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Courses

Our courses cover topics in structural analysis as well as introductory and advanced lectures in mechanics. In the offered modules, we prepare our students optimally for their future tasks in civil engineering through practical examples. The module contents are summarized below. Students of the University of Siegen can find up-to-date information about the courses and exams as well as the associated learning materials on the Moodle and unisono pages of the university.

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Undergraduate courses

  • Support forces and internal forces
  • Trusses, beams and frames
  • Center of gravity 

Module coordinator: Dr. Benjamin Ankay

  • Stress
  • Principle of virtual work
  • Kinematics and kinetics

Module coordinator: Dr. Benjamin Ankay

  • Internal forces and displacements in statically determinate beam structures
  • Force method, displacement method and direct stiffness method for the analysis of statically indeterminate beam structures
  • Influence lines

Module coordinator: Prof. Okyay Altay

Graduate courses

  • Numerical differentiation and integration
  • Numerical methods based on strong and weak formulations
  • Dynamic problems

Module coordinator: Dr. Benjamin Ankay

  • Geometrically nonlinear beam structures
  • Stability
  • Physical nonlinearities

Module coordinator: Prof. Okyay Altay

  • Membranes
  • Plates
  • Shells

Module coordinator: Prof. Okyay Altay

  • Weak formulation, element stiffness matrices
  • Higher order test functions (quadratic, cubic, iosgeometric)
  • Dynamic problems

Module coordinator: Dr. Benjamin Ankay

  • Discrete and continuous systems
  • Frequency and time domain methods
  • Vibration control methods

Module coordinator: Prof. Okyay Altay

Contact person

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Okyay Altay

Professor

Contact

okyay.altay@uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740 2173
PB-A 114
Paul-Bonatz-Straße 9-11

Prof. Altay has held the Chair of Structural Analysis at the University of Siegen since 2024. Before that, he served at RWTH Aachen University as Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Structural Analysis and Structural Dynamics and as Managing Director of the Center for Wind and Earthquake Engineering. He completed his habilitation at RWTH in 2021 with research on adaptive vibration reduction, material modeling, and real-time simulations, and earned his doctorate with distinction in 2013 for his work on tuned liquid column dampers.

Prior to his academic career, he worked at Bernard Ingenieure in Vienna as a project manager and later as deputy managing director of the subsidiary RED Bernard, focusing on bridge monitoring and vibration reduction. He studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University with a specialization in structural engineering, after completing his schooling at TED Ankara College in Turkey.

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Contact

ankay@bau.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740 2700
PB-A 116
Paul-Bonatz-Straße 9-11