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COURSE DESCRIPTION

SOIL-BEARING CAPACITY FOR SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS/5041332

Course Title:	SOIL-BEARING CAPACITY FOR SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Course Semester	1	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Foundation engineering terms, Soil report, evaluation of field and laboratory experiments,
2.General information about the shallow foundation and design
3.Terzaghi bearing capacity theory
4.General bearing capacity Methods (Meyerhof, Vesic, etc.),
5.Bearing capacity calculation with SPT test result,
6.Bearing capacity at the mat foundations,
7.Bearing capacity calculation of the Eccentrically Loaded Foundations,
8. Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations: Special Cases,
9. Bearing capacity of layered soils,

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	1.Introduction, Geotechnical investigation and explorations
2. Week	2.Soil investigations and drilling,
3. Week	3.Drilling logs and soil report evaluation,
4. Week	4.Field and laboratory test methods,
5. Week	5. Shallow Foundations Bearing Capacity,
6. Week	6.The Terzaghi Bearing Capacity Theory,
7. Week	7.General bearing capacity equations,
8. Week	8.Midterm Exam. Vesic, Hansen and so on. Equalities
9. Week	9. Bearing Capacity based on field tests (SPT)
10. Week	10. Eccentrically Loaded Foundations,
11. Week	11. Mat Foundation,
12. Week	12. In special cases, the bearing capacity,
13. Week	13. In special cases, the bearing capacity,
14. Week	14. Bearing capacity of layered soils,
15. Week	15. Final Exam.
16. Week

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	50
Assignment	1	50
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	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	12	1	12
Searching in Internet and Library	12	2	24
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing	4	6	24
Preparing a Presentation	2	6	12
Presentation	2	6	12
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	1	10	10
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	10	10
Other (should be emphasized)	6	9	54
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			200
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			8
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
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2					X
3					X
4					X
5					X
6					X
7					X
8					X
9					X
10				X
11				X
12					X
13				X
14				X
15					X

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. Mehmet ORHAN)

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

(http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/orhanm)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(orhanm@gazi.edu.tr)

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