Pinar Okumus
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineerin
Suny Buffalo Schools of Medicine and Engineering
United States of America
Biography
The focus of Dr. Okumus’ research is on understanding the fundamental structural behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete bridge structures under service and extreme loads. Her work to date covered investigating nonlinear behavior of prestressed concrete, large scale testing of advanced materials for seismic resiliency, accelerated bridge construction, in-situ testing, and analytical modeling to develop design and analysis methods for durable, innovative, sustainable and rapidly constructed structures.
Research Interest
Structural and Earthquake Engineering; Bridge Engineering
