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| JFZ4025 | Engineering Seismology | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Özgenç AKIN | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To understand the importance of seismology in terms of engineering. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Obtaining information about the seismological evaluation of engineering problems. | 2,3,4,5 | | | LO - 2 : | Understanding meaning of earthquake hazard and risk maps, based on the knowledge of Turkey's seismotectonics and seismicity. | 2,3,4,5 | | | LO - 3 : | Learning the behavior of buildings and soils in earthquakes. | 2,3,4,5 | | | LO - 4 : | Learning strong ground motion and to comprehend its importance in earthquake resistant building design. | 2,3,4,5 | | | 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 Engineering Seismology. Basic parameters of earthquakes. Earthquake damages. Properties of seismic and viscoelastic waves. Vibrations of ground and structures. Importance of strong ground motion in engineering. Accelerometers and recordings of strong ground motion. Analysis and interpretations of strong ground motion recordings. Spectrums in strong ground motion and their purpose of use in engineering. Evaluation and interpretation of strong ground motion attenuation relations. Ground motion intensity indices. Modeling of strong ground motion ( Earthquake source parameters, time and frequency characteristics of strong ground motion). Statistical methods in strong ground motion modeling. Ground response analysis. Local site effects and design ground motions. Engineering interpretations of seismic risk and hazard. Soil liquefaction. Seismic hazard mitigation studies. Structural health monitoring using seismological methods. Seismic vulnerability studies. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Seismicity and Tectonics of Turkey. | | | Week 2 | General effects of earthquakes and its structural damages. | | | Week 3 | Main principles of site selection. | | | Week 4 | Earthquake intensity variations depending on local geology and depth of water table. | | | Week 5 | Soil amplification. | | | Week 6 | Amplitude, duration and spectral parameters of strong ground motion. | | | Week 7 | Strong ground motion damage indices. | | | Week 8 | Mid term exam. | | | Week 9 | An importance of Acceleration recordings and calculation of true ground motion from these recordings. | | | Week 10 | An interpretation of Earthquake acceleration recordings in time and frequency domain. | | | Week 11 | Calculation and interpretation of displacement, velocity, and acceleration response spectra. | | | Week 12 | Seismic hazard and ground response analyses. | | | Week 13 | Importance of Seismic vulnerability and microzonation in Engineering Seismology. | | | Week 14 | Seismic mitigation, earthquake codes.Rijit bina temellerinin deprem anında yaptığı hareketler, Zeminlerin ve yapıların titreşimi. | | | Week 15 | Soil-structure interaction and soil liquefaction. | | | Week 16 | Final exam. | | | |
| 1 | Yilmaz, Ö. (2015). Engineering seismology with applications to geotechnical engineering. society of exploration geophysicists. https://doi.org/10.1190/1.9781560803300 | | | 2 | Deprem Bilimi, BÜYÜKSARAÇ A., SAYIL N. L. , BEKTAŞ Ö., AKIN Ö., Gazi, Ankara, 2018 | | | 3 | STEIN, S. and WYSESSION, M., SİSMOLOJİYE GİRİŞ, DEPREMLER VE YERİN YAPISI, ÇEVİREN DOÇ. DR. SERKAN ÖZTÜRK, TMMOB Jeofizik Mühendisleri Odası, Ankara, 2016. | | | 4 | Doyle, H., Sismoloji, Çeviri: Feyza AKKOYUNLU, Chichester: Wiley, 1995. | | | |
| 1 | Kanai,K., 1983, Engineering Seismology, Univ. of Tokyo Press | | | 2 | Ercan, A., Kıran (Afet) Bölgelerinde Yer Araştırma Yöntemleri, TMMOB Jeofizik Mühendisleri Odası, Ankara, 2001. | | | 3 | Sayıl, N., ZEMİN ARAŞTIRMALARINDA MİKROTREMORLARIN KULLANIMI VE ARAZİ UGULAMASI, TMMOB Jeofizik Mühendisleri Odası, Ankara, 2015. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 24.11.2021 | 2 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 15 | 19.01.2022 | 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 | 2 | 15 | 30 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 6 | 4 | 24 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 7 | 3 | 21 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 15 | 3 | 45 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 144 |
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