Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turan A. İ. (Yürütücü), Çelik A., Bulut H. A., Küçük M.
TÜBİTAK Projesi, 3501 - Ulusal Genç Araştırmacı Kariyer Geliştirme Programı, 2026 - 2028
With this project, the project manager will gain experience in many areas, including project management, budget management, risk management, scholarship coordination, and reporting of results, by executing a TÜBİTAK project for the first time in their academic career. Furthermore, sharing the project results in national and international publications will increase the project manager's academic recognition and contribute to the centralization of new business units. Increasing production volumes, which fuel many industries such as construction, industry, and IT, lead to both rapid natural depletion and a significant increase in waste volumes. The size and length of landfills used for disposal of construction debris generated in this sector, such as waste tires and electronic waste, pose significant sustainability challenges. Therefore, repurposing waste in its current form or through low-energy methods into production options is of great ecological and economic importance. For example, in the construction industry, structures that have reached the end of their service life or collapsed as a result of various natural disasters are structures resulting from the demolition of large amounts of construction. Indeed, the Pazarcık (Mw=7.7) and Elbistan (Mw=7.6) earthquakes that occurred on February 6, 2023, caused widespread construction collapses, leading to problems such as storage issues and air pollution. Solutions have been developed to improve the earthquake safety of masonry structures, a significant portion of the building stock, and we will place great importance on this to prevent losses of life and property. In the existing literature, expansions on masonry structures are generally subjected to various tests on samples produced with standard-rate mortars; alternative mortars are often limited to material-level testing, and studies of flexible payments are quite limited. This success will be achieved by obtaining masonry samples using alternative methods such as electronic waste, waste tires, recycled aggregate, and natural perlite aggregate, which can be produced more economically compared to traditional aggregates, as well as through mining processes, instead of the fine aggregate used in traditional cement-based mortars. Destructive and non-destructive tests and numerical analysis studies will be conducted on the produced mortars and masonry elements. Capillary water absorption, ultrasound transmission velocity, compression, and three-point bending tests, as well as SEM analyses, will be conducted on mortar samples. Shear tests will be conducted on triple-layered masonry elements, and in-plane and out-of-plane tests will be conducted on panel elements. Non-destructive measurement methods such as Digital Image Correlation (DIC) will also be utilized. Damage failure and structural behavior will be obtained by analyzing both the material and element levels. In the numerical analysis studies, models representing the graphical distribution and display properties of the produced samples will be developed, and the results obtained from these models will be correlated with the obtained data. The experimental results will contribute to the determination of the damage states of sustainable masonry structures and their use in the construction industry, serve as an example for field applications, and serve as a resource for R&D. The project team consists of a project manager working in the field of structural mechanics, two researchers working in structural mechanics and building materials, two graduate students, and one undergraduate student. The project is planned to be implemented within 24 months. The comprehensive and sustainable cost mixes to be developed within the scope of the project are expected to be of the same quality as original, non-commercialized products, and national and/or international patent procedures are aimed to protect these rights. It is anticipated that collaborations will be established to develop waste/alternative solutions from various sectors. Additionally, the project team's ability to share the knowledge, experience, and expertise gained from the current project with undergraduate and graduate level qualifications within the construction sector or other sectors will provide added value to the field. Furthermore, the projects are planned to be presented at national and international congresses and published in prestigious SCI journals. The proposed project is directly aligned with Turkey's 12th Development Plan's objectives of earthquake-resistant building production, domestic building materials production, energy efficiency, and research and development capacity.