COŞKUN FIRAT DURSUN

- Developed vehicle structures to meet global crash safety requirements, collaborating with designers to enhance safety performance.
- Conducted side and front crash simulations using LS-Dyna, ensuring compliance with UNECE regulations and NCAP protocols.
- Set up, executed, and analyzed vehicle crash tests, including static and dynamic subsystem assessments (e.g., R14, R17, R145, FMVSS216).
- Played a key role in processing and interpreting test data to identify issues and provided actionable insights for design optimization.
- Development of high-voltage component protection strategies, ensuring robust designs for electric vehicles.
- Supported post-test activities, including structural teardown, package inspections, and sensor data performance analysis.
- Contributed to new platform development by conducting basic design and concept evaluations.

• I work on structural analysis of aircraft seats, correlation with physical tests, design of kinematic behavior and survival mechanisms, topological optimization and impact characterization.
• I perform explicit kinematic simulation and implicit static strength analysis

• I conducted research on the principles of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics
• I worked on modeling and analyzing internal and external flows with CFD software
• I analyzed laminar and turbulent flows on NACA standard profiles using Metacomp CFD++ program
• By modeling combustion and transonic flow scenarios, I developed the internal ballistic analysis of the rocket engine for my thesis

• The SANCAK-1 rocket with a fiberglass composite body, of which we produced many parts in the workshops of the UUB Faculty in the ROTEK club, won first place in the 'Payload' category in the 'International Rocketry Week' competition.
• The artificial satellite, which receives its energy from the sun and leaves the rocket at the geostationary point (the farthest point), landed on the ground without any problems and won the award.

• The rocket consisting of carbon fiber composite body, power rings, motor housing, fins and other parts, which is our own production in the team in which I took part in the mechanical team, ranked level 2 in the 'International Rocketry Week' competition in Scotland.

• Periodic control, maintenance and repair of pressure vessels, installation and maintenance of automatic extinguishing systems