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| INS7562 | Earth Pressures and Retaining Structure | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of CIVIL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sabriye Banu İKİZLER | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To desing retaining structures such as gravity retaining structures, cantilevers walls etc. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | understand the meaning and concepts of tension and compression stresses for soils. | 1,2,5 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | see the differences of compression stresses depens upon soil types. | 1,2,5 | 1,3 | | PO - 3 : | determine the prenciples and requirements on the design of retaining structures. | 1,2,5 | 1,3 | | PO - 4 : | design different types of retaining structures. | 1,2,5 | 1,3 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| General discussion, Stress state of soils. Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria. Effective stress. Sress-strain relationship. Shear stresses of cohesive and cohesionless soils. Earth pressures due to granular soil, Earth pressures due to cohesive soil, Stability and foundations of retaining structures, Design principles and requirements, Solid gravity walls: semigravity, cantilever wall. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Stress state of soils. Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria. Effective stress. | | | Week 2 | Sress-strain relationship. Shear stresses of cohesive and cohesionless soils.
| | | Week 3 | Lateral earth pressures due to granular soil | | | Week 4 | Lateral earth pressures due to cohesive soil | | | Week 5 | Lateral earth pressures-Rankine Theory | | | Week 6 | Lateral earth pressures-Coulomb Theory | | | Week 7 | Retaining structure design | | | Week 8 | Retaining structure design verifications | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Design principles and requirements | | | Week 11 | Design principles and requirements (Cont.) | | | Week 12 | Solid gravity walls | | | Week 13 | Reinforced Retaining Walls | | | Week 14 | Example application (Static State) | | | Week 15 | Example application (Static State) | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | JB.M.Das(1998) Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, PWS Publishing( ISBN 0-534-95179-1) | | | |
| 1 | Uzuner, B.A.,2005, Temel Zemin Mekaniği, Derya Kitabevi, 6. Baskı, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 04/04/2016 | 2 | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 02/06/2016 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 7 | 14 | 98 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 1 | 4 | 4 | | Uygulama | 3 | 11 | 33 | | Total work load | | | 177 |
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