Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Research Funding
Publications
Professional Associations

Dr Togay Ozbakkaloglu

Telephone	+61 8 8313 6477
Position	Senior Lecturer
Email	tozbakka@civeng.adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4359
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Qualifications

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Department of Civil Engineering
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, December 2005
Thesis: "Seismic Performance of High-Strength Concrete Columns in FRP Stay-in-Place Formwork"

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Civil Engineering
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, June 1998

Scholarships and Fellowships

2005-2007 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) (Declined)

2004-2005 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship

2004-2005 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

2002-2004 University of Ottawa National Excellence Scholarship

2002-2004 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-B)

2002-2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (Declined in lieu of NSERC PGS-B)

2001-2002 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship

2001-2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)

2000-2001 University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship

Awards & Achievements

2006 Ph.D. thesis nominated for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Prize

2005 Ph.D. thesis nominated for University of Ottawa's Best Thesis Award

2005 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Award of Excellence

1998 Dean's Office, Superior Performance Award

1998 YTONG Industry, Superior Performance Award

1998 ITU Civil Engineering Faculty 1961 Alumni's Award

1998 ISKI General Head Office Award

1998 Izzettin Silier Distinguished Student Award

Teaching Interests

Courses Taught

School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide

Prestressed Concrete Structures (Postgraduate level)

Advanced Reinforced Concrete (4th year and Postgraduate level)

Design of Concrete Structures (4th year)

Structural Mechanics (3rd year)

Structural Design II (2nd year)

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa

Theory of Structures II (4th year)

Reinforced Concrete Design I (3rd year)

Theory of Structures I (3rd year)

Mechanics of Materials I (2nd year)

Research Interests

Behaviour, design, and retrofit of earthquake-resistant concrete structures
Behaviour and design of FRP reinforced concrete structural members
Confinement of normal- and high-strength concrete columns by FRP composites
Use of concrete-filled FRP tubes as earthquake-resistant columns for new construction
Repair and strengthening of concrete and masonry structures with advanced composite materials
Behaviour and design of high-strength concrete members
Use of fibre optic sensors for structural health monitoring
Inelastic dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete structures for seismic investigation
Blast resistant design of reinforced concrete structures

Postgraduate Students

Jian Chin Lim (PhD)	2008-present	Jointly supervised with Prof Oehlers
Wade Lucas (PhD)	2007-present	Jointly supervised with Prof Oehlers
Jaya Kashyap (MEngSc)	2007-present	Jointly supervised with A/Prof Griffith
Tom Vincent (MEng.Sc)	2006-present	Jointly supervised with Dr Kaggwa
Handoko Putra (MEngSc)	2006-present	Jointly supervised with Dr Ngothai
Jerry Vaculik (PhD)	2004-present	Jointly supervised with A/Prof Griffith

Research Funding

Research Grants

Year	Amount	Source	Project
2007	$18,500	University of Adelaide	Behaviour of Concrete-filled FRP Tubes
2006	$10,000	University of Adelaide	Confinement of Concrete Columns by FRP composites

Journal Review

Journal of Composites for Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
ACI Structural Journal, American Concrete Institute
ACI Materials Journal, American Concrete Institute
Engineering Structures
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (CJCE), National Research Council Canada
Advances in Structural Engineering - An International Journal
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management - An International Journal
Refereed Paper Journal, Concrete Institute of Australia

Reviewer for Conference

9th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (9CCEE), Ottawa, Canada, June 2007
The First Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS), Hong Kong, December 2007

Member of Conference Organising Committees

9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-9), Sydney, Australia, September 2009
The 8th International Conference on Shock & Impact Loads on Structures, Adelaide, Australia, December 2009

Member of Conference International Scientific Committees

9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-9), Sydney, Australia, September 2009

