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  • Dr. Yalcinkaya visited Forschungszentrum Jülich - Institute for Advanced Simulations, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sandfeld, and met with previous MCSM members, Aytekin Demirci, Ozan Fenercioglu, and Izzet Tarik Tandogan in Aachen, Germany, on 10-14 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.

  • 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.

  • Dr. Yalcinkaya has visited the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University on 20-31 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, TURKEY.

  • 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.

  • Dr. Yalcinkaya has visited The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg in Freiberg/Germany as visiting professor, where he gave seminars and conducted collaborative research discussions in July 2019.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Micromechanically motivated inter-granular cracking in polycrystalline aggregates at 6th International Conference on Material Modelling on 26th June 2019 in Lund, Sweden.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Physics based cohesive zone relations for intergranular cracking at 18th-GAMM-Seminar on Microstructures 2019 on 19th January 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Inter-Granular Cracking through Micro-Plasticity and Cohesive Zone Modeling at Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials on 25th October 2018 in Ankara, Turkey.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Micromechanical Modelling of Inter-Granular Localization, Damage and Fracture at 22nd European Conference on Fracture - ECF22 on 27th August 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya has visited Doshisha University in Kyoto/Japan as Visiting Assistant Professor, where he gave several lectures and seminars for two weeks in July 2018.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Plasticity at 19th European Solid Mechanics Conference on 4th July 2018 in Bologna, Italy.
  • Our paper with the title Crack Path and Life Prediction Under Mixed Mode Cyclic Variable Amplitude Loading Through XFEM is accepted to be published at International Journal of Fatigue.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya co-authored the talk titled Grain-Scale Investigations of Deformation Heterogeneities in Aluminum Alloys at 21st ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming conference on 24th April 2018 in Palermo, Italy.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Three Dimensional Grain Boundary Modeling in Polycrystalline Plasticity at 21st ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming conference on 24th April 2018 in Palermo, Italy.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya is appointed as the coordinator of the Aerospace Engineering Program at Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus from 28.09.2017 onwards.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Size Effect in Polycrystal Plasticity at COMPLAS 2017 conference on 6th September 2017 at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Intra- and Inter-granular microstructure evolution in plasticity at Experimental and modeling aspects of multi-scale deformation heterogeneity workshop on 25th August 2017 at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya presented the work titled Mixed Mode Fatigue Crack Growth Under Variable Amplitude Loading Through XFEM Based Automated Algorithm at ICSID 2017 Conference in Dubrovnik/Croatia, on 17th August 2017.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya visited Monash University one month as a Visiting Research Scientist in Melbourne/Australia, in July 2017.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya delivered the talk titled Intrinsic and Statistical Size Effects in Microforming at ESAFORM 2017 conference on April 26, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Dr. Yalcinkaya co-organized the Minisymposium Material behaviour: from phenomenologic macroscopic laws to plasticity, DDD, MD approaches at ESAFORM 2017 conference on April 26-28, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland.
  • The H2020 project MULTISCALE MODELLING FOR FUSION AND FISSION MATERIALS has been approved for grant where Dr. Yalcinkaya is a partner of the project consortium with 20 other European organizations.