CIRRICULUM VITAE

March 2017

Bahtiyar ÜNVER

Professor of Mining Engineering

The Department of Mining Engineering

Hacettepe University

Beytepe Ankara, 06800 TURKEY

Phone +90 312 7807696

Email: unver@hacettepe.edu.tr

URL: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~unver/

QUALIFICATIONS

Academic Qualifications:

1985-1988             PhD in Mining Engineering

                              Thesis Title: Closure Around Longwall Access Roadways

The University of Nottingham, The Department of Mining Engineering,

Thesis Supervisor: Professor Raghu N. Singh

1979-1984             BSc in Mining Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey

Experience:

Professor Ünver has more than 30 years of experience in working in industry, academic research, teaching and consulting to mining industry. His principal expertise and research interests lie in coal mine design, strata control and numerical modelling in mining and tunneling.

EMPLOYMENT

Academic:

2002-present         Professor, Mining Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara

1997-2002             Associate Professor, Mining Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara

1993-1997             Assistant Professor, Mining Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara

1984-1985             Research Assistant, Mining Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Industrial:

1988-1989             Researcher, Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises(TTK) Armutcuk Mine Rehabilitation Project. Project was carried out with the cooperation of CdFI (French Coal Board), Turkey.

1990-1993 Mine Production Engineer, Eynez Colliery of Aegean Lignite's, of Turkish Coal Enterprises, Soma, Manisa, Turkey.

INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2015-2016 Dean, Engineering Faculty, Hacettepe University, Turkey

2014-2015             Academic Consultant, Soma Mine Accident Investigation Commission, The Grand National Assembly of Turkey

2006- Chairman, Mining Division, Department of Mining Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara

2005-2008 Deputy Dean, Engineering Faculty, Hacettepe University, Turkey

2006-2012             Establishing Member of Executive Board, Hacettepe Teknopolis Inc., Turkey

2002-2005 Chairman, Department of Mining Engineering, Hacettepe University, Turkey

2007-2012             Committee Member,  The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Engineering Research Group (MAG)

2000 - 2003           General Secretary, Member of Board, Turkish National Society for Rock Mechanics

1998 - 1998           Visiting Scientist, DAAD, Institut fur Bergbaukunde 1, RWTH-

                              Aachen, Germany

1996 - 1998           Member of Board, The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Rock Mechanics, Mine Design, Mineral Reserve Estimation, Tunneling and Support Design

PROFESIONAL MEMBERSHIP

International Society for Rock Mechanics, Member

The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, Member

Turkish National Society for Rock Mechanics, Member

THESES SUPERVISED

17 MSc, 5 PhD

RESEARCH

Research Funding

1. Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as co PIs), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise; Lower calorific value estimation of Igdekuzu (Turkey) coal project, 2016 (US$ 25,000)

2. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with 5 other co PIs), General Directorate of Eti Mine Works; Resource estimation of Kizilcaoren (Turkey) REE project, 2013-2014 (US$ 45,000)

3. Co-Principal investigator (with 5 other co PIs), Electricity Generation Company; Resource estimation of Karapınar and Pinarca-Hallacli (Turkey) coal projects, 2013-2014 (US$ 123,000)

4. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as co PIs), Ziraat Bank; Technological and Financial Monitoring for Gordes (Turkey) Nickel and Cobalt Project; 2012-2013 (US$ 95,000)

5. Principal investigator, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise and NETCAD; Sofware development for mine planning and production optimization, 2009-2012 (US$ 605,000).

6. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with M.A. Hindistan), Excavation of Support Design of Gallery Type Underground Explosive Magazine at İliç Gold Mine, Anagold, Alacer Gold, 2012 (US$ 20,000)

7. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with 5 other co PIs), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise, Resource estimation and conceptual study of Tuncbilek-Omerler (Turkey) coal project, 2010-2011 (US$ 70,000)

8. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with 5 other co PIs), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise; Resource estimation and conceptual study of Soma-Eynez (Turkey) coal project, 2010-2011 (US$ 70,000)

9. Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as co PIs), Global Machine Electricity Industry and Trade Inc.; Resource estimation of Tqvarchel (Abkhazia) coal project, 2010-2011 (US$ 30,000)

10. Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as Co PIs), Meta Nickel, Cobalt Mining Industry and Trade Inc.; Resource Estimation of Turkmencardagi (Turkey) Lateritic Nickel Project, 2009 (US$ 20,000)

11. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with A.E Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as Co PIs), Meta Nickel, Cobalt Mining Industry and Trade Inc.; Resource Estimation of Gordes (Turkey) Lateritic Nickel Project, 2009 (US$ 20,000)

12. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator, General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise; Resource estimation of Tufanbeyli (Turkey) coal project, 2007-2008 (US$ 8,000)

13. Principal investigator (with 5 other Co PIs), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise; Resource estimation of Saray (Turkey) coal project, 2007-2008

14. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with 5 other Co PIs), General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprise, Resource estimation of Seyitomer (Turkey) coal project, 2007-2008

15. Technical report on the reserve and production method at Meselik Chromite Mine, 2008,

16. Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as Co PIs), Estimation of calorific value of run off mine coal and optimimization of production schedule  at Tuncbilek Buyukduz Colliery, Park Energy, 2008

17. Report on rehabilitation of Saqnaksiri Tkibuli Coal Mines, G-Energy Georgia,  2007

18. Project Coordinator and Principal investigator (with A.E. Tercan and M.A. Hindistan as Co PIs), Reserve estimation and 3D modelling of Malkara Coal Basin,  Pullukcu Co, 2007

19. Orebody modeling and production planning of Tavas Manganese Mine by using Surpac Software, ERDEMİR, Iron and Steel Works, 2007

20. Design of 75 ton Capacity Underground Explosive Magazine for SENBAY Co., Private Project, July, 2003.

21. Determination of Optimum Production Methods for Soma and Tunçbilek Thick Coal Seam Districts” The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) MISAG Project, 2003.

22. Numerical Simulation of Longwall with Top Coal Caving Production Method Applied at Thick Coal Seams, Research Fund, No: 0002602009, Hacettepe University, 2002.

23. Design of underground excavations opened in volcanic rocks for storage purposes, Research Fund, No: 98.01.602007, Hacettepe University, 2001.

24. Development and performance evaluation of plastic water stemming cartridges for underground blasting operations, Project No: 96K120880 Turkish State Planning Organisation (DPT), 1997    

25. An investigation into in situ and laboratory strength determination of monolithic packing materials. The project was carried out for British Coal with special contributions of Blue Circle Cement Company, Pozzament Company and Thyssen Company, England 1988.

26. Determination of index rock properties to improve the efficiency of road headers and tunnelling equipment. The project was carried out for Dosco Company, England 1988.

27. Determination of the susceptibility of the Minestones to spontaneous combustion project for British Coal, Minestones service, 1987. a project report was presented to British Coal, England

28. Sawability and drillability of various rocks concerning techniques of rock cutting and statistical analysis of the test results. Project was carried out for De Beers International and a report was presented, 1987. England

29. Assessment and planning of the ground preparation for a Nuclear Power Plant site at Akkuyu, Mersin, Turkey, for State Electrical Projects Planning and Design Institute (EIE), 1984 Turkey

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PUBLICATIONS

Books, Book Chapters

1.  E. Unal, B. Unver and A.E. Tercan, (2001), The Proceedings of 17th International Mining Congress of Turkey (IMCET 2001), published by The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, Ankara, ISBN: 975-395-417-4, 876 pp.

Principal publications of the last five years

E. Degerli and B. Unver (2002), “Evaluation of Dust Dispersion in Open Pit Mines by a Computer Program”, Bulletin of Chamber of Turkish Mining Engineers, Vol:41, No:3, pp. 3-17, (in Turkish with English Abstract).

B. Unver and C. Agan (2003), “Application of Heat Transfer Analysis for Frozen Food Storage Caverns”, Tunnelling and Undergroud Space Technology, 18, pp.7-17.

B. Unver (2003), “Supporting and Transportation in Mines”,  A Seminar on Miners’ Health and Safety, 28-30 April, ISBN: 975-395-597-9, pp. 181-191. (in Turkish)

N.E. Yaşıtlı and B. Unver, (2005), 3-D numerical modeling of longwall with top coal caving, Int. J. of Roch Mech. and Min. Sci., 42, (2), 219-235.

