Ph.D. Structural Engineering Northwestern University 1981
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
M.A.Sc. Structural Engineering University of Toronto 1974
Toronto, Ontario
B.S. Civil Engineering Middle East Technical 1972
University Ankara, Turkey
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Dates Position Institution
1993 - Present Professor Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Ottawa
1995 Acting Chairman Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Ottawa
1985 - 1993 Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Ottawa
1981 - 1985 Assistant Professor and Department of Civil Engineering
NSERC University The University of Toronto
Research Fellow
1972 - 1974 Teaching and Department of Civil Engineering
Research Assistant University of Toronto
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dates Position Institution/Company
1980 - 1981 Senior Structural Engineering Development Division
Engineer Construction Technology Labs.
Portland Cement Association Skokie, Illinois, U.S.A.
1978 - 1980 Structural Engineer Engineering Development Division
Construction Technology Labs.
Portland Cement Association
Skokie, Illinois, U.S.A.
1977 - 1978 Structural Engineer Engineering Services Department
Portland Cement Association
Skokie, Illinois, U.S.A.
1975 - 1977 Structural Specialist Ontario Region, Canadian
Portland Cement Association
Toronto, Ontario
1974 - 1975 Metro Engineer Ontario Region, Canadian
Portland Cement Association
Toronto, Ontario
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Recipient of the 1993 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
- Recipient of the 1992 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award.
- Recipient of the 1992 John V. Marsh Award for Excellence in Teaching.
- American Concrete Institute Cross Continent Lecturer on "Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures", 1992-1995.
- Awarded NSERC University Research Fellowship for a complete eligible term of 10 years (1980-1990).
- Part of a Group whose work led to the American Concrete Institute 1989 Charles Whitney Medal in recognition of outstanding engineering development work in concrete design and construction.
- Nominee for ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for 1991.
- Nominee for 1994 Canadian Professor of the Year.
- Nominee for the 1995 Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Faculty Teaching Award.
- Nominee for 1989, 1991 and 1992 OCUFA Teaching Awards, 1991 John V. Marsh Award
for Excellence in Teaching, and 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1995 University of Ottawa Teaching
Awards.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Member, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (APEO)
Member, American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Member, Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Member, Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering
Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
MEMBERSHIP ON TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Member, American Concrete Institute, Design Aids Committee, ACI 340.
Member, American Concrete Institute - American Society of Civil Engineers, Columns Committee, ACI-ASCE 441.
Member, American Concrete Institute - American Society of Civil Engineers, Lateral Loads Committee, ACI-ASCE 442.
Member, American Concrete Institute, Earthquake Resistant Members and Systems Committee, ACI 368.
Member, American Concrete Institute, Subcommittee of ACI-ASCE 441 on Lateral Reinforcement.
Member, American Concrete Institute, Subcommittee of ACI 368 on Column Confinement.
Member, American Concrete Institute, Subcommittee of ACI-ASCE 441 on Ultra High-Strength Concrete.
Member, American Concrete Institute, Lunar Concrete Committee, ACI 125.
Member, NBC - Canadian National Committee on Earthquake Engineering
Member, Canadian Standards Association, Technical Committee on FRP Structural Components
and Materials for Use in Buildings, S806.
TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
Publications in Refereed Journals
RAZVI, S. R. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"A Displacement Based Design Approach for Column Confinement," Submitted for publication in
the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.
SAATCIOGLU, M., SALAMAT, A. H. and RAZVI, S. R.
"Confined Columns under Eccentric Loading," ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.121,
No.11, November 1995, 1547-1556.
MITCHELL, D., DE VALL, R. H., SAATCIOGLU, M, SIMPSON, R. TINAWI, R. and TREMBLAY, R.
"Damage to Concrete Structures due to the 1994 Northridge Earthquake," Canadian Journal of
Civil Engineering, Vol. 22, No.2, April 1995, pp. 361-377.
MITCHELL, D., BRUNEAU, M., WILLIAMS, M., ANDERSON, D., SAATCIOGLU, M. and SEXSMITH, R.
"Performance of Bridges in the 1994, Northridge Earthquake," Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineering, Vol.22, No.2, April 1995, pp.415-427.
RAZVI, S.R., and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Strength and Deformability of Confined High-Strength Concrete Columns," American Concrete
Institute, Structural Journal, Vol. 91, No. 6, 1994, pp. 678-687.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and BRUNEAU, M.
