COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL SYSTEM DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIM 1611 INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL SYSTEM DESIGN COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KUTLUĞ SAVAŞIR

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

To make students understand the basic concepts, loads and stress types related to structure and construction through experiments, to give knowledge about structure classification, construction systems of all kinds, wall producing methods with stone and brick and principles of Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği).

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognizing the basic concepts about structure and construction
2   Defining the concepts of structural system, material, component and element terms
3   Recognizing loads and stress principles
4   Classifying construction systems of all kinds
5   Knowing related Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği) principles
6   Learning principles of stone and brick walls

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 MEETING INTRODUCTION Job Presentation (What is architecture, which disciplines it is related) Lecture Presentation & principles, Structural & Construction Lectures in the curriculum, lecture policies and rules, grading and references
2 Building, Construction, to construct, structure terms, structure examples, construction material, construction component, construction element terms and other related terms
3 Structural system terms, structural systems Loads, forces, stresses, examples of load-form-load-bearing relations, natural structure examples, masonry, skeleton, folded plate, thin-shell, suspended, space structures
4 Loads and structural system relation Dead-weight / live-weight / heat and Dinamic loads Material behaviour against loads Equilibrium, stability, strength of materials, properties of a good structure
5 Tension, compression and bending stresses Shear force, torsional force and buckling force
6 Trials: Load, stress Kite, folded paper, advantages of curvature Strength of egg-shell, trials with balloon, sugar cubes and books
7 Trials: Bending Joint, hinge trials Pre-stressing / Post-stressing Importance of triangulation, Center of equilibrium, Moment of inertia, conditions for the building collapse
8 Midterm Exam
9 Building materials and their use in architecture Stone, brick, adobe, concrete, steel, reinforced concrete, plastic, glass and examples of buildings of their use.
10 Discussion of geometrical structure classification
11 CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS Primitive, vernacular, conventional, partially industrialized, fully industrialized
12 WALLS Types of walls, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls. Stone wall types
13 Principles of Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği) about walls. Brick walls related principles of Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği). Brick wall patterns stone wall patterns
14 Principles of Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği)
15 Principles of Earthquake Code (Afet/Deprem Yönetmeliği)

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynak:
- Şen, N. (1990) Mimarlıkta Strüktür ve Strüktürel Kavramlar, Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi Basım Ünitesi, Yayın No: 199, Izmir.
- Türkçü,H.Ç.,(2009), Yapım, Birsen Yayınevi, Istanbul.
- Meistermann, A. (2012) Adım Adım Taşıyıcı Sistemler, Çeviren : Tuğçe Selin Tağmat, YEM Yayın 192, Istanbul.
- Ching, F.D.K., Onouye, B.S. ve Zuberbuhler, D. (2017). Çizimlerle Taşıyıcı Sistemler. Şemalar, Sistemler ve Tasarım, Çeviren: Neslihan Güçmen, YEM Yayın 226, 2. Baskı, Istanbul.
Supplementary Book(s):
-
References: -
Materials: they will be announced by the instructors.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, in-class trials

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + FINS * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term % 40 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)
Participation/Quiz % 10 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6)
Final Exam % 50 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are expected to attend a minimum of 70% of the class.
2. Late submissions will be subject to different evaluation.
3. All kinds of plagiarism will result in a disciplinary action.
4. Instructor might do quiz or exercises in the term. Their marks will be considered in the participation/quiz notes.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kutlug.savasir@deu.edu.tr ;
0.533.364.52.28

Office Hours

to be declared at the beginning of semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

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.1455
LO.2455
LO.3455
LO.4455
LO.5455
LO.6455

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