Soil properties of dormitory and surrounding areas at Tunceli-Aktuluk neighbourhood

While dimensioning the building bases, it is extremely important to transmit the horizontal and vertical loads caused by the structure to the floor, economically as far as possible, and without compromising the safety. In order to make an economic and safe structure model, soil's parameters and behaviours of structure must be known in the closest way to the reality. Recently, with the advancement of technology, the determination of the characteristics of the soils is made more realistic than the previous one. It is possible to make an optimum basic dimensioning with the laboratory experiments on specimens taken from the soil drillings to determine the properties of the soils and field sizes obtained from the field tests conducted for the determination of the bearing capacity in the soil drilling are possible. The topographic structure of the province of Tunceli (potential new settlements declining due to rugged terrain and dam lake basin) and the majority of the settlements of Munzur University and the majority of the public institutions are located along the Tunceli-Elazığ highway in the western direction of the province so that it is foreseen that the restoration activities will be concentrated along the Tunceli-Elazığ highway along the Aktuluk area. In this context, the ground parameters of the land expected to be constructed in the vicinity of Aktuluk area and its surroundings shall be determined correctly and it is necessary to perform the economic and safe basic solution in terms of Geotechnical Engineering. Because the concerned region is in the 2nd degree earthquake zone boundaries based on the Map of Turkey Earthquake Zone and the province's economic resources are limited. Within the scope of this thesis, the properties of the soils in the area of Aktuluk were examined. 26 soil drillings were made, Standard Penetration Tests (SPT) were performed in these drillings and disturbed soil samples were taken. In order to determine the physical properties of the soils examined, Water Content, Natural Unit Weight and Dry Bulk Density experiments were performed in labratory. Sieve Analysis and Atterberg Consistency Limit Experiments were performed to classify the soils. In addition, the results obtained from the results of the shear box experiments on the samples, calculations were made according to methods of Terzaghi (1943), Meyerhof (1951, 1963) and Hansen (1970) bearing capacity calculations and the values were compared with each other. Empirical approaches have been used to determine the index properties of the soils by using Atterberg Consistency Limits data. By using these empirical links, We have an idea about compressibility, swelling potential, degree of plasticity, liquidity index and consistency index of the soils.