MDN703 - ADVANCED MECHANICAL EXCAVATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED MECHANICAL EXCAVATION | MDN703 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Question and Answer | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Sair KAHRAMAN | |||||
| Course objective | The course aims to give the student the advanced knowledge of underground excavations, cutting tools used in excavation machines, and the factors affecting the cuttability and the criteria of cuttability. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The foundation of excavation mechanics, cutting tests and developments, cutterhead tool lacing design, cutter wear and consumption, the performance prediction of excavators, tunnel excavation in difficult ground, mechanized shaft boring, and special excavation techniques. | |||||
| References | Kundel, H., 1981. Kömür İstihsalinde Kazı Mekanizasyonu, Çeviren: Şinasi ESKİKAYA, İTÜ Üniversite Matbaası, Gümüşsuyu, İstanbul. SME Mining Engineering Handbook, 1992. Mining Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, SME, Howard L. Hartman. Stefanko, R., 1983. Coal Mining Technology, Editor: Christopher J. BISE, Published by SME of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. New York. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | The importance of mechanized excavation, |
| Week 2 | Excavation operations and machines used in excavation |
| Week 3 | Excavating theories about cutting tools |
| Week 4 | Properties of cutting tools, abrasion types on cutting tools |
| Week 5 | Definition of the excavability term, effective factors on excavability |
| Week 6 | Determination of methods for excavability value for rocks |
| Week 7 | Hydraulic and hydra-mechanical excavation |
| Week 8 | Midtermexam |
| Week 9 | Cutting theories related to rock cutting using cutting pick |
| Week 10 | Efficient rock cutting theories |
| Week 11 | Cutting pick abrasions |
| Week 12 | Effects of rock properties to mechanical excavation |
| Week 13 | Student presentations |
| Week 14 | Student presentations |
| Week 15 | Preparation for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 15 |
| Presentation | 1 | 15 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 20 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 3 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 11 | 12 | 132 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 48 | 48 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 48 | 48 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 29 | 141 | 300 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. An ability to design, solve and improve the problems related to mining engineering by using extensively the basic and engineering sciences. | X | ||||
| 2. An ability to develop a new view, scientific method, design or application which innovate in the field of mining engineering or an ability to apply a known view, scientific method or design to the field of mining engineering. | X | ||||
| 3. An ability to design, apply, conclude and supervise an original research process related to mining engineering. | X | ||||
| 4. An ability to reach new knowledge in the field of mining engineering and to assess them systematically. | X | ||||
| 5. An ability to publish the outcomes of the academic studies related to the field of mining engineering in reputable academic environments. | X | ||||
| 6. An ability to assess scientific, technological, social and cultural developments and to transfer them to public by considering scientific objectivity and ethical responsibility. | X | ||||
| 7. An ability to assess, synthesis and analysis critically the views and developments in the field of mining engineering. | X | ||||
| 8. An ability to communicate verbally and in written form with the colleagues in the field of mining engineering and in wider scientific and social environments and to defend her/his own views. | X | ||||
| 9. An ability to make leadership in environments in which original and interdisciplinary problems are solved. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest