COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ALI BAHADIR YAVUZ

Offered to

NATURAL BUILDING STONES AND GEMSTONES

Course Objective

Environmental corrosive factors that cause deterioration in natural building stones. Deterioration types and values in natural building stones. Methods of determining durability, deciding the usage areas according to stone types.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Winkler, E.M., 1997 Stone in Architecture, Springer Verlag Heidelberg New York ISBN 3-540-57626-6.

Supplementary Book(s):
McNail.G.H.,1998, Soil and Rock Construction Material, British Library cataloguing in Publication Data, ISBN 0 419 21420 8.
Labuz,J.F., 1997 Degradation of Natutal Building Stone. Geotechnical Special Publication No.72 ISBN 0-7844-0279-5 The Geo-Institute of Civil Engineers.
Küçükkaya, A.G.,Taşların Bozulma Nedenleri ve Korunma Yöntemleri Birsen Yayınevi ISBN 975-511-360-6

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical course and practical application

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

VIZE (% 50) : LO1, LO2, LO3,LO4,LO5
FINAL (%50) : LO1, LO2, LO3,LO4,LO5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

bahadir.yavuz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes