MINE527 ROCK MECHANICS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS
| Course Code: | 5650527 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Mining Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr AHMET GÜNEŞ YARDIMCI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- Teach students fundamentals of rock properties and constitutive behavior, failure around large underground chambers and tunnels and their applications.
- Provide an opportunity for the application of rock mechanics principles, analytical and numerical modeling techniques for the design and stability analysis of underground structures.
Course Content
Rock properties and constitutive behaviour. Anisotropy and rock strength. Constitutive behaviour of rock discontinuities. Analytical and numerical modeling of mechanical behaviour of rock and discontinuities. Failure around large underground chambers and tunnels; effects of rock discontinuities and pore pressure. Rock foundations, stability of foundations on jointed and bedded rock.
Course Learning Outcomes
Recognize the importance of Rock Mechanics from technical and economic points of view in mining (Student outcomes in Criterion 3: a, b, e, h); Choose the suitable failure criteria for the determination of stability of both surface and underground structures (Student outcomes in Criterion 3: a, c, e); Calculate the in situ stress and stress concentrations around underground opening (Student outcomes in Criterion 3: a, b, e); Integrate the 2D numerical solutions and structural problems with special boundary conditions in Rock Mechanics (Student outcomes in Criterion 3: a, c, e); Judge the differences between the behavior of rock mass and rock material properties (Student outcomes in Criterion 3: c, e)