COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED ROCK MECHANICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5026 ADVANCED ROCK MECHANICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AHMET HAKAN ONUR

Offered to

Mining Operation
Mining Operation
Mining Operation

Course Objective

The advanced rock mechanic science has been dominated by the developments of controlling mechanism in stability of sliding of discontinuities. The development of computational methods for design in rock such as numerical methods for support, reinforcement design and discussion of several case studies will be studied during lecture. Several important solutions for zone of influence of excavations will be revised to provide a basic for engineering judgement.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   This course is expected to help the graduate students to develop a way to understand mechanical behaviour of rock.
2   To develop the students mathematical modelling abilities and built a simple ability to organize experiments on rock mechanics
3   To give the students ability to understand how to design engineering constructions both surface and underground mining.
4   To gain ability to apply mathematical modelling techniques and computer applications on mining projects
5   To have ability to write and present a report on mine projects

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of special rock mechanics, a revision of the basic principles of rock mechanics. Stress and infinitesimal strain, principal stresses and stress invariants, stress transformation.
2 Stress-strain relations, geomechanics convention for displacement, strain and stress, graphical representation of biaxial stress.
3 Rock mass structure, major types of structural features, and important geomechanical properties of discontinuities collecting structural data.
4 The hemispherical projection, rock mass classification, presentation of structural data, Rock strength and deformability, behaviours of rock under isotropic stress distribution, shear behaviour of discontinuous rock masses. Laboratory work
5 Methods of stress analysis, analytical methods for mine design principles of classical stress analysis, computational methods of stress analysis.
6 1. st mid-term exam
7 The boundary element method, the distinct element method, the finite element methods, linked computational schemes.
8 Excavation design methodology, zone of influence of an excavation, effect of planes of weakness on elastic stress distribution.
9 Excavation shape and boundary stresses, support and reinforcement of massive rocks, excavation design in stratified rock, rock mass response to mining and roof bed deformation mechanics, roof design procedure for plane strain and roof design for square- rectangular excavation.
10 2. nd mid-term exam
11 Mining methods and method selections and mining excavations, rock mass response to stopping activity.
12 Ore body properties influencing mining method, underground mining methods and method selection, naturally and artificially supported mining methods.
13 Slope stability in open pit mining, role of slope stability in open pit mining, geological factors controlling slope stability in open pit mines. Streonet analysis of discontinuities and their use in slope stability, methods of analysing the rock slope stability, plain failure, wedge failure and circular failure analytical methods.
14 In class presentation of homework and projects

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Brady, H., G. and Brown, E., T., 1993; `RocK Mechanics For Underground Mining , Canbridge.
2. Goodman, R., E., 1989; `Rock Mechanics New York
3. Browner, C., O., Milligan, V., 1971, `Stability in Open Pit Mining , SME Proceedings of the First International Conference on Stability in Open Pit Mining, New York.
4. Cummins, B., A. and given, ı., A., 1973; `Mining Engineering Handbook , Volume 1, SME, Port City Press, Baltimore
5. Tanrıverdi, I., 1970; `Kaya Mekaniği ve Inşaat Işlerinde Tatbikatı , Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lesson will be thought by visual teaching technique and classroom discussions. Homework will be giving to provide better understanding, computer applications will be made during the course.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

CLO1, CLO2, Laboratory work
CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 4 Mid-term Exams
CLO3 ,CLO4, CLO5, Homework Assignments
CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4, CLO5 Final Exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ahmet.onur@deu.edu.tr / office phone: (232) 3017501

Office Hours

Wensday at 15:00-17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Tutorials 2 4 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparation for midterm exam 2 15 30
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Midterm 2 3 6
Quiz etc. 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1242
LO.24134
LO.3352
LO.43245
LO.5532

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