.
Rais-Rohani, M., Solanki, K. N., Acar, E., & Eamon, C. D. (2010). Shape and sizing optimisation of automotive structures with deterministic and probabilistic design constraints. International journal of vehicle design, 54(4), 309-338.
Kumar, S., Pippy, R. J., Acar, E., Kim, N. H., & Haftka, R. T. (2009). Approximate probabilistic optimization using exact-capacity-approximate-response-distribution (ECARD). Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 38(6), 613-626.
An, J., Acar, E., Haftka, R. T., Kim, N. H., Ifju, P. G., & Johnson, T. F. (2008). Being conservative with a limited number of test results. Journal of Aircraft, 45(6), 1969.
Acar, E., Kale, A., Haftka, R. T., & Stroud, W. J. (2006). Structural safety measures for airplanes. Journal of Aircraft, 43(1), 30-38.
Acar, E., Haftka, R. T., & Kim, N. H. (2010). Effects of structural tests on aircraft safety. AIAA J, 48(10), 2235-2248.
Acar, E., & Solanki, K. (2009). System reliability based vehicle design for crashworthiness and effects of various uncertainty reduction measures. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 39(3), 311-325.
Acar, E., & Solanki, K. (2009). Improving the accuracy of vehicle crashworthiness response predictions using an ensemble of metamodels. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 14(1), 49-61.
Acar, E. (2010). Various approaches for constructing an ensemble of metamodels using local measures. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 42(6), 879-896.
Acar, E., & Rais-Rohani, M. (2009). Ensemble of metamodels with optimized weight factors. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 37(3), 279-294.

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