"Performance of Reinforced Concrete Structures During the 1992 Erzincan Earthquake,"
Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, Vol.16, No. 9, September 1994, pp. 51-56.
BRUNEAU, M. and SAATCIOGLU, M
"Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry Structures during the 1992 Erzincan, Turkey, Earthquake,"
The Masonry Society Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 1994, pp. 79-87.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and BRUNEAU, M.
"Performance of Structures During the 1992 Erzincan Earthquake," Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineering, Vol.20, No.2., 1993, pp 305-325.
SAATCIOGLU, M., ALSIWAT, J., and OZCEBE, G.
"Hysteretic Behavior of Anchorage Slip in Reinforced Concrete Members," ASCE Journal of
Structural Engineering, Vol.118, No.9, 1992, pp.2439-2458.
ALSIWAT, J. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Reinforcement Anchorage Slip under Monotonic Loading," ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol.118, No.9, 1992, pp. 2421-2438.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and RAZVI. S.
"Strength and Ductility of Confined Concrete," ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.
118, No.6, 1992, pp. 1590-1607.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Modelling Hysteretic Force-Deformation Relationships of Reinforced Concrete Elements,"
ACI-SP 127.5, American Concrete Institute, 1991, pp.153-198.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Deformability of Reinforced Concrete Columns," ACI-SP 127.10, American Concrete Institute,
1991, pp.421-452.
RAZVI, S. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Discussion of Deformation Properties and Ductility of High-Strength Concrete," ACI Materials
Journal, Vol.88, No.6, 1991. pp 674-675.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Sliding Shear in Low-Rise Shear Walls," Technical Journal of Turkish Chamber of Civil
Engineers, Vol.1, No.2, April, 1990, pp.121-132.
RAZVI, S.R. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Confinement of Reinforced Concrete Columns with Welded Wire Fabric," ACI Structural Journal, American Concrete Institute, Vol.86, No.5, 1989, pp.615-623.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Discussion of Proposed Revisions to Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete,"
ACI Structural Journal, Vol.86, No.3, 1989, pp.345-347.
OZCEBE, G., SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Hysteretic Shear Model for Reinforced Concrete Members," ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol.115, No.1, January, 1989, pp.132 - 148.
SAATCIOGLU, M., OZCEBE.G.
"Response of Reinforced Concrete Columns to Simulated Seismic Loading," ACI Structural
Journal, Vol.86, No.1, Jan.- Feb.,1989, pp.3 - 12.
OZCEBE, G., SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Confinement of Concrete Columns for Seismic Loading," ACI Structural Journal, Vol.84, No.4,
1987, pp. 308 - 315.
SAATCIOGLU, M., CORLEY, W.G., DERECHO, A.T.
"Parametric Study of Earthquake Resistant Coupled Walls," ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol. 113, No. 1, 1987, pp. 141 - 157.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Seismic Resistant Design of Coupled Walls Using Dynamic Inelastic Analysis," International
Journal of Civil Engineering for Practising and Design Engineers", Pergamon Press, Vol. 5, No.
6,1986, pp.499-520.
SAATCIOGLU, M., DERECHO, A.T., CORLEY, W.G.
"Modelling Hysteretic Behavior of Coupled Walls for Dynamic Analysis," Earthquake
Engineering and Structural Dynamics Journal, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1983, Vol. 11, 711-726.
Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Design of Seismic Resistant Concrete Columns for Confinement," Accepted for Publication in
the ASCE 1996 Structures Congress.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Structures During the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in
California," Proceedings of the 1995 CSCE Annual Conference.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and BRUNEAU, M.
"Performance of Reinforced Concrete Structures During the 1992 Erzincan Earthquake in
Turkey," Proceedings of the 10th European Conf. on Earthquake Engng., Vienna, Austria,
Aug.28 - Sept.2, 1994.
RAZVI, S.R. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Behavior of High-strength Concrete Columns Confined with Circular Spirals," Proceedings of
the 10th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vienna, Austria, Aug.28 - Sept.2,
1994.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and RAZVI, S.R.
"Behavior of High-Strength Concrete Columns Confined with Rectilinear Ties," Proceedings of
the the 5th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vol.II, 1994, pp.629-638.
