ES538 SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION ANALYSIS
| Course Code: | 5610538 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Engineering Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. MUSTAFA TOLGA YILMAZ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course is designed to equip students with computational skills needed to solve practical dynamic soil-structure interaction problems that are encountered in design and analysis of structures.
Course Content
Discrete Fourier transform. Soil-structure interaction analysis: direct and substructure methods, free field system, impedance relation, scattering analysis. Artificial boundary conditions: viscous boundary conditions in the absence and presence of free field. Description of seismic environment: types of control points, free displacements and forces in terms of control point motion.
Course Learning Outcomes
To enable students the mathematical skills to understand and to apply computational methods for dynamic soil-structure interaction analysis.
To enable students develop computer programs to implement simplified models in dynamic interaction analyis.
To enable students to solve dynamic response problems in frequency domain.
To enable students understand the fundamentals of wave propogation in elastic domains.
To enable students to apply substructuring in dynamic response analyses.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | Skills to analyse and to use different experiment set ups | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Skills to apply mathematical models to experimental and observatory results | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to write and present research outcomes | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Awareness of academic and research ethics | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability to work in multidisciplinary groups | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Skills to follow new developments in basic science and engineering areas | ✔ | |||