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Course Name	Turkish	Geoteknik Deprem Mühendisliği'nde Modelleme ve Hesaplama
	English	Modeling and Computing in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Course Code	DEP 513	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Barış Can Ülker
Course Objectives		1. To provide students with state of the art analytical methods for analyzing geotechnical earthquake engineering systems 2. To introduce and make use of common numerical methods in geotechnical earthquake engineering to solve complex engineering problems 3. To make sure the students acquire knowledge to the approximate solution of the geotechnical earthquake engineering problems and present this in terms of various applications 4. To learn the earthquake-induced instabilities and be able to evaluate these
Course Description		The course mainly covers the mathematical and numerical modeling of soils and / or simple structural systems. Some of the relevant topics are: 1-Analytical Methods (Geotechnical applications to earthquake engineering and soil dynamics); 2-Introduction to Numerical Methods; a) Finite Element Method (Geotechnical applications to earthquake engineering); 3- Applications of FEM to Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Solution of 1-2 Dimensional Flow and Deformation Problem; 4) Constitutive Modeling and Soil Plasticity a) Theory, b) Numerical Modeling and Application to Soil Plasticity; 5-Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.
Course Outcomes		A successful learner from this program will be able to: 1. Develop analytical solutions to specific problems in geotechnical earthquake engineering. 2. Demonstrate a proper knowledge on choosing the correct numerical method in obtaining an approximate solution to a boundary value problem in this field. 3. Model physical systems in geotechnical earthquake engineering mathematically and obtain numerical approximate solutions to these systems. 4. Acquire knowledge for the physics behind the instabilities in geotechnical earthquake engineering and model the deformation and pore water pressure behavior.
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