Oguzhan Bayrak, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Phone: (512) 232-7826
E-mail: bayrak@mail.utexas.edu
Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil Engineering Department-STR
1 University Station C1748
Austin, TX 78712-0275

Area(s) of Expertise:

Structural Engineering

Vita:

Ph.D., University of Toronto, Civil Engineering/Structures 1999
M.A.Sc., University of Toronto, Civil Engineering/Structures 1995
B.Sc., Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Civil Engineering, 1992

Technical Interests:

Behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, earthquake engineering, evaluation of structures in distress, use of fiber reinforced polymers for corrosion repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete.

Selected Publications:

Bayrak, O., Sheikh, S.A., “High Strength Concrete Columns under Simulated Earthquake Loading”, ACI Structural Journal, Vol.94, No.6, November-December 1997, pp. 708-722

Bayrak, O. and Sheikh, S.A., “Confinement Reinforcement Design Considerations for Ductile HSC Columns”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.124, No.9, September 1998, pp. 999-1010

Bayrak O., Sheikh S.A., “Earthquake Resistance of 100 MPa Concrete Columns“, Special Publication on High Strength Concrete, ASCE, ISBN: 0784404194 April 1999, pp. 122-135

Bayrak, O. and Sheikh, S.A., “Plastic Hinge Analysis,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127 No.9, September 2001, pp. 1092-1100

Bayrak, O., “The Effect of Wave Passage on the Seismic Response of Long Bridges”, Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN’96, Florence, Italy, June 5-8 1996, published by A. A. Balkema, ISBN: 90 5410 813 4, pp.157-163