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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My PhD quest has been started since 2003. At the beginning, I was just
considered scientific progress. First question in my mind was How? What kind of
methodology was the best for scientific progress? These questions kept me busy and I
was continuously looking for answers. I gained extensive experience on planning of
experimental testing but I wish to improve way of scientific thinking on special topics. I
have to admit that most of my success on scientific research study belongs to only one
person, Prof. Dr. Mustafa GUDEN, who supports me most of the time and supplied
proper environment for conducting highly extensive scientific work of mine. Without
his patience, guidance and friendship, I could have lost both my desire on scientific
education and all the way to end of the PhD journey.
I would like to thank TUBITAK research project 106M186 for financial support
to this PhD study. Further, I would like thank stuff of central mechanical atelier for their
helps on sample preparing and further mechanical processing during the experimental
procedure of the study.
Lastly, and in my heart the most important, I would express my feelings to my
wife, Sultan Eylem TOKSOY. Most of the time, she supplied warm and full of
tranquility environment at home. Without her love and emotional support, this thesis
would have never been reality. She gave me a special gift during the completion of my
doctoral thesis, my son Efe. I would also dedicate part of the success to my lovely child.
I believe that a wonderful life waits us.