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JFZL7251Geophysics in Soil (Ground) ? Structure Interaction 3+0+0ECTS:7.5
Year / SemesterFall Semester
Level of CourseThird Cycle
Status Elective
DepartmentDEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING
Prerequisites and co-requisitesNone
Mode of Delivery
Contact Hours14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week
LecturerDoç. Dr. Ali Erden BABACAN
Co-LecturerNone
Language of instructionTurkish
Professional practise ( internship ) None
 
The aim of the course:
To teach the parameters represent Soil (Ground)- Interaction and how obtaining of these parameters through geophysical methods
 
Programme OutcomesCTPOTOA
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to :
PO - 1 : know Soil (Ground)- Interaction parameters2,41,5,
PO - 2 : know how geophysics will be used to obtain these parameters2,41,5,
CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome

 
Contents of the Course
Philosophy of joint inversion, structural and petro-physical joint inversion, sequenced and simultaneous joint inversion, joint interpretation, local and global methods, regularization and constraints, SVD method, weighting matrices, data variance, sensitivity analyses, composing of joint kernel, data fittings, parameter normalization, uncertainty of joint results and presentation, Matlab applications
 
Course Syllabus
 WeekSubjectRelated Notes / Files
 Week 1Complex nature of shallow sub-surface
 Week 2Importance of local soil conditions ? Case analysis
 Week 3Natural and Artificial shakes
 Week 4Hazard and risk, and differences
 Week 5Hazards of soil-structure interaction, general problems
 Week 6Seismic methods (tomography and surface waves), elastic parameters
 Week 7Mikrotremor method, single and multiple data acquisition
 Week 8Resistivity tomography method, data acquisition and evaluation
 Week 9Mid-term exam
 Week 10What is the soil amplification, using of geophysical methods in modeling it
 Week 11What is the resonance, using of geophysical methods to obtain it
 Week 12What is the liquefaction, using of geophysical methods to obtain it
 Week 13What is the landslide, using of geophysical methods to obtain it
 Week 14Geophysical data evaluation through a case analysis
 Week 15Presentations of students
 Week 16End-of-term exam
 
Textbook / Material
1Ishihara, K., 1996, Soil Behaviour in Earthquake Geotecnihcs, Clarendon Press, Oxford
2National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2012, Soil-Structure Interaction for Building Structures, NIST GCR 12-917-21
3Kramer, S.L, 2003, Geoteknik Deprem Mühendisliği, Gazi Kitabevi
 
Recommended Reading
1Everett, M.E, 2013, Near-Surface Applied Geophysics, Cambridge Uni. Press
 
Method of Assessment
Type of assessmentWeek NoDate

Duration (hours)Weight (%)
Mid-term exam 9 1 30
Presentation 15 1 20
End-of-term exam 16 2 50
 
Student Work Load and its Distribution
Type of workDuration (hours pw)

No of weeks / Number of activity

Hours in total per term
Yüz yüze eğitim 3 14 42
Sınıf dışı çalışma 7 14 98
Arasınav için hazırlık 10 1 10
Arasınav 1 1 1
Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık 15 2 30
Dönem sonu sınavı 1 2 2
Total work load183