COURSE UNIT TITLE

: UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS AND SUPPORT DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDN 4206 UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS AND SUPPORT DESIGN COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Mining Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CEMALETTIN OKAY AKSOY

Offered to

Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

To cultivate the person who describe the underground structure and their purposes, to detect rock mass concept, to knowing and querying support and support elements and to design support for underground openings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Description of multidisipliner problems with the Mathematics, Applied and Engineering knowledge.
2   The design of experiments to solve problems and to get results with the analyses.
3   Solving the problems with the profesional knowledge and ethics.
4   Combining the results and show the most appropriate solution alternatives
5   To predict of the results of solved problems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, Importance of Underground Structure and Support in Mining Engineering, Classification of Underground Structure According To Usage
2 The underground structures projecting
3 Support elements and systems, suppport design philosophy
4 The use of the the rock mass properties to design of support
5 Design of underground openings with empirical methods
6 Design of underground openings with numerical methods
7 Design of pillar
8 Shaft support design
9 Longwall support design
10 Deep and shallow tunnel support design, tunnel lining and injection
11 Support of big underground openings
12 Description of subsidence
13 Open excavation support systems
14 Project Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Madenlerde tahkimat işleri ve tasarımı, c. Birön, e. Arıoğlu, birsen yayınevi
Tünel ve kuyu açma, H. Köse, T. Onargan. S. Gürgen, H. Yenice, C.O. Aksoy, DEÜ matbaası
Rock mechanics for underground mining, second edition, b.h.g. Brady, e.t. Brown, kluwer
academic publishers.
Tünel dersi notları, e. Arıoğlu, basılmamış ders notları,
Coal mine ground control, s.s. Peng, john willey&sons.
Kayaya gömülü fore kazıklar (bilgi föyleri, çözümlü problemler), e. Arıoğlu, a.o.
Yılmaz, h. Tunçdemir, evrim yayınevi.
Tunnel engineers handbook, ı. Bickel, o. John, t.r.kuesel, kriger publishing company
Desing methology in rock engineering (theory, education and practice), z.t. Bieniawski,
a.a. Balkema.
Kaya kütlelerinin mühendislik özellikleri, r. Ulusay, h. Sönmez, tmmob jeoloji
mühendisleri odası, 2007.
Rock mechanics principles in engineering practice, cira + ground engineering report:
underground construction, j. A., hodson, butterworths, London, 1989.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theorical instructions + Homework

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

None

Assessment Criteria

HOMEWORK (%20): LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
MIDTERM EXAM (30) : LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
FINAL (%50): LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

okay.aksoy@deu.edu.tr, 0232-301 75 22
turgay.onargan@deu.edu.tr, 0232-3017511

Office Hours

FRIDAY, 10:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing assignments 3 2 6
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 80

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15353
LO.25545534
LO.34453
LO.44544
LO.5454

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