O. Murat Hamutcuoglu, Ph.D.

Hometown: Ankara, Turkey Professional Experience: Post-Doctoral Researcher, September 2010 present Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC Graduate Research Assistant, September 2005 June 2010 School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Structural Engineer, August 2004 July 2005 Aytac Construction, Istanbul, Turkey

Research Interests: Nonlinear Structural Analysis, Structural Reliability Analysis, Structural Response Sensitivity, Computational Mechanics and Numerical Methods, Structural Safety Assessments in RC Structures, Structural Software Development

Peer-reviewed Publications: Hamutcuoglu, O.M. and M.H. Scott. "Live Load Finite Element Reliability Analysis of Bridge Girders." Structural Safety, 31(5):356-362, September 2009. Scott, M.H. and O.M. Hamutcuoglu. "Numerically Consistent Regularization of Force-Based Frame Elements." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 76(10):1612-1631, December 2008. Scott, M.H. and O.M. Hamutcuoglu. "Analytical Sensitivity of Interpolatory Quadrature in Force-Based Frame Elements." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering (formerly Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering), 26(12):1586-1595, December 2010 Hamutcuoglu, O.M. and M.H. Scott. "Response Sensitivity of A Shear-Bending Interaction Model in Force-Based Frame Elements." Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, (December 2010) in Submission). Atamturktur, S., Williams, B., Hamutcuoglu, O.M. and Unal, C. Batch Sequential Calibration for Improved Predictive Maturity in Science-based Modeling. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, (January 2011 in Submission).

Conference Proceedings: Hamutcuoglu, O.M., Karadogan, F., Pala, S., Girgin, K., The non-linear behavior of low rise R/C buildings with common structural de_ciencies, pp.412-421, Advances in Civil Engineering 2004, 6th International Conference, Bogazici University, October 6-8, Istanbul, Turkey,