4300: Civil Engineering graduate courses

514 DESIGN OF EARTH STRUCTURES — 3 credits

Prerequisite: 314 or permission. Design of earth structures; dams, highway fills, cofferdams, etc. Embankment construction techniques, quality control, embankment analysis, instrumentation, foundation soil stabilization, seepage analysis and control. Design problem. Graduate students will perform more advanced analysis and design.

518 SOIL AND ROCK EXPLORATION 3 credits

Prerequisite: 314 or permission. Site exploration criteria and planning. Conventional boring, sampling and in situ testing methods. Theory and application of geophysics and geophysical methods including seismic, electrical resistivity, gravity, magnetic and radioactive measurements. Air photo interpretation.

523 CHEMISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS 3 credits

Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry. General, physical, organic, biochemistry, equilibrium, and colloid chemistry concepts applied to environmental engineering, Concepts are used in water and wastewater laboratory.

526 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 323. An introduction to the physical, chemical and biological processes utilized in the treatment of water and wastewater, with design parameters emphasized.

527 WATER QUALITY MODELING AND MANAGEMENT 3 credits

Prerequisite: 323. Analysis and simulation of the physical, chemical and biochemical processes affecting stream quality. Development of management strategies based upon the application of water quality modeling techniques to environmental systems.

528 HAZARDOUS AND SOLID WASTES 3 credits

Prerequisite: senior standing or permission of instructor. Hazardous and solid waste quantities, properties and sources are presented. Handling, processing, storage and disposal methods are discussed with non-technical constraints outlined.

543 APPLIED HYDRAULICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 341. Review of design principles; urban hydraulics, steam channel mechanics, sedimentation, coastal engineering.

551 COMPUTER METHODS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS 3 credits

Structural analysis using microcomputers; finite element software, interactive graphics; beam stiffness concepts and matrix formulation; simple and complex structural systems modeling; vibration analysis.

553 OPTIMUM STRUCTURAL DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 306. Basic concepts in structural optimization. Mathematical programming methods including unconstrained minimization, multidimensional minimization and constrained minimization.

554 ADVANCED MECHANICS OF MATERIALS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 202 or equivalent. Three-dimensional state of stress and strain analysis. Unsymmetric bending of straight and curved members with shear deformation. Beams on elastic foundations. Saint Venant�s torsional problems. Inelastic analysis of bending and torsional members. Introduction to energy method. Instability behavior of prismatic members.

563 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361. Theory and techniques for development, analysis and evaluation of transportation system plans, Emphasis on understanding and using tools and professional methods available to solve transportation planning problems, especially in urban areas.

564 HIGHWAY DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361. Study of modern design of geometrical and pavement features of highways. Design problem and computer use. Graduate students will produce a more complete design.

565 PAVEMENT ENGINEERING 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361. Theories of elasticity, of viscoelasticity and of layered systems as applied to pavements. Pavement materials characterization; pavement design, pavement restoration for rigid and flexible pavements.

566 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361. Vehicle and urban travel characteristics, traffic flow theory, traffic studies, accidents and safety, traffic signs and marking, traffic signal planning, traffic control and transportation administration.

567 ADVANCED HIGHWAY DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 564, Autocad, or permission. Computer-aided geometric design of highways including survey data input, digital terrain modeling, cross-section templates, horizontal and vertical roadway design, earthwork computations, and advanced topics.

568 HIGHWAY MATERIALS 3 credits

Prerequisites: 361, 380 or permission. Properties of aggregates, manufacture and properties of portland cement concrete, properties of asphaltic materials, design and testing of hot mix asphalt pavement mixes and of surface treatments. Laboratory preparation of specimens and determination of properties. Graduate student requirement: Graduate students will be required to perform an additional eight-hour asphalt laboratory (Abson recovery of asphalt from solution) and to prepare a paper on a highway materials topic.

574 UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION 2 credits

Prerequisite: 314. Description of practices and techniques of underground construction. Selection of proper method for individual job. Design of underground openings, support systems and linings.

604 DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES 3 credits

Prerequisite: 306. Approximate, rigorous dynamic analysis of one, two, multiple and infinite degrees of freedom structural systems. Elastoplastic, plastic analysis. Equivalent systems, dynamic hinge concept. Modal analysis. Transfer matrices. Fourier, Laplace transforms.

