Nurettin Yilmaz

Nurettin Yilmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Florida International University since January 2025. He holds a B.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of L’Aquila. His research bridges mathematical modeling, computational mechanics, and continuum mechanics, with a focus on understanding the mechanical behavior of granular materials using continuum models.

Nurettin is currently contributing to research on granular motif metamaterials and constitutive modeling using the Granular Micromechanics Approach. His work focuses on linking microscale grain interactions with macroscale material response through full-field microscale finite element simulations, with the goal of identifying stiffness parameters for an extended micropolar continuum model. A particular focus of his research is the emergence of macroscale mechanical chirality and nonstandard behaviors, such as a negative Poisson’s ratio, which arise in granular microstructures due to specific grain-pair interaction mechanisms and cannot be captured by classical Cauchy continuum models.