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Course Name	Turkish	Zeminlerin Mühendislik Özellikleri
	English	Enginering Properties of Soils
Course Code	ZMG 507E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mustafa Hatipoğlu
Course Objectives		1. Basic principles Soil Mechanics and fundamentals of their usage in engineering problems 2. Engineering properties of soils and the definition of the factors controlling these properties 3. Identifying the situations where soil is a factor in engineering and environmental problems. Developing skills and providing technical proficiency in understanding the usage of necessary parameters and their limits for the solutions these problems.
Course Description		Introduction; Soil Composition & Texture; Soil Classification & Index Properties; Soil Sampling & Disturbance; Compaction & Factors Controlling Compaction; Flow of Water in Soils, Permeability; Consolidation; Theory of Consolidation; Consolidation & Settlement; Stress-Strain Behavior of Soils; Shear Strength of Soils; Evaluation of Site Conditions.
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