605 STRUCTURAL STABILITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 554 or equivalent. Buckling of bars, beam-columns and frames. Lateral buckling of beams. Double and tangent modulus theories. Energy methods. Compressed rings and curved bars. Torsional buckling. Buckling of plates and shells. Inelastic buckling.

606 ENERGY METHODS AND ELASTICITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 202. Work and complementary work. Strain energy and complementary strain energy. Virtual work and Castigliano�s theorems. Variational methods. Applications. Formulation of boundary value problems in elasticity. Selected topics in energy methods and elasticity.

607 PRESTRESSED CONCRETE 3 credits

Prerequisite: 404. Basic concepts. Design of double-tee roof girder; shear; development length; column; piles; design of highway bridge girder; pretensioned, post-tensioned; continuous girders; corbels; volume-change forces; connections.

608 MULTISTORY BUILDING DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 401. Floor systems; staggered truss system; braced frame design; unbraced frame design; drift indices; monocoque (tube and partial tube) systems; earthquake design; fire protection. Analysis by STRUDL.

609 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS I 3 credits

Prerequisite: 554 or equivalent. Introductory development of finite element method as applied to various topics from continuum mechanics. Such areas as plane, axisymmetric and 3-D stress analysis; conduction, fluid mechanics; transient problems an geometric and material nonlinearity.

610 COMPOSITE MATERIALS IN CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE 3 credits

Prerequisite: 554 or equivalent. Constituent materials; manufacturing processes; panel properties by micro/macromechanics; simplified analysis of composite beams; columns; and applications to highway bridges; composites in concrete and wood structures.

611 FUNDAMENTALS OF SOIL BEHAVIOR 2 credits

Prerequisite: 314. In-depth examination of structure and fundamental physico-chemical and mechanical properties of engineering soils viewed as particulate matter.

612 ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 314. Study of mechanics of behavior of soil as continuum. Principles of stress, strain, deformation, shear strength and pore water pressure as applied to mechanical behavior of soil masses.

613 ADVANCED GEOTECHNICAL TESTING 3 credits

Prerequisites: 518, 612. Theory and practice of static and dynamic in situ and laboratory soil testing. Testing procedures, applicability, limitations. General evaluation of geotechnical parameters for routine and special site conditions. One lecture, two laboratories per week.

614 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING I 3 credits

Prerequisite: 313 or permission. Foundation bearing capacity and settlement analysis. Design of shallow and deep foundation systems. Pile driving and load test procedures and analysis. Theory and design of earth-retaining structures including retaining walls, tiebacks and bulkheads.

615 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING II 3 credits

Prerequisite: 614 or permission. Soil-structure interaction theory and applications to under ground structures including conduits, tunnels and shafts. Advanced foundation construction methods and problems including dewatering, soil stabilization, underpinning and cofferdams. Slope stability analysis.

616 SOIL IMPROVEMENT 3 credits

Prerequisites: 313 and 314. Admixture stabilization, precompression with vertical drains, blasting, vibrocompaction, injection and grouting, thermal methods, electro-osmosis, soil reinforcement, case studies.

617 NUMERICAL METHODS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 3 credits

Prerequisites: 313 and 314. Steady-state and transient flow through soils, consolidation, soilstructure interaction, piling, stress-deformation analysis of earth structures.

618 ROCK MECHANICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 554 or permission. Mechanical nature of rocks; linear elasticity and application to rock problems; inelastic behavior of rocks, time dependence and effects of pore pressure, experimental characterization of rock properties; failure theory and crack propagation.

620 SANITARY ENGINEERING PROBLEMS 2 credits

Prerequisite: 323. Application of both laboratory methods and theory to solution of sanitary engineering problems involving water pollution, stream regeneration, special industrial wastes, detergents and others.

621 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES 4 credits

Corequisite: 523. Provide the basic principles of chemical reaction engineering, microbiology, environmental regulations, and contaminant migration required for the understanding and solving environmental problems.

622 AQUATIC CHEMISTRY 3 credits

Prerequisites: 3150:151 and 3150:153 or permission. Quantitative treatment of variables that govern the chemistry of aquatic systems. Emphasis on carbonate in open-closed systems, metal complexation and solubility, and oxidation-reduction reactions.

623 PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL TREATMENT PROCESSES 3 credits

Prerequisite or corequisite: 621. Theory, current research associated with physical/chemical processes, the impact on design-coagulation/flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, absorption processes emphasized.

