GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS I/5751308

Course Title:	ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS I
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Course Semester	1	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

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-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Strengthen the soil mechanics knowledge background
Teaching the fundamental methods for analysis and design, in the civil engineering problems related to soil mechanics.
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Introduction
2. Week	Index and classification properties of soils
3. Week	Geology, landforms and the origin of geomaterials
4. Week	Clay minerlas, soil structures
5. Week	Compaction and stabilization of soils
6. Week	1st Midterm
7. Week	Capillarity, Ground water table, vadose zone
8. Week	Shrinkage and Swelling
9. Week	Frost Action
10. Week	Effective Stress
11. Week	Lateral Earth Pressures
12. Week	In-situ tests
13. Week	In-situ tests
14. Week	In-situ tests
15. Week	In-situ tests
16. Week	-

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	60
Assignment	12	30
Application	0	0
Projects	1	10
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	15	3	45
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	15	3	45
Searching in Internet and Library	12	2	24
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing	6	6	36
Preparing a Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	1	15	15
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	20	20
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			185
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.4
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. Sami Oguzhan Akbas)

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

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-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(soakbas@gazi.edu.tr)

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