GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED FAUNDATION ENGINEERING/5091308
Course Title: ADVANCED FAUNDATION ENGINEERING
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
Transfer of knowledge on the planning, analysis, and design of shallow and deep foundations. Topics supporting course objectives include aspects of subsurface investigations, in-situ testing, factors of safety, margin of safety, reliability, and Load and Resistance Factor Design. Advances in foundat
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 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Site Investigation
2. Week  Estimation of Geotechnical Parameters for Foundation Design
3. Week  Shallow Foundations: Bearing Capacity and Settlement Analyses
4. Week  Shallow Foundations: Soil-Structure Interaction
5. Week  Shallow Foundations: Foundations on Rock
6. Week  Shallow Foundations: Design under Seismic Loads
7. Week  Midterm exam
8. Week  Deep Foundations: Advanced Bearing Capacity Analyses
9. Week  Deep Foundations: Elastic Analyses and Settlement
10. Week  Deep Foundations: Lateral Load Capacity
11. Week  Deep Foundations: Group Action,
12. Week  Rock Socketed Drilled Shafts
13. Week  Foundation Design under Uplift Forces
14. Week  Foundation Design and Construction on Collapsible and Expansive Soils
15. Week  Advanced topics on deep foundations
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 Oğuzhan AKBAŞ)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/soakbas)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (soakbas@gmail.com , soa1@cornell.edu)