COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EARTH WORKS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4285 EARTH WORKS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI TOPAL

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

The course will provide methodologies and applications for the preparation of construction areas before the

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Earthworks types, the stages of the earthworks and to classify the soils.
2   To recognize required working machines and their properties for earthworks
3   Efficiency of earthwork machines and specify the factors with main lines that affect the efficiency
4   To select the appropriate working machine type which is suitable for excavation,
5   To calculate road cross-sections area, the volume of excavation and filling
6   To decide soil distribution with Bruckner's diagram
7   To indicate productivity and organization with main lines in earthworks construction sites.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General introduction of earth works, the stages of earth works, types of earth works.
2 The types and properties of soil in earth works, soil types in earth works, swelling and settling of soils, the compaction of embankments, the degree of compaction, the calculation methods of width and height related to embankments.
3 Road transport infrastructure, definitions and operations
4 The earth works in highway engineering, the application of the alignment to the land.
5 Construction machines used in earthworks and efficiency calculations
6 Excavation methods and the general evaluation of excavation works.
7 The types of explosives used in earth works, excavation by TBM, difficulties encountered in earthworks
8 The material selection for filling purposes, compaction equipments and their efficiency.
9 The production and compaction methods of embankments, the diagram and use of Proctor.
10 Determination of cross-section areas, cross method and algebraic method
11 The quick and approximate calculation of volume of earth work, volume calculations based on the types of cross section, soil distribution, the properties of Bruckner's diagrams
12 Soil improvement methods
13 The productivity and organization in construction sites in terms of earth works, criteria for yield, the organization types and the selection of appropriate structure. The cost in earth works construction sites, the cost of operating vehicles in sites, calculation of cost of operating vehicles, expenses in earth works
14 Homework presentations and general discussions

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book: Toprak isleri, Güngör Evren, Birsen Yayınevi, Istanbul, 1998 ISBN: 9755111948

Supplemantary Book: Toprak Işleri ve Iş Makineleri, B.Mazlum BIRECIKLI, Birsen Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2009 ISBN: 9789755115269

Course Materials: .ppt presentations, Lecture notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Course books (given in the references section.), visual slide presentations (lecture notes and presentations will be sent to the students by e-mail before the lesson), Visual presentations of the course, presentation slides and lecture notes, term assignment preparation and presentation of term assignment reports.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 QUZ QUIZ
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE*0.25 + QUZ *0.05 + ASG *0.20 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE*0.25 + QUZ *0.05 + ASG *0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

*** term assignment reports and presentations will be considered together.

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3: Learning outcomes will be evaluated by midterm examination questions.
LO 4-8: Attendance to laboratory, preparation and presentation of the final report will be used.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The rules, test program and the organisation of groups of laboratory studies will be announced to students at the beginning of the semester.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Professor Doctor Ali TOPAL: ali.topal@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced by instructors after the completion of semester program.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Student Presentations 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 18 18
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.24
LO.353
LO.443
LO.543
LO.63
LO.733

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