560.201 (E,N)

STATICS AND MECHANICS OF MATERIALS  (4) Ghanem  Limit 50 Freshmen by permission only Co-listed with 530.201

Sec. 01

MTW 3

560.305 (E)

SOIL MECHANICS (4) Rechenmacher   Limit 30  Prereq: 560.206   

Sec. 01

MTW 10, F 1-4

560.325 (E)

CONCRETE STRUCTURES (3) Anandarajah  Limit 25  Prereq: 560.301

Sec. 01

MTW 12

560.349 (E)

DESIGN & SYNTHESIS I (2) Staff  Senior status or Perm. Req=d.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

560.445 (E)

ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS (3) Arwade  
Prereq: 560.301     Matrix methods for the analysis of statically indeterminate framed structures such as beams, plane trusses, space trusses, plane frames, grids and space frames.  Stiffness and flexibility methods.

Sec. 01

MTW 11
MTW 10

560.475 (E)

ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS (3) Anandarajah   Prereq: 560.305

Sec. 01

Th 6-9pm

560.491 (E)

CIVIL ENGINEERING SEMINAR -JUNIORS (0.5) Rechenmacher    Limit 75

Sec. 01

T 4

560.493 (E)

CIVIL ENGINEERING SEMINARS -SENIORS (0.5) Rechenmacher     Limit 75

Sec. 01

T 4

560.525

INDEPENDENT STUDY

560.535

RESEARCH

560.691

GRADUATE SEMINAR Ghanem

Sec. 01

T 4

560.729

STRUCTURAL MECHANICS Ghanem Arwade  Basic solid mechanics for structural engineers.  Stress, strain and constitutive laws.  Linear elasticity and viscoelasticity.  Introduction to nonlinear mechanics.  Static, dynamic and thermal stresses.  Specialization of theory to one- and two-dimensional cases: plane stress and plane strain, rods, and beams.  Work and energy principles; variational formulations.  Formerly 560.455

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MW 4:30-5:45
MW 4-5:15
ThF 1:30-3

560.730

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS Graham-Brady          Limit 30             Perm. Req’d Co-listed as 530.730

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:30
MW 4:30-5:45pm

560.734

ADVANCED PROBABILITY & STATISTICS Igusa

Prereq: 560.435 or introductory course in probability and statistics

Sec. 01

MTW 12:30 MTW 12

560.745

RETAINING STRUCTURES AND SLOPE STABILITY Rechenmacher Prereq: 560.305 or equivalent  
Limit 20     Earth pressure theories.  Design and behavior of rigid, flexible, braced, tied-back, slurry, and reinforced soil structure.  Stability of excavation, cut, and natural slopes.  Methods of slope stability analysis, effects of water forces, shear strength selection for analysis.  Stability and seepage in embankment dams. Course canceled 8/25/04

Sec. 01

MW 4:30-5:45

560.752

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS Schafer     Brief review of rigid-body dynamics.  Lagrange’s equations and Hamilton’s principal.  Free and deterministic forced vibration of undamped and damped single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems.  Vibration of continuous systems.  Approximate methods of analysis.  Introduction to random vibration of linear systems.

Sec. 01

MW 10:30-12

560.780

COASTAL ENGINEERING Dalrymple  Coastal processes and their influence on engineering at the shoreline.  Waves and currents, equilibrium beach profiles, littoral transport, shoreline modeling and the behavior of tidal inlets.  The impact of structures on the shoreline.

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MT 1:30-3
M 5-8pm
MW 9-10:30

560.783

OCEAN VEHICLES Shen
Hydrodynamics with applications in surface ships, coastal and offshore structures, and aquatic animal propulsion.  Waves, winds and currents in sea environment.  Interactions between surface waves and floating bodies.  Sea loads on offshore structures.  Ship hydrodynamics and seakeeping.  Fish swimming mechanism and biomimetics.

Sec. 01

W 5-8pm

560.835

GRADUATE RESEARCH