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  • Our group is pleased to announce that selected papers from IWPDF2025, to be held on 24–26 September 2025 in Istanbul, will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue of Crystals (MDPI), with Dr. Yalçınkaya serving as Guest Editor. Crystals is an open access journal indexed in SCIE and Web of Science (Q2), with all submissions subject to rigorous peer review.
    June 2025
  • Our group gathered together for a barbecue event.
    June 2025
  • Our group member and PhD candidate Can Erdoğan has received an Academic Performance Award for the 2023 Academic Year, presented by the Rector.
    June 2025
  • MCSM Lab participated in the 20th International Conference on Strength of Materials, ICSMA 20, held in Kyoto, Japan, with two presentations. Dr. Yalçınkaya delivered an oral presentation titled "Uncoupled Damage Modeling in Flow Forming Processes: An Assesment of Failure Mechanisms," in collaboration with REPKON and co-authored by Hande Vural and Tevfik Ozan Fenercioğlu. Sadık Sefa Açar presented a poster titled "Multi-scale Modeling of Single Crystal Turbine Blade with Orientation Deviations Under Cyclic Operational Loading," co-authored by Orhun Bulut and Tuncay Yalçınkaya.
    June 2025
  • Dr. Yalçinkaya has attended the 4th Internal Technical Review Meeting of the EU-funded TRANSITION Project, held at the Baker Hughes Florence Learning Center in Florence.
    May 2025
  • Our group member Sadık Sefa Açar presented his work titled "Polycrystalline Plasticity Analysis of Cyclic Loading and Stress Relaxation in Austenitic Stainless Steels" at the 7th Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-7) workshop in Madrid.
    April 2025
  • Dr. Yalçinkaya attended the EU-MACE COST Action meeting held in Burghausen, Germany, where IWPDF 2025, organized by our research group was officially included in the EU-MACE priority conference list.
    March 2025
  • Happy New Year! MCSM Lab gathered to celebrate and welcome the new year.
    January 2025
  • Dr. Yalçinkaya has been elected as an ESIS fellow at ECF24 in Zagreb, Croatia.
    August 2024
  • MCSM Lab has contributed to ECF24 in Zagreb, Croatia with 10 papers.
    August 2024
  • MCSM Lab has organized IWPDF 2023 Meeting in Istanbul on October 4-6, 2023.
    October 2023
  • MCSM Lab has contributed to ESAFORM 2023 Conference in Krakow, Poland with 9 papers.
    April 2023
  • MCSM Lab has contributed to European Conference on Fracture, ECF23 in Madeira, Portugal with 4 papers. The paper titled Phase field modeling of fatigue crack growth at constant and variable amplitude loading got the best poster award.
    July 2022
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya visited Forschungszentrum Jülich - Institute for Advanced Simulations, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sandfeld, and met with previous MCSM members in Aachen, Germany, on 10-14 January 2022.
    January 2022
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya organized and chaired the 2nd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials, virtually on 18-20 August 2021, from Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
    August 2021
  • MCSM Lab members Dr. Yalcinkaya Can Erdogan and Izzet Tarik Tandogan has visited University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science for collaboration discussions with Prof. Dr. Alan Cocks on 8-11 March 2020.
    March 2020
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya has visited the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University on 20-31 January 2020.
    January 2020
  • MCSM Lab has organized the 1st International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials, on 22-23 August 2019 in Ankara, Türkiye.
    August 2019
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya organized the graduate course on variational approaches to inelastic phenomena in continuum mechanics delivered by Prof. Giovanni Lancioni from Polytechnic University of Marche between 14-16 February 2017 at Department of Aerospace Engineering.
    Feburary 2017