COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INŞ 4228 EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Civil Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR ÖZGÜR BOZDAĞ

Offered to

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

Giving information about principles of earthquake resistant structural design, earthquake codes and principles of performance based design to civil engineer candidates.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To give information about causes of earthquakes and basic seismology
2   To give an information about earthquake spectra
3   To give an information about behaviour of structures during earthquake
4   Explanation of current earthquake code
5   To give an information about basic principles of performance based design

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, presentation of structural damages during major historical earthquakes
2 Causes of earthquakes, faults and characteristics, major fault systems in Türkiye, earthquake waves and, earthquake epicenter and hypocenter, determination of earthquake focus
3 Measurement of strong ground motion, earthquake intensity, earthquake intensity scales, earthquake magnitude, earthquake magnitude definitions, earthquake energy, earthquake iso-intensity maps
4 Concept of earthquake spectrum, derivation of equation of motion for one degree of freedom systems, construction of earthquake response spectra and its properties
5 Derivation of equation of motion for one degree of freedom systems, mode superposition method, Rayleigh s method
6 Principles of earthquake resistant structural design, safety against earthquakes, development of earthquake codes in Türkiye, behavior of structures during earthquakes
7 Irregularities in earthquake code, conditions for irregular buildings, irregularities in vertical and in plan, aspects of structural system design
8 Ductility concept, determination of equivalent earthquake loads on structures, construction of design earthquake acceleration spectrum, force based design, force reduction factor
9 Equivalent earthquake force method, numerical examples on equivalent earthquake force method
10 Mode superposition method, numerical examples on mode superposition
11 Mode superposition method, numerical examples on mode superposition
12 Torsion of buildings and center of rigidity concept, determination of center of rigidity, numerical examples
13 Rules for earthquake resistant design of RC buildings in earthquake code, limitation of interstory drifts, limitation of second order effects, capacity design principle, high and normal ductility level systems
14 Basic concepts of nonlinear structural behaviour, structural performance concept, basic concepts of performance based design

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): "Depreme Dayanıklı Yapı Tasarımı", M. Düzgün, Ö.Bozdağ Lecture Notes, "Deprem Mühendisliğine Giriş ve Depreme Dayanıklı Yapı Tasarımı", Z. Celep, N. Kumbasar, Beta Dağıtım, Istanbul, 2000. "Yapı Dinamiği ve Deprem Mühendisliği", Ş.Z. Uzsoy , Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayınları, No:288, Izmir, 2001, "Betonarme", U.Ersoy, G.Özcebe, Evrim Yayınevi,Istanbul,2001, "Betonarme Yapılar", Z. Celep, N. Kumbasar, Beta Dağıtım, Istanbul , 2005, "Deprem Mühendisliği", S.L.Kramer, Geoteknik-, Gazi Kitabevi, Ankara,2003, "Earthquake Resistant Design", D.J. Dowrick, John Wiley & Sons, 1987."Dynamics of Structures", A.K. Chopra, Prentice Hall, 1995. "Deprem Bölgelerinde Yapılacak Binalar Hakkında Yönetmelik", 2006.

Materials: Course notes and presentations

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations and lecture notes.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

If needed, other assessment methods can be added to the table given below.

Assessment Criteria

LO 3, 4: Evaluated through mid terms, final exams and homeworks.
LO 1, 2, 5: Evaluated through course presentations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance in the class will be followed in regular basis.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr. Özgür BOZDAĞ; ozgur.bozdag@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Office Hours will be announced in the beginning of the semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for tutorial exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.155424443
LO.255424443
LO.355424443
LO.455424443
LO.555424443

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