Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mühendislik Sismolojisi
	English	Engineering Seismology
Course Code	DEP 501E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Beyza Taşkın
Course Objectives		1.Providing necessary information, knowledge and background to the civil engineers to be educated in this field for the earthquakes acting on structures in the important projects, 2.To provide engineers endowed with the fundamental terminology to understand the reports prepared by geologist and geophysicist, 3.To provide necessary knowledge how to prepare earthquake hazard map and main essentials of earthquake destructiveness for preparing codes, 4.Giving and providing important knowledge for selecting & using recorded and simulated accelerations.
Course Description		Earthquakes, Elastic rebound theory, Plate tectonics, Turkey’s tectonics and seismicity, Properties of earthquake waves, Wave propagation, Intensity and Magnitude, Faults and seismic moment relations, Properties of strong motion records, Response spectra, Derivation of tripartite design spectrum, Fourier amplitude spectrum, Microseismic instrumental intensities, Simulation and attenuation of strong ground motion, Seismic risk analysis, Hazard analysis, Earthquake codes, Earthquake Damages.
Course Outcomes		1.Whenever earthquakes occurr, with the source parameters, to decide whether that earthquake makes damages or not over the structures and what kind of damage expectation on the certain type of structures 2.Capability of intensity and damage distribution having proper knowledge about the subject. 3.If the earthquake strong ground motion acceleration records are available, to determine destructiveness of the record over the structures. or usage that record in the application of dynamic analysis design purpose calculating instrumental intensities and comparing the referenced accelerations in literature. 4.After the risk analysis, to construct design spectrum for certain region, for the important structure as a result
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities		None
Other
Textbook		Lecture notes will be provided to each student via NINOVA
Other References		?Lomnitz C and Rosenblueth E “Seismic Risk and Decision”, Elsevier Science Ltd., 1976. ?Newmark NM and Hall W J “Earthquake Spectra and Design”, EERI, 1982. ?Bolt BA “Earthquakes”, W. H. Freeman Publishers, 1988 (5th Edition in 2003) ?Lee WHK, Jennings P, Kisslinger C and Kanamori H “International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology”, Part A, Academic Press, 2002. ?Bozorgnia Y and Bertero VV “Earthquake Engineering”, Vol. I&II, CRC Press, 2004. ?ElNashai AS and DiSarno L “Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering”, Wiley, 2008.

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