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See:
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90-638241
http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/zafer-gurdal/9/89b/671
http://www.dept.aoe.vt.edu/~gurdal/Aerospace
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/G=uuml=rdal:Zafer.html
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/zafer-gurdal
http://www.amazon.com/Zafer-G%C3%BCrdal/e/B001HCWO72
http://www.citg.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/structural-engineering/sections/structural-mechanics/seminar/seminar-pages/2006/zafer-gurdal/
Structures Chair Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Prof. Gürdal received his B.S. in Mechanical Eng., Middle East Technical University 1979, M.S. in Mechanical & Aerospace Eng., Illinois Institute of Technology 1981, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace & Ocean Eng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1985. He subsequently joined the Engineering Science & Mechanics Department as an Assistant Professor, and became a Full Professor in 1995. He held a jointly appointed position of the Professor of Aerospace & Ocean Eng. and Engineering Science & Mechanics at Virginia Tech until 2006.
In 2004 Prof. Gürdal was appointed as the Chair Holder of Aerospace Structures at TU Delft in The Netherlands. He also holds an honorary Professor Emeritus appointment at Virginia Tech.
Prof. Gürdal’s research interests are in structural and multidisciplinary design and optimization, design and optimization of composite materials and structures, adaptive structures, buckling and postbuckling of thin-walled structures, global/local design methodologies for optimization of large complex systems, and computational methods for design. His research has been largely funded by NASA Langley Research Center and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Research funding from various companies include Sikorsky Aircraft, Ford Motor Co., Schneider Electric, Boeing Defense and Space, Mc. Donnell Douglas, Boeing Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, Newport News Shipbuilding, Material Science Corporation, and ALCOA. He also worked with a number of small companies, and is one of the founders of ADOPTECH, Inc., a small business in Blacksburg Virginia.
Prof. Gürdal’s research contributions resulted in more than 200 publications. He is a co-author of 3 books; “Design and Optimization of Laminated Composite Materials.” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., “Elements of Structural Optimization”, 3rd Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, “Optimal Design: Theory and Applications to Material and Structures.” Technomic Publishing Co., Inc.
Prof. Gürdal taught several AIAA Professional Development Short courses. He served as the graduate thesis advisor for 32 masters and 17 doctoral students. He is a Lifetime member and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and one of the founding members of the AIAA Multidisciplinary Optimization Technical Committee (MDO-TC).
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