BRUNEAU, M. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry Structures During the 1992 Erzincan, Turkey, Earthquake,"
Proceedings of the the 5th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vol. III, 1994,
pp. 409-418.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"High-Strength Concrete Columns in High-Rise Buildings," Proceedings of ASCE Structures
Congress '94, The Growth of High-Rise Concrete Buildings, Atlanta, 1994, Vol. 1, pp.37-42.
SHEIKH, S. A. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Design of Lateral Steel in Columns," Proceedings of ASCE Structures Congress '94, Progress in
Reinforced Concrete Column Design, Atlanta, 1994, Vol.1, 432-437.
AZIZINAMINI, A., PAULTRE, P. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"High-Strength Concrete Columns: State of Knowledge," Proceedings of ASCE Structures
Congress '94, Progress in Reinforced Concrete Column Design, Atlanta, 1994, Vol. 1, pp.
444-449.
RAZVI, S.R. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Deformability of High-Strength Concrete," Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Symposium on
Cement and Concrete," Ottawa, 1993 pp.42-53.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and RAZVI, S.R.
"Behaviour of Confined High-Strength Concrete Columns," Proceedings of the 1993 Structural
Concrete Conference, Canadian Portland Cement Assoc., Toronto, 1993.
ALSIWAT, J.M. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Modelling Anchorage Slip for Dynamic Analysis," Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference
on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain, 1992, Vol.5, pp.2627-2632.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Response to Seismic Excitations," Proceedings of an
International Conference on Advances in Simulation '92, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey,
1992, pp.245-255.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Hysteretic Shear Response of Low-Rise Walls," Proceedings of International Workshop on
Concrete Shear in Earthquake, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, University of
Houston, Houston, Texas, 1991, pp.I12-1 to I12-10.
SAATCIOGLU, M., CHAKER, D.
"Effect of Building Height on Dynamic Response of Coupled Walls," Proceedings of the Ninth
European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1990, Vol.10-B,
pp.90-100.
SAATCIOGLU, M., WOOD, S.L., FRENCH, C.W.
"Deformability of Reinforced Concrete Members," Proceedings of ASCE Structural Congress'89,
Seismic Engineering Research and Practice, May,1989, San Francisco, U.S.A., pp. 847 - 856.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Seismic Resistance of Concrete Bridge Columns," Proceedings of Twelfth Canadian Congress on
Applied Mechanics Carleton University, Ottawa, May 1989, Vol.1, pp. 246 - 247.
SAATCIOGLU, M., OZCEBE, G.
"Effect of Bar Slip on Hysteretic Behavior of Concrete Columns," Proceedings of the Fifth
Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1987, pp.833 - 839.
WIRADINATA, W., SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Tests of Squat Shear Walls Under Lateral Load Reversals," Proceedings of the Third U.S.
National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A., 1986,
Vol.2, pp.1395-1406.
OZCEBE, G., SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Columns Under Bi-directional Load Cycles," Proceedings of
the Eight European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 1986, Vol. 4, Sec.
7.4, pp.41-48.
SAATCIOGLU, M., WIRADINATA, S.
"The Effect of Aspect Ratio on Seismic Resistance of Squat Shear Walls," Proceedings of the
Eight European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 1986, Vol.4, Sec.7.3,
pp.17-23.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Computer Aided Aseismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures," Proceedings of the
International Conference on Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Concrete Structures", Split
Yugoslavia 1984, Vol.2 pp. 859-872.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Tests of Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Uniaxial and Biaxial Load Reversals,"
Proceedings of the Eight World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, U.S.A,
1984, Vol.6, pp.585-592.
SAATCIOGLU, M., PARMELEE, R.A.
"Strength, Stiffness and Ductility Requirements for Coupled Walls," Proceedings of the Seventh
European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Athens, Greece, 1982, Vol.4, pp.163-170.
SAATCIOGLU, M., TAKAYANAGI, T., DERECHO, A.T.
"Dynamic Response of Reinforced Concrete Wall Systems," Proceedings of the Seventh World
Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 1980, Vol.5, pp.49-56.
SAATCIOGLU, M., DERECHO, A.T.
