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Review of case studies involving successes and failures in legal principles and landmark cases relevant to civil engineering and construction. Contracts, torts, agency and professional liability, labor laws, insurance, expert testimony, arbitration, patents and copyrights, sureties, and ethics. Prerequisite: CE 286. SPRING.
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Advanced topics in column and beam design including local buckling, composite beams, plate girders, and torsion design. Behavior and design of bolted and welded connections. Structural planning and design of structural systems such as multistory buildings including computer applications. Prerequisite: CE 235. FALL.
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Design and behavior of two-way slab systems. Yield line theory. Shear and torsion analysis and design. Serviceability requirements and control of deflections of reinforced concrete systems. Introduction to prestressed concrete. Prerequisite: CE 235. SPRING.
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Review of constituent materials (reinforcements, matrices, and interfaces) and fabrication processes. Prediction of properties of unidirectional and short fiber materials (micromechanics). Anisotropic elasticity (derivation of Hooke’s law for anisotropic materials, macromechanics of laminated composites). Analysis of laminated composites based on Classical Lamination Theory. Behavior of composite beams and plates. Special topics (creep, fracture, fatigue, impact, and environmental effects). Prerequisite: CE 182 and MSE 150. SPRING.
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Design and construction of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and telecommunications systems in buildings. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green Building Rating System(TM) building approach to sustainability. Prerequisite: Senior standing. SPRING.
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Stress and strain analysis: equilibrium, compatibility, and constitutive equations including linear elastic and thermo-elastic relations; transformations; octahedral and deviatoric stresses. Applications to the torsion of bars, stress concentrations, and semi-infinite medium problems. Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam theories. Energy and related methods including applications. Kirchoff’s bending of rectangular and circular plates. Prerequisite: CE 182 or equivalent, MATH 198 or equivalent, MATH 194 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. FALL.
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Modes of failure: creep and relaxation, plastic flow, fracture and fatigue. Stability of members, frames, and plates. Membrane and bending analyses of shells, including the beam on elastic foundation analogy for cylindrical shells. Inelastic behavior and plasticity including frame, planar, axi-symmetric, and slip line problems. Prerequisite: CE 301 or consent of instructor. SPRING.
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Discrete modeling of problems of the continua. Mathematical basis of finite element method-weighted residual and variational concepts. Finite element formulations-displacement, force, and mixed methods. One-D problems of the continua and finite element solution-Co and C1 elements, eigenvalue and transient problems. Error checks and control. Mapping, shape functions, numerical quadrature, and solution of equations. Finite element formulation of two-dimensional problems (single- and multi-field), mapping and shape functions, triangular and quad elements with straight or curved boundaries. Application problems in 1-D, 2-D and 3-D. Three-D elements, singular problems, and elements of buckling and nonlinear problems. Error estimation and quality control. Computer implementation. Commercial packages. Prerequisite: MATH 194 and MATH 226 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. FALL.
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Basics of nonlinear mechanics-geometric and material nonlinearities. Discrete Lagrangian, Eulerian and other formulations. Nonlinear material models. Numerical solution algorithms in space and time. Solution of nonlinear (second-order and higher) problems. Multi-disciplinary problems. Error estimation and adaptive model improvement. Introduction to multiscale modeling and atomistic/continuum coupling. Prerequisite: CE 307 or equivalent. SPRING.
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