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ES538 SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION ANALYSIS

Course Code:	5610538
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
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 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.