Atıl Erdik, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Research Interests:• Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for CAE & Product Validation• Digital Thread & Digital Twin• Quantum Computing• Product Optimization & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)• Advanced Project Management• Change & Transformation Leadership• Effective Time Management Techniques• Self-Disciplined Development Approaches• Strategic People Management• Evaluating and supervising Finite Element Applications of military vehicles and commercial busses subsystem components.• Vehicle durability simulations. • Vehicle Dynamics (Multi Body Dynamics) studies for tracked and wheeled armored vehicles and commercial buses, minibuses.• Fundamentals of system engineering and 1-D system simulations.• Structureborne NVH issues on vehicles.• Vibration and shock analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-810H.• Static and dynamic mechanical behaviors of materials (through CAE tools).• Dynamic response and constitutive modeling of materials.• Computational and experimental mechanics and composite armor mechanics.• Structural optimization• Material characterization for metallic materials & Behavior of materials at intermediate/high rates of strain.• Design of lightweight impact mitigating systems.• Energy absorbing performances of advanced lightweight materials such as honeycombs, aluminum foams, crushable materials, composites, and sandwich structures, etc.• Landmine and IED blast & Ballistic impact simulations using LS-DYNA hydrocode.• Impact dynamics.• Anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) in blast and crashworthiness applications.• Frontal crash simulations (ECE-R29).• Rollover simulations (ECE-R66).• Joining techniques (Welds, bolts, etc.) in finite element applications.Specialist in the following finite element tools:LS-DYNA, ANSA, Abaqus, Hypermesh, ANSYS, AUTODYN