Zahid Hamarat

Title: 
Assistant Professor
Room / Office: 
M4305
Phone Number: 
+90 212 359 7353
zahid.hamarat@bogazici.edu.tr
Degrees: 

Ph.D. 2022, Railway Systems, Birmingham Centre For Railway Research and Education, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
M.S. 2015, Mechanical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye
B.S. 2012, Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye

Experience: 

Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Bogazici, 2023 –
Teaching Assistant, Engineering Faculty, the University of Birmingham, 2018-2022.
Engineer, Metro Istanbul (IBB), Istanbul, 2013- 2017

Courses Taught: 
  • ME241 Statics
Research Interests: 
  • Railways Switches and Crossings
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Peridynamics
  • Finite Element Method
Publications: 

Journals

  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Mika Silvast and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. “New Insights from Multibody Dynamic Analyses of a Turnout System under Impact Loads”. Applied Sciences, 9, no. 19 (2019): 4080.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Mika Silvast, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "The effect of unsupported sleepers/bearers on dynamic phenomena of a railway turnout system under impact loads." Applied Sciences 10, no. 7 (2020): 2320.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "Train-track interactions over vulnerable railway turnout systems exposed to flooding conditions." Engineering Failure Analysis 127 (2021): 105459.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "Fatigue damage assessment of complex railway turnout crossings via Peridynamics-based digital twin”, Scientific reports 12.1 (2022): 1-23.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "A novel damage assessment method in Peridynamic Simulations”, 2021.
  • Sresakoolchai, Jessada, Mehmet, Hamarat, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "Automated recognition of railway turnout support deterioration due to floods using machine intelligence”, 2022.

Conference Papers

  • Hamarat, Mehmet Zahid, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, and Mayorkinos Papaelias. "Contact conditions over turnout crossing noses." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 471, no. 6, p. 062027. IOP Publishing, 2019.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet Zahid, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, and Mayorkinos Papaelias. "A life-cycle cost analysis of railway turnouts exposed to climate uncertainties." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 471, no. 6, p. 062026. IOP Publishing, 2019.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "A Stochastic Approach for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Railway Turnouts Exposed to Climate Uncertainties." Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings 2, no. 16 *Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, and Mika Silvast. "Dynamic analysis of a railway turnout system under moving train loads." Acoustics 2019, pp. 237-245. Institute of Acoustics, 2019.
  • Kaewunruen, Sakdirat, Matthieu Sechet, Mehmet Hamarat, and Keiichi Goto. "Life cycle evaluation of railway turnout crossings’ impact attenuation methods using soft fasteners and composite sleepers." In Acoustics 2018. Institute of Acoustics, 2018.
  • Hamarat, Mehmet, Mayorkinos Papaelias, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "Vulnerability of railway switches and crossings exposed to flooding conditions." Resilient Infrastructure, pp. 337-348. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Book Chapters

  • Hamarat, Mehmet Z., Mika Silvast, and Sakdirat Kaewunruen. "Railway turnouts and inspection technologies." Rail Infrastructure Resilience. Woodhead Publishing, 2022. 319-340.