I was born on 28th of April 1975. I am Msc.Civil Engineer. I am from Turkey. I have completed my military service. Now I am seeking a job where I can improve myself and contribute. I can accomodate in every city/country.
Name of Staff: A. Oğuz Develi
Profession: Civil / Structural Engineer
Date of Birth: 28th April 1975
Nationality: Turkish
Member of Professional Societies: Turkish Association of Chambers of Engineers and Architects (TMMOB),Boğaziçi Engineering Group (BIG)
Key Qualifications:
A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., M.Sc., has 2.5 years experience in steel structures, reinforced concrete structures and earthquake retrofitting projects.
A.Oğuz Develi had attended to 60th Year Anatolian High School with a special exam and educated between 1986-1990. He had learned English as a primary and German as a secondary language. He had had the right to apply for science high schools because of his high marks in lessons. After a special exam, he attended to Turkey’s first science high school established in 1964, in Ankara. He continued his English and German education in this school also.
Between 1994-1998, he educated in Istanbul Technical University Civil Engineering Department. He took extra 8 lessons and 20 credits for learning engineering English. For those extra credits he was awarded with the diploma of “English supported education”. He also attended to Goethe Institute for one course in the aim of improving his German knowledge.
In the last year of I.T.U., he took mostly lessons about steel structures. His thesis was with Turkey’s most famous teacher in steel structures subject, Prof.Dr.Yalman Odabaşı. In the thesis; analysis, design and drawings of a 1st degree hyper static industrial building were done. The building had one span of 22m. Column heights were 7m. Frame spacings were 5.5m. Slope of the roof was given as 10%, purlin spacings were given as 1050mm. Since the purlin spacings were very small, roof truss was organized with intermediates, which loaded extra moments to top chords. Roof truss was given in trapezoidal shape. From braces to horizontal tie beams; from combining elements to lengths of plates; from calculations of purlins to foundation elements; all the calculations and drawings of details were done.
In the reinforced concrete lesson project; 25mx20m reinforced concrete building with balconies (cantilever slabs) in two sides, two lowered slabs and 5 storeys was analyzed and designed according to 1998 Earthquake Specification under horizontal and vertical loading. Building was in the 1st earthquake zone and ground safety strength was given as 2.5 kg/cm2. Calculations of slabs, beams, columns, foundation, stairs; drawings of storey plans and reinforcement application plans were prepared.
A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., had the right to have master course in Boğaziçi University because of his high diploma score of 3.06 in ITU. He also passed the proficiency exam, which Boğaziçi University prepared to test the students’ English knowledge and it became unnecessary for attending to preparation class. During the master course, he took the lessons of “Matrix Theory” and “Finite Element Method” from Prof.Dr.Semih Tezcan; “Plastic Design of Steel Structures” from Prof.Dr.Gülay Altay; “Reinforced Concrete” from Prof.Dr.Oral Büyüköztürk. In the preparation of the projects of those lessons he modeled and analyzed several structures in Sap90 computer program.
In his first year in master course, he worked in Uzay Sistem Ltd.Co. 6 months. In this period he prepared several projects:
• Restaurant and warehouses constructed nearby the Star TV building/ İkitelli: 2 single storey steel structures as warehouse and restaurant were built. The façade and the roof were covered with aluminum sandwich panels. A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., prepared all the calculations, AutoCAD drawings and quantity survey of the buildings and controlled the application at the site.
• Repairing project of the roof storey of street children’s dormitory/ Kadıköy: The roof storey of street children’s dormitory had been fired and damaged totally. The firm had the job to repair it. For the roof storey, project was prepared with all calculations, AutoCAD drawings and quantity survey by A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng. Steel columns placed onto the reinforced concrete columns of the building with chemical bounders. A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., controlled the application of the project. He also gave detailed information to Management of Public Works about the project and succeeded to take approval.
• Half storey (Mezzanine) made to the factory of Uzay Sistem Ltd.Co./Dudullu: Extra office place was gained by adding a mezzanine to the factory, which the firm had bought. Steel profile beams were anchored to the existing reinforced concrete columns and cross beams were placed between them. Sheet irons used as slabs. A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., prepared all the calculations and quantity survey of the project.
• Factory building project/ Bursa: At the last period of working in the firm, he was asked to prepare the calculations of a 25 tons craned factory building in steel. The project was cancelled although its calculations were almost done by A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng.
• Preparing tenders of space frame structure projects with computer program: Deciding the dimensions of the project either from the plans or by going to site and measuring; preparing the model of the project in FrameCad program, having the quantity from the program and preparing the tender according to the results.
In December 1998, he resigned from the firm because of his lessons’ density in master course.
In July 1999, he worked on the assessment project of Bursa bus terminal’s space frame steel roof with Prof.Dr.Gülay Altay, Dr.Yılmaz Yuva, Dr.Kemal Hanoğlu. The roof consisted of two symmetric parts, which were separated by a longitudinal joint. Dimensions of each part were 73mx85m. Space frame consisted of 2.8mx2.8m modules. Module height was 1.98m. For supporting each part of the roof 16 reinforced concrete columns were used. Under snow, wind and earthquake loading, weak pipes were determined. Analysis was made in Sap 90 computer program.