A.E. Tercan, B. Unver, B. Tiryaki, D. Ozbilgin (2005), "A Study of Relationships Among Mechanical, Index and Petrographic Properties of Some Sandstones Using Canonical Correlation Analysis ", Madencilik 44, 1, 3-14 (in Turkish)

N.E. Yaşıtlı and B. Unver., (2005), 3-D numerical modelling of stresses around a longwall panel with top coal caving, Journal ff The South African Institute Of Mining And Metallurgy 105 (5): 287-300.

B. Unver and N.E. Yasitli, (2006), Modelling of strata movement with a special reference to caving mechanism in thick seam coal mining, International Journal of Coal Geology, 66 (4): 227-352.

 KEÇİK Defne, Sevi Burçak, Çehreli, Çağla Şar  and  Bahtiyar Ünver, “Effect of Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride and Casein Phosphopeptide–Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Application on Shear Bond Strength of Orthodontic Brackets”, The Angle Orthodontist Volume 78, Issue 1 (January 2008) 129-134

Tercan, A.E. (Prof.Dr.), Anaç, S., Ak, S., Ünver, B. (Prof.Dr.), Hindistan, M.A. (Yard.Doç.Dr.), Gazel, S. and Ulaş, H., 2009,  “NETPRO/Mine; An Integrated Resource Modelling, Mine Design and Automation Software”, 3rd Balkan Mining Congress, İzmir, Turkey, 01-03 October 2009, Proc. of BALKANMINE 2009, pp.443-448,.

Hasanpour, R., Choupani, N., Hindistan, M.A. (Yard.Doç.Dr.) and Ünver, B. (Prof.Dr.), 2010, “Numerical study of dimensions effects on measurement of rock fracture characterizations by using the modified Arcan test specimen”, Symp. on Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering – Zhao, Labiouse, Dudt & Mathier (eds.), Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-18 June 2010, Proc. of EUROCK 2010, Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-58654-2, pp.259-262.

Ünver, B. (Prof.Dr.), Hasanpour, R., Chakeri, H. and Hindistan, M.A. (Yard.Doç.Dr.), 2010, “Preliminary 3D numerical modeling of a hypothetical LNG storage cavern having an irregular geometry”, Symp. on Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering – Zhao, Labiouse, Dudt & Mathier (eds.), Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-18 June 2010, Proc. of EUROCK 2010, Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-58654-2, pp.721-724.

N. Tiryaki & D.J. Williams, H. Alehossein, B. Unver “Numerical modelling of indenter/rock interaction under various indenter profiles”, Symp. on Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering – Zhao, Labiouse, Dudt & Mathier (eds.), Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-18 June 2010, Proc. of EUROCK 2010, Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-58654-2

Pusman E, Cehreli ZC, Altay N, Unver B, Saracbasi O, Ozgun G, (2010) “Fracture resistance of tooth fragment reattachment: effects of different preparation techniques and adhesive materials” Dental Traumatology, Volume: 26   Issue: 1   Pages: 9-15

Hindistan, M.A. (Yard.Doç.Dr.), Tercan, A.E. (Prof.Dr.) and Ünver, B. (Prof.Dr.), 2010. “Geostatistical coal quality control in longwall mining”, Int. J. of Coal Geology, v.81, pp.139-150.

Yaşıtlı NE, Bayram F, Unver B, OzcelikY.(2011) “Predicting the rock material properties by numerical modeling software of PFC3D operated based on discrete element method Proceedings of the 22nd International Mining Conference of Turkey, Ankara;11–13 May pp.95–102.

N.E. Yaşıtlı, F.Bayram, B.Unver, Y.Özçelik, 2012, “Numerical modelling of circular sawing system using discrete element method”, Int. J. of Rock Mech. and Min. Sci., 55, 86-96.

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

1. F. Atalay, A.E. Tercan, (2017), "Coal Resource Estimation Using Gaussian Copula", International Journal of Coal Geology, under journal review

2. Y. Özcelik, A.E. Tercan, E. Yılmazkaya, (2016), "Assessment of Surface Quality of Stone Treated by Water Jet and Bush Hammering using Geostatitistical Simulations ", Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 44, 6, 2164-2171

3. F.I. Siddiqui, A. Pathan, B. Unver, A.E. Tercan, M.A. Hindistan, G. Ertunç, F. Atalay, S. Unal, Y. Kıllıoğlu, (2015), "Lignite Resource Estimations and Seam Modeling of Thar Field, Pakistan", International Journal of Coal Geology, 140, 84-96