Mete Sozen
 Mete Sozen    (academic) | |
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A professor of Structural Engineering who has written a number of government reports after terrorist deep events. |
Mete Sozen is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Purdue University.
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Background
Mete Sozen got his first degree at Robert College and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Career
From 1957 through 1992, Sozen worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] Together with Gene Corley, Mete Sozen worked for many years for the US Department of Defense] through the Blast Mitigation for Structures Program (BMSP).[2]
Activities
Sozen has written a number of reports after terrorist bombings.
Oklahoma Bombing
Mete Sozen worked with Gene Corley, Paul Mlakar and Charles Thornton[3] on the report of the Oklahoma City bombing.[2] In 1998, he published 3 papers in the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities about the OKC bombing, with these co-authors.[4]
9/11
WTC
Sozen (again together with Gene Corley, Charles Thornton and Paul Mlakar) was a team leader of the ASCE investigation (later the FEMA investigation) of the destruction of the WTC. Sozen also led a team that created an engineering simulation of American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The computer–animated visualizations were made entirely from the simulation data.[5]
Pentagon
He also worked on the report of the Pentagon event, coauthoring The Pentagon Building Performance Report with Paul E. Mlakar, Donald O. Dusenberry, James R. Harris, Gerald Haynes and Long T. Phan.
2003 El Nogal Club bombing
Sozen coauthored a report into the 2003 El Nogal Club bombing with Luis E. Garcia, Alejandro Perez, Santiago Pujol and Julio A. Ramirez, which estimated the bomb was equivalent to 160 kg of TNT.[6]
References
- ↑ "Sozen Presents the 2002 Distinguished Lecture on 'A Way of Thinking'" (PDF). EERI Newsletter. Oakland, California: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. 36 (4): 1. April 2002. Retrieved February 9, 2013.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ a b http://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-looking-for-truth-in-credentials-the-peculiar-wtc-experts/5071
- ↑ http://911blogger.com/news/2010-10-15/pentagon-investigation-leader-paul-mlakar-obstructed-investigation-new-orleans-according-uc-berkeley-professor
- ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a417687.pdf
- ↑ "Scientists make computer simulation of 9/11 attack". CBC News. June 13, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.desastre.org/home/data/pdf/risk/esp/El%20Nogal.pdf