Supervision of Fourth Year Research Projects

Title	Year	Students
Behaviour of concrete under tri-axial compression	2008	Kulbac, Mader, Wallent, Whiting
Design and manufacture of next generation composite columns	2008	Ames, Evans, Kocman, Kretschmer
Seismic strengthening of brick masonry walls for flexure	2008	Hosking, Luong, Nakamura, Szuster
FRP-confined high-strength concrete under cyclic compression	2007	Miller, Rohlarch, Staak, Verma
Confinement effectiveness of rectangular concrete-filled FRP tubes	2007	Haigh, Kohler, Richter, Sadri
Cyclic bond behaviour of FRP strengthened masonry	2007	Cheng, Eriksen, Lau, White
Seismic performance of RC frames in Australia	2006	Chong, Fung, Holloway
FRP-confined concrete	2006	Chew, Lim, Loke, Ng
FRP-confined high-strength concrete	2006	Haw, Chan, Puan

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

Daniell, J.E., Oehlers, D.J., Griffith, M.C., Mohamed Ali, M.S. and Ozbakkaloglu, T., (provisionally accepted 2008) "The softening rotation of reinforced concrete beams", Engineering Structures.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Oehlers, D. J. (accepted 2007). "Manufacture and Testing of a Novel FRP Tube Confinement System." Engineering Structures.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (accepted 2007). "Performance and Design of FRP Anchors." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Oehlers, D. J. (accepted 2007) "Concrete-filled Square and Rectangular FRP Tubes under Axial Compression", Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2007). "Seismic Performance of Square High-Strength Concrete Columns in FRP Stay-in-Place Formwork." Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 133, No.1, pp.44-56

Ravet, F., Zou, L., Bao, X., Ozbakkaloglu, T., Saatcioglu, M., and Zhou, J. (2007). "Distributed Brillouin Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, CJCE, Vol.34, pp.291-297.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2006). "Seismic Behavior of High-Strength Concrete Columns Confined by Fiber Reinforced Polymer Tubes." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE, Vol.10, No.6, pp.538-549.

Ravet, F., X. Bao, Ozbakkaloglu T., and Saatcioglu M. (2006). "Signature of Structure Failure Using Asymmetric and Broadening Factors of Brillouin Spectrum." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, V. 18, No.2, pp.394-396.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2005). "FRP Stay-in-Place Formwork for Seismic Resistant High-Strength Concrete Columns." Special Publication SP-230, ACI, pp.1593-1612.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2004). "Rectangular Stress Block for High-Strength Concrete." ACI Structural Journal, V. 101, No. 4, pp.475-483.

Submitted Journal Papers

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Lim, J.C. (2008). "FRP-confined concrete in circular sections I: review of existing empirical stress-strain models." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Lim, J.C. (2008). "FRP-confined concrete in circular sections II: review of existing mechanism-based stress-strain models." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE.

Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali, M.S., Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Griffith, M.C. (2008) "Rotational capacity analysis of FRP passively confined concrete members." Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE.

Kashyap, J., Ozbakkaloglu, T. and Griffith, M. C. (2008). "Seismic performance of reinforced concrete frames." Journal of Earthquake Engineering (JEE).

Putra, H.D., Ngothai, Y., Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Seracino, R. (2007) "Mineral reinforcement for commingled recycled plastic materials." Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2007). "Compressive Behavior of Concrete-filled FRP Tubes." Special Publication, ACI.

Saatcioglu, M., Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Elnabelsy, G. (2007). "Seismic Behavior and Design of Reinforced Concrete Columns Confined with FRP Stay-in-place Formwork." Special Publication, ACI.

Oehlers, D.J., Mohammed Ali, M.S., Griffith, M.C., and Ozbakkaloglu, T., (2007) "Residual strength of actively confined concrete". ACI Structural Journal

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2007). "Response of Reinforced Concrete Frame and Shear Wall Buildings to Blast Loading." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, CJCE.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2006). "Drift Capacities of Concrete Columns Confined with FRP Casings." ACI Structural Journal.

Refereed Conference Papers

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Lim, J.C., and Griffith, M. C. (2008). "FRP-confined High-strength Concrete under Axial Cyclic Compression." CICE 2008 (submitted).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Lim, J.C., and Oehlers D.J. (2008). "Confinement Effectiveness of Concrete-filled Rectangular FRP Tubes." CICE 2008 (submitted).

Kashyap, J., Ozbakkaloglu, T. and Griffith, M. C. (2007). "Seismic Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Frames in Australia." 8th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8PCEE), Singapore, 5 -7 December, 2007.

