Dr. Ayhan Ince
Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
![Dr. Ayhan Ince](/etc/designs/concordia/resources/file.png?did=3727)
Education
2007-2012 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
2004-2006 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
Work Experience
2024-Present Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2024-2025 Visiting Professor, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Germany
2017-2024 Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2014-2017 Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, US
2003-2014 General Dynamics Land Systems- Canada
2001-2003 General Motors Defense, Canada
Research activities
Research Interests
computational modeling in fatigue and fracture, machine learning-based deformation and damage modeling, peridynamics-based damage approaches, short and long crack growth, multiaxial fatigue, very high cycle fatigue, spectrum fatigue, mechanics of metallic structures, finite element methods in structural mechanics applications
Teaching activities
MECH 6641 - Engineering Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue
MECH 6151 - Continuum Mechanics
MECH 390 - Mechanical Engineering Design Project
MECH 344 - Machine Element Design