Kutay Orakçal
Rank & Status
Contact Information
Education
Service on This Faculty
Other Related Experience
Research Interests
Publications
Honors and Awards
Other Activities within Engineering and Teaching Professions
Courses Taught
E-Mail
Rank & Status
Assistant Professor, full time
Contact Information
Bogazici University
Department of Civil Engineering
34342 Bebek-Istanbul/TURKEY
Tel: +90(212) 359-7616
Fax: +90(212) 287-2457, +90(212) 265-8488
Education
Ph.D Civil Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2004
M.S. Civil Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2001
B.S. Civil Engineering Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 1998
Service on This Faculty
Assistant Professor 2006-Present
Other Related Experience
Responsibility Location Date
Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles June 2004-August 2006
Post Doctoral Researcher University of California, Los Angeles June 2004-August 2006
Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant University of California, Los Angeles October 1998 - June 2004
Research Interests
Behavior and design of structural elements and systems, reinforced concrete structures, structural modeling, material constitutive modeling, nonlinear structural analysis, laboratory and field testing of structural elements and systems, performance-based design and evaluation, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering.
Publications
Journal Publications
  • Wallace, J.W., Orakçal, K., "ACI 318-99 Provisions for Seismic Design of Structural Walls", American Concrete Institute Structural Journal, V. 99, No. 4, pp. 498-508, 2002.
  • Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., Conte, J.P., "Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis of Slender Reinforced Concrete Walls", American Concrete Institute Structural Journal, V. 101, No. 5, pp. 688-698, 2004
  • Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., "Flexural Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Walls – Experimental Verification", American Concrete Institute Structural Journal, V. 103, No. 2, pp. 196-206, 2006.
  • Massone, L.M., Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., “Shear - Flexure Interaction for Structural Walls”, American Concrete Institute Special Publication SP236-7 – Deformation Capacity and Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Members under Cyclic Loading, pp. 127-150, 2006.
  • Orakçal, K., Massone, L.M., Wallace, J.W., “Shear Strength of Lightly Reinforced Wall Piers and Spandrels”, American Concrete Institute Structural Journal (accepted for publication).
  • Massone. M., Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., “Modeling of Squat Structural Walls Controlled by Shear”, American Concrete Institute Structural Journal (accepted for publication).
Conference Proceedings
  • Orakçal, K., Massone, L.M., Wallace, J.W., “Shear Strength of Lightly Reinforced Wall Piers and Spandrels”, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, October 2008.
  • Orakçal, K., Massone, L.M., Wallace, J.W., “Modeling of Squat Shear Walls Controlled by Shear”, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, October 2008.
  • Lange, S. T., Salamanca, A., Wallace, J. W., Orakçal K., “Reinforced Concrete Hospital Component Testing”, Proceedings, SEAOSC Annual Meeting, pp. 75-85, Squaw Creek, California, September 2007.
  • Massone, L.M., Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., "Shear - Flexure Interaction in Reinforced Concrete Walls", Proceedings, 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, California, April 2006.
  • Wallace, J.W., Massone, L.M., Orakçal, K., Elwood, K.J., "Lateral Load Responses and Axial Load Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Walls and Wall Piers", Proceedings, First NEES/E-Defense Workshop on Collapse Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures, Berkeley, California, July 2005.
  • Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., "Modeling of Slender Reinforced Concrete Walls", Proceedings, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004.
  • Massone, L.M., Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., "Flexural and Shear Responses in Slender Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls", Proceedings, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004
  • Orakçal, K., Wallace, J.W., "Nonlinear Modeling of RC Walls", Proceedings, 7th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2002.
  • Wallace, J.W., Orakçal, K., Sayre, B.L., "Experimental and Analytical Studies of RC and SRC Shear Walls", Proceedings, 2002 Structures Congress, Denver, Colorado, April 2002.
  • Wallace, J.W., Orakçal, K., Cherlin, M., Sayre, B.L., "Lateral Load Behavior of Shear Walls with Structural Steel Boundary Columns", Proceedings, 6th ASCCS Conference on Composite and Hybrid Structures, Los Angeles, California, March 2000.
Technical Reports
  • Orakçal, K., Massone, L.M., Wallace, J.W., "Analytical Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Walls for Predicting Flexural and Coupled Shear-Flexural Responses", Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Report No: PEER 2006/07, University of California Berkeley, California, 2006.
  • Wallace, J. W., Massone, L.M., Orakçal, K., “St. Joseph’s Healthcare Orange, California, SPC-2 Upgrade: E/W Wing Component Test Program – Final Report,” Report No. UCLA SEERL 2006/1, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2006.
  • Wallace, J.W., Orakçal K., Massone L.M., Kang, T.H-K., “St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California, Horizontal Wall Segment Component Test Program”, Report No: UCLA SEERL 2007/1, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2007.
Honors and Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award, Boğaziçi University Foundation, 2008.

Lecturer of the Year Award, University of California Los Angeles, American Society for Civil Engineers Student Chapter, 2006.

Lecturer of the Year Award, University of California Los Angeles, American Society for Civil Engineers Student Chapter, 2005.
Favourite Teaching Assistant Award, University of California Los Angeles, American Society for Civil Engineers Student Chapter, 2000.

Research grants throughout PhD and post-PhD work from the National Science Foundation and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (Grants CMS-9632457, CMS-9810012, and EEC-9701568). 

Other Activities within Engineering and Teaching Professions
  • Scientific Committee, "WCEE-ECEE-TCCE Joint Conference on Earthquake and Tsunami”, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2009.
  • Technical Seminars on "Pushover Analysis for Seismic Performance Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings", Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers, (IMO), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007, 2008.
  • Technical Session Organizer, Session on Performance Based Earthquake Engineering, "Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials–McMat2005", Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, June 2005.
  • Reviewer for ACI Structural Journal, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, EERI Earthquake Spectra, and Engineering Structures.
Courses Taught
Course Code Course Title Hours per Week
CE 354Reinforced Concrete I4 hrs. lecture
CE 353Steel Structures4 hrs. lecture
CE 243Statics4 hrs. lecture + 1 hr. recitation
CE 246Strength of Materials4 hrs. lecture + 1 hr. recitation
CE 58ABehavior and Design of Reinforced Concrete3 hrs. lecture
CE 656Earthquake Engineering3 hrs. lecture