Academic Catalog

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:
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.