Recycling

Biography

Ilker Bekir Topçu is currently professor in the Civil Engineering Department, EskiÅŸehir Osmangazi University, EskiÅŸehir, Turkey. He graduated from Engineering and Architecture of State Academy in 1980, and obtained his Masters degree from the Institute of Science, Anadolu University, EskiÅŸehir, Turkey, in 1984 and joined the teaching profession as a research assistant in 1982 at the Anadolu University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Science, Ä°stanbul Technical University, Ä°stanbul, Turkey, in 1988. He has worked as a visiting scientist at the Lehigh University, from 1990 to 1992, and Northwestern University, from 1996 to 1997. He has published 140 refereed papers in international and national journals, 156 proceedings papers in international and national congress and symposiums, one book chapter and 51 actual papers. His papers cited more then 3000. He supervised 12 PhD and 42 Ms Thesis. His research interests are lightweight, heavyweight and high-strength concretes, concretes using industrial wastes such as fly ash, bottom ash, silica fume, waste tire, waste glass and waste concrete, Khorasan mortars, concrete as a composite material, using admixtures and addititives in concrete, Ferrocement and using artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic technics in concrete technology. He is currently supervising 6 Ph D and 11 Ms Thesis. Married and have a daughter.

Abstract

Abstract : Re-Use of Polypropylene Fiber Admixed Recycled Aggregates in Concrete