COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MINING EXPLORATION AND DRILLING TECHNIQUES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDT 2006 MINING EXPLORATION AND DRILLING TECHNIQUES COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Mining Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VEHBI ÖZACAR

Offered to

Mining Technology
Mining Technology

Course Objective

The aim of this course is teaching the drilling machines, drilling equipments, shaft tests and drilling mud.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   May define the basic concepts of the foundation drilling.
2   May specify the all properties of the foundation drilling tool series.
3   May run the foundation drilling machine.
4   May apply the drilling works about ground survey.
5   May sort the features of drilling mud which is used in foundation drilling
6   May program the relevant foundation drilling.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction the core drilling technique
2 General properties and units of core drilling machine
3 The units and working principle of drilling machines
4 The standards for core drilling
5 The ancillary equipments and tool series for core drilling
6 Rod and their properties
7 Mid-term exam+general review
8 Barrels, barrel varieties and their working principles, Protkorons and kecirs
9 Properties of the bit diamonds
10 Bits and classification of bits
11 Casing and their application areas
12 Properties of wire-line, wire-line varieties and their working principles
13 Wire-line barrels
14 The other equipments which are used and applied in core drilling

Recomended or Required Reading

Main book: Özbayoğlu Y. 1983. Elmaslı Sondaj Tekniği El Kitabı.
Other books: Şimşek C. 2010. Zemin-Maden Sondajcılığı ders notları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This lecture is going to make with theoretical courses in class, laboratory works and field trips. Instructor is going to teach the lessons with slide shows, create a discussion area with question and answer method with students and make laboratory works on specific subjects.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRC PRACTICE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

I. Mid-term exam %50: Assessment of the theoretical information.
II. Final Exam %50: Assessment of the all learning outcomes.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

vevhbi.ozacar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 15:30-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Lectures 1 1 1
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 14 14
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 51

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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