Hasan Demirkoparan

Hasan Demirkoparan joined CMU-Q in August 2005 to teach mathematics. His areas of interest are the mathematical modelling of fiber reinforced materials and swellable materials, investigating theories to model complex material behavior in solids, as well as boundary value problems appearing in finite elasticity. Demirkoparan has successfully completed three NPRP grants that study new mathematical models for the large strain swelling response of biological tissues: applications to edema, inflammation and pregnancy and developing a theory for the complex material behavior. Moreover, a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient is used, and energy minimization is applied to both portion of the decomposition. As a result, a new balance requirement (Internal Balance Requirement) is achieved in addition to standard balance equations. Among other things, emergence of singular surfaces in a circular shear problem is captured.