In September 1999, after the August 17th earthquake, some work groups for seismic assessment on the region were established. He attended to those groups first in Bağcılar under Prof.Dr.Semih Tezcan supervision with B.I.G. (Boğaziçi Engineering Group). Later he also worked with Japan earthquake engineers at Gölcük and Adapazarı.
In October 1999, he began to work in Fuji Engineering Ltd.Co. with Yusuf Zahit Gündoğdu. He had different duties during 9 months period;
• He helped to Mr.Gündoğdu in preparing AutoCAD drawings of a building project in Azerbaijan.
• Seismic assessment report/Avcılar: He prepared seismic assessment report of a 10-storey building, which was damaged in earthquake. He determined; the concrete quality, by making tests on every storey of the building with Schmidt hammer and ultrasound equipment; and if the reinforcement had been put correctly according to the building’s project or not, with X-ray equipment. He recorded the differences and real measurements. After that he modeled the building according to those real data in Probina Orion 2000 computer program. By analyzing the building under earthquake loading, damages that could exist in a real earthquake were determined. A detailed report about the existing building was prepared.
• Retrofitting project/ Avcılar: Retrofitting project was prepared for the building, which had an assessment report before. The building consisted of shear walls and mat foundation. But from the tests, concrete quality was very low and extra shear walls could not be put. Therefore existing shear walls were expanded in the retrofitting project. But it was not applied because of the high cost to the owner.
• Seismic assessment report for Volvo head office, Merter: Seismic assessment report of a 3-storey building with basement apartment was prepared. Concrete qualities by making tests in several columns and beams of the building with Schmidt hammer and ultrasound equipment; and reinforcement spacings by X-ray equipment were determined. Also samples from concrete with carrot machine were taken and a correlation was done between tests and samples experiments’ results. Concrete and soil strengths were recorded to computer program and existing building was modeled. Retrofitting was seemed necessary and a detailed report was prepared.
• Retrofitting project for Volvo head office, Merter: According to the analysis made by A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., shear walls were placed in basement and ground floor. Also some columns were expanded. New basements were built under new shear walls.
• Site application of retrofitting project for Volvo head office, Construction firm: Ulusoy İnşaat Co., Merter: A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng. supervised the site work for 1 month.
After the end of the work, in July 2000, A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng. resigned from the job and returned to his master thesis, which he could not begin until that time.
A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng. worked as a surveillant between November 1998 and July 2000 at Boğaziçi University Superdorm so that he could stay there for two years paying fewer fees. The duty was to keep the relation between dormitory management and the resident students.
He studied with Prof.Dr.Gülay Altay who was responsible of “Steel Structures” subject at Boğaziçi University in his master thesis. In his thesis, nonlinear behavior of a three dimensional steel building was investigated. Preliminary design of the building was carried out under the requirements of British standard, BS 5950. Then, the building was designed in a computer program (Sap2000) that covers static and dynamic finite element analysis of structures, using Turkish earthquake code for lateral loading and BS5950 for designing. After the member design of the building was completed, one frame for each of two directions was examined by pushover analysis. Performance comparison of different frame types, X braced, V braced, moment resisting and partially restrained, was completed by means of FEMA specifications (273,274,356) and ATC 40 (American earthquake specifications). Behaviors of those different frame types were evaluated with three different spectrums of serviceability, design and maximum earthquakes. Some recommendations about the best frame type that resist to each earthquake were made.
In the preparation of the thesis, for “Performance Based Design” subject, relevant lesson of Prof.Dr.Nuray Aydınoğlu from Kandilli Observatory was taken without credits, a project of the lesson was done, FEMA and ATC specifications were learned.
After the presentation and admission of the thesis (members of the jury; Prof.Dr.Gülay Altay, Prof.Dr.Semih Tezcan, Prof.Dr.Cengiz Dökmeci), A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., M.Sc., went to Rocket School at Polatlı for doing his military service in August 2001. After 4 months of education, he was sent to Turkish Landforces Headquarters, Engineering Department in Ankara in November 2001. He worked there 1 year. The office was the place, which controlled and planned all the constructions of Turkish Landforces around Turkey. He helped to develop a new system about controlling the constructions with a computer program, which is written by the computer engineers. He tested the program, found gaps in the program and gave some ideas. He prepared the planning of constructions and costs to budget. He also went to some military buildings in different regions of Turkey for determining the needs and damages due to past earthquakes. He prepared brochures in Freehand program, arranged photographs in Photoshop program and scanner, prepared web pages about current situations of constructions in Frontpage program and slides for important meetings with Powerpoint program. Also he prepared complex, dependent tables and drew their charts in Excel program. As a result he improved his computer knowledge in his military service. He was awarded with a “letter of appreciation” due to his successful and devoted works. He finished his military service in lieutenant rank on November 21st of 2002.
A.Oğuz Develi, Civil Eng., M.Sc., is still looking for a job where he can work in engineering field, improve himself and have valuable experiences.
A.Oğuz Develi played handball in Ankara Science High School, Istanbul Technical University and 1 year in Boğaziçi University teams. Also he is still playing tennis, which he took as a lesson and learned in ITU. He also swims. He began to deal with painting in Boğaziçi University and he took lessons from artist Aydın Gürol in his military service period.