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Course Name	Turkish	Zemin Dinamiği
	English	Soil Dynamics
Course Code	ZMG 510E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Mehmet Barış Can Ülker
Course Objectives		This course is an introduction to dynamics of soils within the context of discrete and continuous systems. The main objective of this course is to understand the basic principles of dynamic properties of soils under dynamic excitations and specifically under seismic motions. Dynamics of both elemental level soils and system level soil layers are covered. In addition, local site conditions and instability of soil media due to earthquake excitations such as liquefaction are among the most crucial parts conveyed to the students in this course. This course is also designed to provide an introduction to computational dynamics with application to soildynamics. These include foundation vibration, dynamic soil structure interaction, seismic ground motion, dynamic response of soil sites, and soil liquefaction.
Course Description		This course covers the investigation of the dynamic behavior of soils and their effects on wave properties and soils under the influence of strong ground motion and earthquake.
Course Outcomes		In this course, the students are expected to learn: (i) Basic Analytical / Computational Dynamics (ii) Dynamics of Discrete (SDOF & MDOF) systems (iii) Dynamics of Continuous system (Wave Propagation) (iv) Earthquakes and Seismic Hazards (v) Strong Ground Motion Characteristics (vi) Dynamic Response Analysis (vii) Effect of Local Site Conditions and Design Ground Motion (viii) Soil Liquefaction (ix) Foundation Vibration Analysis (x) Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction
Pre-requisite(s)		Graduate Standing
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Textbook		Das, B.M. and Ramana, G.V., Principles of Soil Dynamics, CL Engineering; 2. Edn,2010 · Kramer, S.L., Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, by, Prentice Hall Publishing Inc., 1996 · Prakash, S., Soil Dynamics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981 · Ishihara, K., Soil Behavior in Earthquake Engineering, Clarendon Press, 1996 · Rahman, M.S. and Ülker, M.B.C. (2018), “Modeling and Computing for Geotechnical Engineering: An Introduction”, CRC Press Science Publishing, FL.
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