624 BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESSES 3 credits

Prerequisite or corequisite: 621. Theory, current research associated with biological processes, related physical/chemical processes, the impact on design-activated sludge, fixed film processes, gas transfer, sludge stabilization, sludge dewatering processes emphasized.

625 WATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 623. Design of water treatment plants for potable, industrial and commercial uses. Development of water sources, treatment methods and financing used to design best practical methods in terms of cost-benefits.

626 WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 624. Application of theory and fundamentals to design of wastewater treatment plants. System design methods used for biological and chemical stabilization of wastewater to meet water quality criteria. Economic analyses made to determine best practical designs to be utilized.

627 ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATIONS LABORATORY 2 credits

Prerequisite: 426 or permission of instructor. Conduction of laboratory experiments related to the design and operation of water and wastewater treatment processes. Experimental design, data collection, analysis and report preparation.

628 ADVANCED CHEMICAL OXIDATION PROCESS 3 credits

Prerequisites: 3150:151 and 3150:153 or permission. Qualitative and quantitative treatment of variables that govern process chemistry and kinetics in water. Emphasis on ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and ultra-violet light (UV).

631 SOIL REMEDIATION 3 credits

Prerequisite: 621 or permission. Provide a thorough understanding of site characterization, traditional soil remediation technologies, as well as present new and emerging remediation technologies.

635 AIR POLLUTION CONTROL 3 credits

Prerequisite: 621 or permission. Introduction to air pollution control philosophies, approaches, regulations, and modeling. Also contains an in-depth evaluation/design approach for the control of particular matter, SOx and NOx.

640 ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 4500:310 or permission. Basic equations, Navier-Stokes equations. Analysis of potential flow, turbulence, hydraulic transients. Solution of typical fluid mechanics problems. Analysis of water hammer in pipe networks by method of characteristics.

644 OPEN CHANNEL HYDRAULICS 3 credits

Application of basic principles of fluid mechanics to flow in open channels. Criteria for analysis of uniform, gradually varied and rapidly varied flows. Study of movement and transportation of sediments. Design problems utilizing numerical techniques.

645 APPLIED HYDROLOGY 3 credits

Discussion of water cycle such as precipitation, evaporation, stream flows, floods, infiltration. Methods of analysis and their application to studies of water demand, storage, transportation including mathematical modeling of urban runoff and statistical hydrology.

646 COASTAL ENGINEERING 3 credits

Characteristics of linear and nonlinear wave theories. Interaction of structures, waves; design analysis of shore, offshore structures. Movement, transportation of sediments in lake shore areas.

663 ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING I 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361, 466, or permission. Highway and parking facility design, transportation planning, highway capacity estimates, signal systems and optimization, incident detection and management, freeway ramp metering, and highway traffic safety.

664 ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING II 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361, 466, or permission. Highway and parking facility design, transportation planning, highway capacity estimates, signal systems and optimization, incident detection and management, freeway ramp metering, and highway traffic safety.

665 TRAFFIC DETECTION AND DATA ANALYSIS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 361 or permission. Theory and application of pressure tubes, loop detectors, and imaging sensing, microwave, infrared, ultrasonic, laser detectors, parameter estimation, reliability, and data mining and fusion.

681 ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS 3 credits

Selected topics on principles governing mechanical behavior of materials with respect to elastic, plastic and creep responses, stress rupture, low and high cycle and thermal fatigue. Failure theories and fracture phenomena in brittle and ductile materials. Crack propagation and life prediction of engineering materials.

682 ELASTICITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 202. Plane stress, plane strain. Two-dimensional problems in rectangular, polar coordinates. Strain-energy methods. Stress, strain in three dimensions. Torsion. Bending. Thermal stresses.

683 PLASTICITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 682, 4600:622 or equivalent. Mathematical formulation of constitutive equations with focus on their use in structural analysis. Internal variables. Isotropic, kinematic hardening. Nonisothermal plasticity. Finite deformations. Anisotropy.

684 ADVANCED REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 403. Slab systems. Equivalent frame properties. Limit analysis. Yield line theory. Lateral load systems. Shear walls. Footings. Biaxial column action.

685 ADVANCED STEEL DESIGN 3 credits

Prerequisite: 401. Properties of steel, fasteners, bearing, friction joints, Gusset plates, bolts in tension, end plates, weld joints, cyclic loads, fatigue analysis, types of detail, torsion, stability design.

