GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

FRACTURE OF CONCRETE/5521308

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Application of fracture mechanics in structural design
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Why fracture mechanics?
2. Week	Essentials of linear elastic fracture mechanics,
3. Week	Determine the parameters of linear elastic fracture mechanics,
4. Week	Stress intensity factor,
5. Week	Applications of LEFM to the concrete,
6. Week	Some examples for obtaining Lineer Elastic Fracture Mechanics parameters.
7. Week	I.Exam
8. Week	Nonlinear fracture mechanics,
9. Week	Approximate models of the nonlinear fracture mechanics,
10. Week	Brittleness of structures,
11. Week	Determine the parameters of fracture by experiments,
12. Week	Size effect,
13. Week	Application of dimension effect to concrete
14. Week	Application of dimension effect to concrete
15. Week	Application of fracture mechanics to concrete
16. Week	-

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	2	50
Assignment	0	0
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		60
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		40

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	12	3	36
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	12	2	24
Searching in Internet and Library	12	3	36
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing	2	6	12
Preparing a Presentation	12	2	24
Presentation	1	6	6
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	12	3	36
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	5	5
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			179
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.16
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Öğr. Gör. Dr. Çağatay BELGİN)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

( websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/cmbelgin)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(cmbelgin@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University