Alper Erturk

Alper Erturk is the Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]

Alper Erturk
Born3 April 1982 (1982-04-03) (age 38)
Eskisehir
Alma materVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, METU
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

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

References
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  2. "Smart Structures & Dynamical Systems Laboratory". Ssdsl.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
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  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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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