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Course Name	Turkish	Zemin Mekaniği
	English	Soil Mechanics I
Course Code	INS 331E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	1	1
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Esra Ece Bayat
Course Objectives		1. To teach main principles of soil mechanics 2. To provide fundamentals for foundation engineering 3. To discuss the subjects of design and application of foundation engineering
Course Description		Physical and index properties of soils. Classification. Compaction, Hydraulic properties, capillarity, permeability, frost effect. Effective, neutral and total stress. Stress-strain relationships for soils. Stress distribution in soils. Consolidation. Shear strength.
Course Outcomes		Student, who passed the course satisfactorily can: 1. Learn the index and physical properties of soils 2. Classify soils 3. Get knowledge about the compaction of soils 4. Learn hydraulic properties and problems of the soils 5. Learn the concepts of effective, neutral (pore water pressures) and total stress of soils 6. Determine the stress strain relationships of soils 7. Find out the distribution of stresses in soil 8. Calculate the settlement of a structure 9. Determine the shear strength of a soil 10. Estimate the lateral earth pressures in soils
Pre-requisite(s)		MUK202/202E ve ya MUK204/204E minimum DD
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		1. Lecture Notes for INS331E by Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Ece Bayat 2. An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering. By Robert D.Holtz and William D.Kovacs, Thomas C. Sheahan, Pearson Prentice –Hall, 2011..
Other References		1. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, (2001), Braja M. Das, Thomson-Engineering; 5 edition ISBN: 053438742X3) 2. Soil Mechanics,T. William Lambe, Robert V. Whitman, John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition, ISBN: 0471511927 3. Lab Manuals: Ninova Page for INS 331E-CRN12563 (www.ninova.itu.edu.tr)

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