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Course Name	Turkish	Maden. ve Tünellerde Kazı Mek.
	English	Mechanization in Mining and Tunneling Excavations
Course Code	MAD 432	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	8	-	2	-	1
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Hanifi Çopur
Course Objectives		1. Basic principles of mine and tunnel mechanization 2. Application areas of different mechanical miners and mechanical miner selection 3. Performance prediction methods for different mechanical miners
Course Description		Mechanization pre-requirements for mines and tunnels, planning. Site investigations and applied laboratory. Conventional tunneling method (NATM), impact hammers, flexible support systems. Cutters, cutting mechanics, specific energy, performance prediction. Continuous miners, ploughs, shearers, roadheaders. Mechanization of longwall, shortwall, room and pillar, metallic mines. TBMs, EPB TBMs, SPB TBMs, microtunneling methods. Backup equipment. Shaft and raise boring machines. Mechanization of metro excavations. Latest developments and applications in mechanical excavation for mining and tunnelling.
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