Prof. AKKAR SINAN

Date of Birth: 04/07/1969

POSITION

  • Associate Professor, PhD
  • K7 Building – Office No. 102
  • Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara Turkey
  • Tel: + 90-312-210-7475
  • Fax: + 90-312-210-5401
  • Email: sakkar@meyu.edu.tr


EDUCATION

  • Middle East Technical University, BS in Civil Engineering, 1992
  • Middle East Technical University, MSc in Civil Engineering, 1995
  • Middle East Technical University, PhD in Civil Engineering, 2001


ACADEMIC HISTORY

  • 2001-2002, Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA
  • 2002-2003, Instructor, Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • 2003-2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • 2006-present, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • 2008-present, faculty member at the Rose School, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy


HONORS/KEYNOTE AND GUEST LECTURES/STATE-OF-THE-ART PRESENTATIONS

  • Keynote Lecturer in the 1st Euro-Mediterranean Accelerometric Data Exchange and Archiving Workshop, March 2008, Grenoble, France
  • Lecturer at the Rose School, University of Pavia, October 2008, Pavia, Italy
  • “Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Research Incentive Award” granted by Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation, 2007


PUBLICATIONS
Co-author of 18 journal papers covered by SCI Core/Expanded, 25 papers published in the international proceedings, 8 papers/chapters in the scientific books published by international publishers (e.g., Springer and Kluwer).
H-factor=8 (ISI Web of Knowledge). Selected Recent Publications:

  • Akkar, S. , Sucuoglu, H. and Yakut, A., 2005. “Displacement-based fragility functions for low- and mid-rise ordinary concrete buildings,” Earthquake Spectra , 21(4), 901-927.
  • Akkar, S. and Bommer, J.J., 2007. “Empirical prediction equations for peak ground velocity derived from strong-motion records from Europe and the Middle East,” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , Vol. 97(2), 511-530.
  • Akkar, S. and Bommer, J.J., 2007. “ Prediction of elastic displacement response spectra in Europe and the Middle East,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics , 36, 1275-1301 .
  • Akkar, S. and Metin, A., 2007. “Assessment of nonlinear static procedures in FEMA-440,” Journal of Structural Engineering , ASCE, 133(9), 1237-1246.
  • Bommer, J.J., Stafford, P., Alarcon, J. and Akkar, S., 2007. "The influence of magnitude range on empirical ground-motion prediction," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 97(6), 2152-2170.
  • Akkar, S. and Kucukdogan, B., 2008. "Direct use of PGV for estimating peak nonlinear oscillator displacements," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 37, 1411-1433.
  • Akkar, S. and Boore, D.M., 2009. " On baseline corrections and uncertainty in response spectra for baseline variations commonly encountered in digital accelerograph records," accepted for publication in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99(3).


OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES IN LAST FEW YEARS

  • Project Member in the “ATC-55, Evaluation and Improvement of Inelastic Seismic Analysis Procedures Phase II” under the direction of Applied Technology Council (ATC), 2002.
  • Principal Investigator in the “National Strong Ground Motion Project.” Funded by the Scientific Research and Technical Council of Turkey for 2005 - 2009 (3,500,000 USD for 4 years).
  • NATO Project Director in the “Harmonization of the Seismic Hazard Maps for the Western Balkan Countries.” Funded by the NATO Science for Peace Programme for 2007 - 2010 (638,000 Euro for 3 years)
  • Ground-motion predictive models for Europe (Task 2) team member in the “Seismic Harmonization in Europe (SHARE).” Funded by the European Community FP7 for 2009 - 2011 (3,700,000 Euro for 3 years).
  • Approval Authority in the Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project (ISMEP), 2008.
  • Served as reviewer and responsible editor for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Journal of Structural Engineering – ASCE, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Spectra, Journal of Seismology, Bulletin of the European Earthquake Engineerin