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Course Name	Turkish	Temel Muhendisligi
	English	Foundation Engineering I
Course Code	INS 332E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	2	1	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Esra Ece Bayat
Course Objectives		Course Objectives : 1) To give a good knowledge about the main subjects of foundation engineering 2) To express the importance of foundation engineering in the scope of civil engineering by proper examples 3) To express the importance of professional know-how and background by several cases
Course Description		Course Content : Introduction to geotechnical engineering. Site investigation and in-situ soil tests; soil borings, soil sampling, inspection pits, inspection boreholes, in-situ tests performed during boring tests, dynamic and static penetration tests, permeability tests, Vane and pressuremeter tests. Slope Stability; natural slope stability, slope failures, preventing landslides, slope stability analysis methods. Retaining structures; earth pressures, gravity retaining structures, dimensioning and principles for calculations. Lateral earth pressure, sheet piles, dimensioning and principles for calculations. Shallow foundations; bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, factors affecting the shallow foundations bearing capacity, formulae for bearing capacity, allowable bearing capacity, applications. Deep foundations; designing deep foundations, pile types, pile design, caissons, footings. Bearing capacity of deep foundations, static pile bearing capacity formula, dynamic pile formula, pile load tests and soil improvement; soil improvement methods, compaction methods.
Course Outcomes		1) Learn why geotechnical engineering is needed 2) Learn what soil investigation and geotechnical report is and what are content of the report and how to prepare it. 3) Analyse the stability of a slope. Suggest improvement techniques for slope failures. 4) Calculate lateral earth pressures acting on a retaining structure 5) Design a retaining structure 6) Calculate the bearing capacity of a foundation base soil 7) Design a shallow foundation 8) Determine the deep foundation types and learn the design criterias of them 9) Suggest a proper technique for soil improvement. 10) Know compaction of fill deposits by proper techniques.
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Textbook		1. Lecture Notes for INS332E 2. Principles of Foundation Engineering, by Braja M. Das, SI Edition 7th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2010. (62.00 TL Pandora Kitabevi, İstiklal cad., Büyükparmakkapı sk. 8 Beyoğlu) 3. Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, by Robert D. Holtz, William D. Kovacs, Thomas C. Sheahan, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010. 4. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, by Braja M. Das, 6th Edition, Thomson Publishing, 2007.
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