Failure in Aircraft Materials

Selim Gürgen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi University and the Director of Eskişehir Vocational School. He is an Executive Board Member of the ESOGU Aerospace Technologies Research Center. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Wollongong for a project on smart materials. He was at the University of Aveiro on natural composites, and worked as a researcher with the School of Transportation at Anadolu University for four years. Before his academic life, he worked as a manufacturing engineer in a joint venture of KMWE-Dutch Aero. Dr. Gürgen has contributed to several industrial and research projects in collaboration with major organizations such as Fiat Automobiles, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), and the Turkish Air Force. His projects were funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and the European Union (EU). He has many publications in refereed international journals and conferences. He serves as an editorial member for several international journals. Dr. Gürgen is the co-editor of the book Materials, Structures, and Manufacturing for Aircraft (Springer, 2022) and editor of the books Shear Thickening Fluid: Theory and Applications (Springer, 2023) and Shear Thickening Fluid: Case Studies in Engineering (Springer, 2023). His primary area of research is material science.

• Solid lubricants against wear formation in aerospace components.- A numerical study on the flexural behavior and failure mechanisms of fiber metal laminates.- Fracture characteristics of welded joints in aluminum matrix composite.- Fatigue failure in aircraft materials.- High cycle fatigue fracture and corrosion behavior of an aerospace alloy manufactured with the wire arc directed energy deposition technology.- Stress corrosion cracking in aircraft alloys.- Creep failure in aero engine components.