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5.00 Credits
Core requirement for the High Performance Structures MEng program. Focus on the conceptual design of complex structures and the use of advanced technologies to improve the performance of structural systems with respect to their durability, constructability, efficiency and sustainability. An in-depth design study is carried out as a group effort and provides the background for individual student theses. Students must register for 1.562 for the Fall term, IAP, and the Spring term. Limited to Course 1 MEng students.
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Prereq: None. Coreq: 1.561
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3.00 Credits
Structural components in nuclear power plant systems, their functional purposes, operating conditions, and mechanical/structural design requirements. Combines mechanics techniques with models of material behavior to determine adequacy of component design. Considerations include mechanical loading, brittle fracture, inelastic behavior, elevated temperatures, neutron irradiation, vibrations and seismic effects.
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Prereq: 2.001 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity to update knowledge in continuum mechanics and constitutive behavior, and modeling of engineering materials based on thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Introduction to continuum mechanics and material modeling of engineering materials based on first energy principles: deformation and strain; momentum balance, stress, and stress states; elasticity and elasticity bounds; plasticity and yield design. Overarching theme is a unified mechanistic language using thermodynamics, which allows for understanding, modeling, and design of a broad range of engineering materials.
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Prereq: 1.050 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to fracture mechanics, poromechanics and micromechanics using a unified mechanistic approach based on energy principles for modeling a large range of man-made and natural engineering material behavior. Energy release and fracture energy, stress intensity factors and toughness, saturated and partially saturated poromechanics of deformable porous materials, Darcy's law, linear micromechanics and application to porous materials, homogenization methods, chemomechanics of dissolution processes. In addition to assignments, emphasizes development of a consistent engineering science approach, culminating in a term paper.
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Prereq: 1.050, 1.57; or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Computer-based methods for the analysis of large-scale structural systems. Modeling strategies for complex structures. Application to tall buildings, cable-stayed bridges, shell structures, and tension structures. Geometric nonlinear behavior. Introduction to the theory of active quasi static structural control. Design of feedback control systems for civil structures. Simulation studies using customized computer software.
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Prereq: Permission of Instructor
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2.00 Credits
Designed to complement general structural analysis classes. Provides an understanding of the full range of structures and structural forms, including how they are designed and built. Develops skills necessary for conceptual design work, such as how to visualize options and judge their relative advantages in a qualitative manner. Case studies demonstrate how to conceive a structural form and consider its various options, and to understand assembly and construction methods intrinsic to the real behavior of the final structure.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Residual stresses. Thermal effects. Analysis of beams, columns, tensioned beams, trusses, frames, arches, cables, and shafts of general shape and material, including composites. Elastic buckling of columns. Exact and approximate methods, energy methods, principle of virtual work, introduction to computational structural mechanics. Examples from civil, mechanical, offshore, and ship structures.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.002 or 2.012
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0.00 Credits
Students participate in the ASCE / AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition, gaining practical experience in structural design, steel fabrication processes, construction planning, organization, and teamwork. Provides an opportunity to compete against, and network with, students from other colleges and universities from around the country.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Single- and multiple-degree-of-freedom vibration problems, using matrix formulation and normal mode superposition methods. Time and frequency domain solution techniques including convolution and Fourier transforms. Applications to vibration isolation, damping treatment, and dynamic absorbers. Analysis of continuous systems by exact and approximate methods. Applications to buildings, ships, aircraft and offshore structures. Vibration measurement and analysis techniques. Students should possess basic knowledge in structural mechanics and in linear algebra. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Provides ability to design and assess steel structures. Steel structures are taught at three levels: the overall structural system (multi-story buildings, wide-span buildings, bridges, masts, and towers); the components of a structural system (floor systems, plate girders, frames, and beams); and the details of structural components (connection types, welding, and bolting). Each level includes a balance among theoretical analysis, design requirements, and construction/cost considerations. Existing structures are used as worked examples.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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