Alper Erturk
Alper Erturk | |
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Born | 3 April 1982 | (age 42)
Alma mater | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, METU |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics |
Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering |
Alper Erturk is the Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]
Research
Erturk leads the Smart Structures and Dynamical Systems Laboratory[2] at Georgia Tech. His publications are mostly in the areas of dynamics and vibration of smart structures and energy harvesting.[3] Erturk made fundamental contributions in the field of energy harvesting from dynamical systems. His distributed-parameter piezoelectric energy harvester models[4][5] have been widely used by several research groups. He was one of the first researchers to explore nonlinear dynamic phenomena for frequency bandwidth enhancement in energy harvesting, specifically by using a bistable Duffing oscillator with electromechanical coupling, namely the piezomagnetoelastic energy harvester.[6] His early energy harvesting work also opened new multiphysics avenues, such as the use of aeroelastic flutter to enable scalable airflow energy harvesting through piezoaeroelastic systems.[7] His recent collaborative work[8] aims to exploit flexoelectricity (strain gradient-induced polarization) for the enhancement of energy harvesting at the nanoscale.[9]
Erturk's group at Georgia Tech also contributed to smart material-based bio-inspired aquatic locomotion by developing the first untethered piezoelectric swimmer[10] as a platform to explore multiphysics fluid-electroelastic structure interactions.[11] Another multiphysics research topic recently explored by his group is acoustic-electroelastic structure interaction for wireless power transfer using ultrasound waves.[12]
Erturk and collaborators have lately been conducting research at the intersection of metamaterials and smart structures. Recently they developed the first Gradient-Index Phononic Crystal Lens-based piezoelectric energy harvester.[13] Low-frequency broadband vibration attenuation via locally-resonant finite elastic metamaterials is another research area explored by Erturk and collaborators.[14]
Awards
- Elected Fellow of the ASME (2017)[15]
- ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award (2017)[16][17]
- TASSA Young Scholar Award - Junior Faculty Level (2016)[18]
- ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award (2015)[19][20][21]
- ASME Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award (2015, 2017)[22]
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2013)[23]
- Sigma Xi Georgia Tech Chapter, Best M.S. Thesis Advisor (2013)
- Liviu Librescu Memorial Scholarship (2008)
- Parlar Foundation Thesis of the Year Award (2006)
References
- ^ "Erturk | The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering". Me.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ "Smart Structures & Dynamical Systems Laboratory". Ssdsl.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ "Alper Erturk - Google Scholar Citations". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ Erturk, A.; Inman, D. J. (2008). "A Distributed Parameter Electromechanical Model for Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters". Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. 130 (4): 041002. doi:10.1115/1.2890402.
- ^ Erturk, A; Inman, D J (2009). "An experimentally validated bimorph cantilever model for piezoelectric energy harvesting from base excitations". Smart Materials and Structures. 18 (2): 025009. Bibcode:2009SMaS...18b5009E. doi:10.1088/0964-1726/18/2/025009. S2CID 11735917.
- ^ Erturk, A.; Hoffmann, J.; Inman, D. J. (2009). "A piezomagnetoelastic structure for broadband vibration energy harvesting". Applied Physics Letters. 94 (25): 254102. Bibcode:2009ApPhL..94y4102E. doi:10.1063/1.3159815. hdl:10919/47364.
- ^ Erturk, A.; Vieira, W. G. R.; De Marqui, C.; Inman, D. J. (2010). "On the energy harvesting potential of piezoaeroelastic systems" (PDF). Applied Physics Letters. 96 (18): 184103. Bibcode:2010ApPhL..96r4103E. doi:10.1063/1.3427405. hdl:10919/47397.
- ^ Deng, Qian; Kammoun, Mejdi; Erturk, Alper; Sharma, Pradeep (2014). "Nanoscale flexoelectric energy harvesting". International Journal of Solids and Structures. 51 (18): 3218–25. doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2014.05.018.
- ^ Moura, Adriane G.; Erturk, Alper (2017). "Electroelastodynamics of flexoelectric energy conversion and harvesting in elastic dielectrics". Journal of Applied Physics. 121 (6): 064110. doi:10.1063/1.4976069.
- ^ Cen, L; Erturk, A (2013). "Bio-inspired aquatic robotics by untethered piezohydroelastic actuation". Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 8 (1): 016006. Bibcode:2013BiBi....8a6006C. doi:10.1088/1748-3182/8/1/016006. PMID 23348365.
- ^ Shahab, S; Erturk, A (2016). "Electrohydroelastic Euler–Bernoulli–Morison model for underwater resonant actuation of macro-fiber composite piezoelectric cantilevers". Smart Materials and Structures. 25 (10): 105007. Bibcode:2016SMaS...25j5007S. doi:10.1088/0964-1726/25/10/105007.
- ^ Shahab, S.; Gray, M.; Erturk, A. (2015). "Ultrasonic power transfer from a spherical acoustic wave source to a free-free piezoelectric receiver: Modeling and experiment". Journal of Applied Physics. 117 (10): 104903. Bibcode:2015JAP...117j4903S. doi:10.1063/1.4914130. S2CID 3916680.
- ^ Tol, S.; Degertekin, F. L.; Erturk, A. (2016). "Gradient-index phononic crystal lens-based enhancement of elastic wave energy harvesting". Applied Physics Letters. 109 (6): 063902. Bibcode:2016ApPhL.109f3902T. doi:10.1063/1.4960792. S2CID 124223649.
- ^ Sugino, Christopher; Leadenham, Stephen; Ruzzene, Massimo; Erturk, Alper (2016). "On the mechanism of bandgap formation in locally resonant finite elastic metamaterials". Journal of Applied Physics. 120 (13): 134501. Bibcode:2016JAP...120m4501S. doi:10.1063/1.4963648. S2CID 32979571.
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- ^ "ME's Alper Erturk to Receive ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award | College of Engineering". Coe.gatech.edu. 2015-03-16. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ "Erturk Receives 2 ASME Awards | The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering". Me.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
- ^ "Erturk Receives NSF CAREER Award | The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering". Me.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-24.