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| ORM 337 | Forest Roads | 2+1+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Lab work , Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Saliha ÜNVER | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. H. Hulusi ACAR | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with applied knowledge on planning, projecting and construction works of forest road, one of the most important in infrasucturture forest construction, according to technical, economical and envitonmental featrures of forest ecosistem. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | comprahend the forest road planning and projecting procedure, | 1,2,3,6,8,9 | 1,2,4,6 | | LO - 2 : | describe the attributes of roads and road location within alternate harvesting systems | 1,4,8 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | discuss the suitability of different road construction methods and the cost efficiency | 4,8 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | realize road projecting in field exercise | 1,4,8 | 1,2,4,6 | | LO - 5 : | obtain abylity of prepearing and presentation independently of a project | 1,3,4,6,9 | 1 | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Introduction to principles of road planning and projecting, road location, surveying, design, cost estimation calculations, construction practices of forest roads, laboratory and field practices |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Fundamental principles of forest road planning and projecting | | | Week 2 | Vehicle numbers and density on forest roads, vehicle types and its features, speed concept, gradient concept | | | Week 3 | Horizontal and vertical curves on forest roads, special curves, across and turn back locations, road cut and fill glacis and glacis surface grarates | | | Week 4 | Fundamental principles of forest road route analysis and projecting on contour maps | | | Week 5 | Fundamental principles of constitutation zero line | | | Week 6 | Straightening of zero line, measuremets of road route, locating of curves | | | Week 7 | Constitution of vertical profile, plotting of horizontal profiles, cut and fill area and volue calculations | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Constitutaion of material profile and material removal table, road construction cost estimation calculation | | | Week 10 | Functional forest road network planning principles, forest road network plan cosntitutation | | | Week 11 | Environmental impact assesment of forest road construction works | | | Week 12 | Forest roads consrtuction awarding methods and work acceptance | | | Week 13 | Ground analysis (evaluation of the soil) according to uppersutructe of roads and road construction area | | | Week 14 | Forest road costruction and hydrolic costruction (bridges, culverts, pipe and walls) works, project quize | | | Week 15 | Forest roads maintanence and repair works | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Acar, H. H., 2005; Orman Yolları, KTÜ Yayınları, No: 82, Trabzon | | | |
| 1 | Erdaş, O., 1997; Orman Yolları I, KTÜ yayınları, No: 187, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 10/11/2016 | 0,7 | 30 | | Project | 1
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13 | 08/10/2016 | 1 | 10 | | Oral exam | 14 | 27/12/2016 | 2 | 10 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 13/01/2016 | 0,8 | 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 | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 7 | 14 | | Arasınav | .5 | 1 | .5 | | Uygulama | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Proje | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 6 | 18 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | .66 | 1 | .66 | | Total work load | | | 116.16 |
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