686 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 682. Electrohydraulic closed-loop test systems. Methods for specimen heating. Strain measurement techniques for room and elevated temperatures. Design of computer controlled experiments investigating deformation and failure under complex stress states.

687 LIMIT ANALYSIS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 3 credits

Prerequisites: 454/554, 682. Fundamental theorems of limit analysis. The lower-bound and upper-bound solutions. Applications to frames, plates and plane stress and plane strain problems. Design considerations. Mathematical programming and computer implementation.

694 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 1-3 credits

Prerequisite: 202. Introduction to fundamentals of deformation of materials: elasticity, plasticity and creep; Key deformation problems related to materials processing and failure by large strain deformation; Terminal "failure" analysis.

697 ENGINEERING REPORT 2 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of advisor. A relevant problem in civil engineering for students electing the non-thesis option. The final engineering report must be approved by the advisor and the advisory committee.

698 MASTER�S RESEARCH 1-6 credits

Prerequisite: Permission of advisor. (May be repeated.) Research on a suitable topic in civil engineering culminating in a master�s thesis.

699 MASTER�S THESIS 1-6 credits

Prerequisite: permission. Research and thesis on some suitable topic in civil engineering as approved by department. Defense of thesis is by final examination.

701 EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING 3 credits

Prerequisite: 604. Earthquake fundamentals. Earthquake response of single-story and multistory buildings, as well as structural components. Modal analysis for earthquake response. Inelastic response of multistory structures. Earthquake codes. Stochastic approach.

702 PLATES AND SHELLS 3 credits

Prerequisites: 682 and 3450:531. Navier and Levy solutions for rectangular plates. Approximate methods, including finite difference. Forces in middle plant. Large deflections. Differential geometry of a surface. Shells of revolution.

703 VISCOELASTICITY AND VISCOPLASTICITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 683. Formulation of constitutive relations for time dependent materials. Classical linear viscoelasticity. Internal variable representation of nonlinear, hereditary behavior. Creep and rate dependent plasticity. Continuum thermodynamics. Anisotropy.

704 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS II 3 credits

Prerequisite: 609 and 702 or permission. Curved, plate, shell brick elements. Quasi-analytical elements. Quadrature formulas. Substructuring for static and dynamic analyses. Solution algorithms for linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis. Computer program formulation. Review of large-scale production programs.

710 ADVANCED COMPOSITE MECHANICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 610. Analysis of short-fiber composites and statistical behavior, bending, buckling and vibration of laminated plates and shells. Advanced topics involving stress concentration, residue stress, fatigue, fracture toughness, nonlinear and viscoelastic stress-strain formulations, solutions of nonlinear problems.

712 DYNAMIC PLASTICITY 3 credits

Prerequisite: 683 or 703. Impulsive and transient loading of structural elements (beams, plates, shells, etc.) in which inelastic deformation occurs. Topics include: longitudinal and transverse plastic wave propagation in thin rods, propagation of plastic hinges, rate-dependent viscoplastic waves, transverse impact on beams and plates, high-rate forming, blast loading, plate perforation, shock waves in solids.

717 SOIL DYNAMICS 3 credits

Prerequisite: 614 or permission. Vibration and wave propagation theory relating to soils, soil structures and foundations. Dynamic behavior of soils. Design of foundations for dynamic loading impact, pulsating and blast loads.

731 BIOREMEDIATION 3 credits

Prerequisite: 621 or permission. Provide the fundamentals required for understanding and successfully implementing the biodegradation of hazardous compounds coupled with the design and operational techniques of bioremediation systems.

745 SEEPAGE 2 credits

Discussion of parameters determining permeability of various soils. Analytical, numerical and experimental methods to determine two- or three-dimensional movement of groundwater. Unsteady flows.

898 PRELIMINARY RESEARCH 1-15 credits

(May be repeated for a total of 15 credits.) Prerequisite: approval of dissertation director. Preliminary investigations prior to the submission of a dissertation proposal to the interdisciplinary Doctoral Committee.

899 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION 1-15 credits

(May be taken more than once.) Prerequisite: acceptance of research proposal by the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Committee and approval of the dissertation director. Original research by the doctoral student.

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS II 3 credits

Prerequisite: 609 and 702 or consent of instructor. Curved, plate, and shell brick elements. Quasi-analytical elements. Quadrature formulas. Substructing for static and dynamic analyses. Solution algorithms for linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis. Computer program formulation and use of commercial software products.