Oehlers, D.J., Ali M.S., Griffith, M.C., and Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2007) "Fundamental issues that govern the rotation of FRP retrofitted RC columns and beams: the intractable plastic hinge ductility problem." The First Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS 2007), Hong Kong, China, December 12-14, 2007 (Keynote Paper).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Lim, J.C., and Oehlers, D. J. (2007). "Concrete-Filled Square FRP Tubes under Axial Compression." The First Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS 2007), Hong Kong, China, December 12-14, 2007.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Oehlers, D. J. (2007). "Behavior of Axially Loaded Concrete-filled Rectangular FRP Tubes." 8th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-8), Patras, Greece, July 16-18, 2007 (CDROM-10 pages).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Saatcioglu, M., and Foo, S. (2007) "Behavior of FRP Anchors in Concrete." 8th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement for Concrete Structures (FRPRCS-8), Patras, Greece, July 16-18, 2007 (CDROM-10 pages).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2006). "Comparison of Seismic Performance of HSC Columns Confined by FRP Tubes and Steel Reinforcement." Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Conference on the Mechanic of Structures and Materials (ACMSM), Christchurch, New Zealand, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, pp.109-114.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2006). "Conventional steel ties versus FRP casings as confinement reinforcement for concrete building columns." Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13ECEE), Geneva, Switzerland, September 3-8.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2005). "Rectangular Stress Block for High-Strength Concrete: A Comparative Study." Proceedings of the First Canadian Conference on Effective Design of Structures (CCEDS-1), Hamilton, Ontario, July 10-13, pp.147-156.

Foo, S., Naumoski, N., Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2005). "Floor Response Spectra for Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings in Canada." Proceedings of the First Canadian Conference on Effective Design of Structures (CCEDS-1), Hamilton, Ontario, July 10-13, pp.157-165.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2005). "Comparisons of Seismic Performance of HSC Square Columns Confined by FRP Casings and Conventional Steel Reinforcement." Proceedings of the 33rd CSCE Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June 2-4 (CD-ROM, 10 pages).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Naumoski, N., and Saatcioglu, M. (2005). "Response of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings to Blast Loading." Proceedings of the First CSCE Specialty Conference on Infrastructure Technologies, Management and Policy, Toronto, Ontario, June 2-4 (CD-ROM, 10 pages).

Ravet, F., Bao, X., Ozbakkaloglu, T., Majeed, M., Saatcioglu, M., Ferrier, G., Zou, L., and Chen, L. (2005). "Column Structure Deformation Monitoring with the Distributed Brillouin Sensor." 17th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS-17), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5855, Bruges, Belgium, May 23-27, pp.531-534.

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2004). "Seismic Performance of High-Strength Concrete Columns Cast in Stay-in-Place FRP Formwork." Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13WCEE), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Aug. 1-6 (CD-ROM, 13 pages).

Ozbakkaloglu, T., and Saatcioglu, M. (2004). "Seismic Performance of High-Strength Concrete Square Columns in Stay-in-Place FRP Formwork," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures (ACMBS-IV), Calgary, Alberta, July 20-23 (CD-ROM, 8 pages).

Other Technical Publications

Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2005). "Seismic Performance of High-Strength Concrete Columns in FRP Stay-in-Place Formwork." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 329 pp.

Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2005). "Behaviour of Concrete Columns Confined by FRP Tubes." Proceedings of the Second Student Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Ottawa-Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (OCEERC), Ontario, Canada, pp.11

Ozbakkaloglu, T., Saatcioglu, M., Foo, S., and Naumoski, N. (2002). "Floor Design Response Spectra for Functional and Operational Components of Buildings." Research Report, Ottawa-Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (OCEERC), University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 41 pp.

Ozbakkaloglu, T. (2001). "Emerging Materials in Construction Industry." Technical Report, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 124 pp.

Professional Associations

Member, American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Associate Member, ACI Committee 374, Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings

Associate Member, ACI Committee 440, Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement

Associate Member, ACI-ASCE Joint Committee 441, Reinforced Concrete Columns

Member, International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC)

Member, Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA)

Member, Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering (CAEE)

Former Student Chair, Ottawa Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (OCEERC)

Professional Experience

2006-present Lecturer (Level B), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

2004-2006 Lecturer (Sessional), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

2000-2004 Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

1998-1999 Project Engineer, Yapi ICF Kaiser, Istanbul, Turkey

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