"Dynamic Inelastic Response of Coupled Walls as Affected by Axial Forces," Proceedings of the
CSCE-ASCE-ACI-CEB International Symposium on Nonlinear Design of Concrete Structures,
University of Waterloo Press, SM Study No.14, 1980, pp.639-670.
Books and Book Chapters
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Flexure," Chapter 2 of the CPCA Concrete Design Handbook, Second Edition, the Canadian
Portland Cement Association, 1995, pp. 2-1 to 2-18.
McGREGOR, SAATCIOGLU, M., CUMMING, S., and McGRATH, R.J.
"General," Chapter 1 of the CPCA Concrete Design Handbook, Second Edition, the Canadian
Portland Cement Association, 1995, pp. 1-1 to 1-54.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Slender Columns," Chapter 8 of the CPCA Concrete Design Handbook, Second Edition, the
Canadian Portland Cement Association, 1995, pp. 8-1 to 8-17.
GHOSH, S.K. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Ductility and Seismic Behavior", Chapter 8 of "High-Strength Concrete," Published by McGraw
Hill (Editors: S. Ahmed and S. Shah), 1994, pp. 237-312.
McGREGOR, J.G., SAATCIOGLU, M., CUMMING, S.
"General Design Information," Chapter 1 of Concrete Design Handbook, Published by Canadian
Portland Cement Association, Ottawa, 1986, pp.1.1 - 1.59.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Proportioning of Sections - Strength Design Method," Chapter 1 of Handbook of Concrete
Engineering, Second Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold 1985, pp. 1 - 52 (Editor: Mark Fintel).
SAATCIOGLU, M. with the Members of ACI Committee 340
"Design Handbook - Volume 1," American Concrete Institute, SP-17(91), 1991, p.361.
SAATCIOGLU, M. with the Members of ACI Committee 340
"Design of Two-Way Slabs, Supplement to Design Handbook Volume 1," American Concrete
Institute, SP-17(84)(S), 1985, p.103.
SAATCIOGLU, M. with the Members of ACI Committee 340
"Design Handbook Volume 2 - Columns," American Concrete Institute, SP-17A(90), 1990, p.
219.
SAATCIOGLU, M. (Editor)
"Metric Design Handbook for Reinforced Concrete Elements," Published by Canadian Portland
Cement Association, Ottawa, 1978, 1980, p.543.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Design of Two-Way Slab Systems," Chapter 4 of Metric Design Handbook for Reinforced
Concrete Elements, Published by Canadian Portland Cement Association, 1978, 1980, pp.4.1 -
4.78.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"General Design Information," Chapter 8 of Metric Design Handbook for Reinforced Concrete
Elements, Published by Canadian Portland Cement Association, 1978, 1980, pp.8.1 - 8.21.
Research Reports
SAATCIOGLU, M. and RAZVI, S.R.
"Analytical Model for Confined Concrete," Research Report, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 1991, p.58.
RAZVI, S.R. and SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Columns Confined with Welded Wire Fabric and Rectilinear
Ties," Research Report, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, 1989, p. 103.
SAATCIOGLU, M. and WASSIEWICZ, Z.F.
"Thermal and Fire Performance of Fibre Reinforced Corrugated Roofing Sheets," Research
Report, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, 1989, p. 35.
SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Seismic Response of Ordinary Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings," Research Report,
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, 1988, p. 40.
COLLINS, M.P., SAATCIOGLU, M.
"Wood-Concrete Composite Bridges," Submitted to OMTC, Dept. of Civil Engineering,
University of Toronto, 1982, p.121.
SAATCIOGLU, M., DERECHO, A. T., CORLEY, W. G., PARMELEE, R.A., SCANLON, A.
"Coupled Walls in Earthquake Resistant Buildings," Parametric Investigation and Design
Procedure", Submitted to NSF, Construction Technology Laboratories, Portland Cement
Association, Skokie, Ill. 1981, p.131.
SAATCIOGLU, M, DERECHO, A.T., CORLEY, W.G.
"Coupled Walls in Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Modeling Techniques and Dynamic Analysis,"
Submitted to NSF, Construction Technology Laboratories, Portland Cement Association, 1980,
p.117.
SAATCIOGLU, M., HUGGINS, M.W.
"Slender Concrete Columns as Affected by Percentage of Reinforcement," University of Toronto, Department of Civil Engineering, Publication No. 75-06-1975, p.22.