Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Jeomekanik
	English	Geomechanics
Course Code	JEO 222E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	3	3	2	-	2
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Emin Çiftçi
Course Objectives		1. Mechanical behaviour and properties of rock and soil forming the earth crust 2. Failure and deformation processes in earth materials.
Course Description		Physical and Mechanical Properties of Rock Materials and Rock Mass Classification for Geotechnical Purposes. Preliminary Stress State and Origin of Natural stress in Earth Crust. Modes of Deformation and Failure in Earth Crust. Effects of Environment Condition on Deformation and Failure Mechanism. Index Properties of Rock and Soil. Explanation of Over-consolidation and Cementation Processes. Time Dependent Behavior. Anisotropy in Fractured Rock. Geotechnical Measurement and Monitoring Systems. Laboratory and In-situ Tests on Rock and Soil.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: I. Understanding natural and artifical geomechanical environments and behaviors in engineering processes. II. Strain and strees, clasification of natural stresses in earth crust. III. Failure criteria of rocks, analytical and graphical analyses of stress. IV. Index properties of rocks and classification of soils. V. Consistency and stiffness of soil. VI. Behavior of fractured rock, time dependent behavior of rock. VII. Effects of environmental conditions oin earth crust. VIII. Measurements and monitoring in rocks and soil. In-situ tests and evaluations.
Pre-requisite(s)		NONE
Required Facilities		Rock Mechanics Lab
Other		Computer Lab
Textbook		Elements of Crustal Geomechanics 1st Edition by François Henri Cornet
Other References		Jeomekanik Ders Notları – Prof. Dr. Mahir VARDAR – Yrd. Doç. Dr. Yılmaz MAHMUTOĞLU Yüzer, E., Vardar, M., 1992, Rock Mechanics, ITU Foundation Publication, (in Turkish). Önalp, A., 1982, Geo-technique for Civil Engineers , Volume I and II, KTU Publication (in Turkish). Rahn, P.H., 1994, Engineering Geology, Elsevier, N.Y., 589 p. Özaydın, K., 1989, Soil Mechanics, Maya Publication, (in Turkish). Wylilie, D.C., 1992, Foundations on Rock, Chapman and Hall, London. Hoek, E., Brown, E.T., (1980), Underground Excavations in Rock, The Inst. Of Mining and Metallurgy, London. Hoek, E., Kaiser, P.K., Bawden, W.F., (1995). Support of Underground Excavation in Hard Rock, A.A. Balkema, Roterdam, 215p.

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