Civil Engineering

This course studies soils and engineering geology. Students design a geotechnical site investigation that accounts appropriately for the geological context; decide whether design problems involve drained or undrained loading; derive appropriate design parameters for soil strength, compressibility, consolidation, and permeability from laboratory test data; analyze simple stability problems for design; and predict flow rates and pore pressures in simple seepage design problems.

The course introduces the fundamental concepts of fluid flow, and examples of engineering fluid mechanics. The course helps students to develop a sound understanding of control volume analysis, and its use with mass, momentum, and energy conservation principles. The course prepares students for dimensional analysis for the use of scale models in wind tunnel and hydraulic model testing.

This course covers the following topics: definitions, notations and repetition of basic principles of mechanics; elastic body in general spatial movement, theoretical foundations for the modeling elastic bodies in MKS programs; fundamentals for solving dynamic tasks using FEM or other discretizing methods; model reduction; algorithms for solving the large-scale general matrix eigenvalue problem; response spectra method; attenuation; measurement of modal parameters (modal analysis) and model updating; controllability and observability. It is a combination of lecture and an exercise class going over problems.

On this course, students will learn the fundamentals of geometric nonlinearity for discrete structural systems. We will examine principles of stability and buckling analysis for discrete structural systems.We wil explore nonlinear solution procedures for tracing equilibrium paths and geometrically nonlinear finite elements for one-dimensional structural systems.We will also examine materially nonlinear finite elements for one-dimensional structural systems.