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Kaan Inal
Professor (PhD)
Research interests:
- Finite-strain Plasticity
- Micromechanics of Deformation
- Metal Formability
- Crystal Plasticity
- Numerical Modeling with finite element method
- Parallel Computing
- Nanotechnology
- Automotive
- Instabilities and Localized Deformation Phenomena in Materials
About professor Inal
Kaan Inal is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He received his undergraduate degree in 1996 and his PhD in 2001. After working as post-doctoral fellow and research associate, professor Inal joined the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo (2006).
His primary research focuses on multi-scale modeling and development of mechanism driven advanced material models. Professor Inal has applied multiscale frameworks for several new and emerging materials to enable their applications for automotive lightweighting.
He also leads a research group focusing on high performance computing (parallel computing) for “industrial scale” simulations with mechanism based constitutive models. These models are coupled with computational intelligence methods such as neural networks and genetic algorithms for simulations in the field of solid mechanics.
He has co-authored more than 70 research articles and book chapters. Professor Inal has held visiting professorship at University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Institute of Technology. He was also a visiting scientist with General Motors Canadian Regional Engineering Center (2014) where he participated in various projects on lightweighting.
Professor Inal is currently the General Motors Research Chair in Integrated Computational Mechanics for Mass Efficient Automotive Structures.