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theories and detailed study of shear strength of cohesionless and
cohesive soils; in-depth evaluation of the strength compressibility
and permeability of natural soils.
ENCE 6341 Earth Structures
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 3340 or equivalent. Design of projects involving
earth dams, embankments, and natural slopes; site investigation,
soil properties and compaction, analysis of seepage and slope
stability; seepage control and landslide prevention; performance
observations and practical consideration in design and construction;
and case studies of types of failures.
ENCE 6342 Dewatering & Grndwater Control
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 3340 or equivalent. The study of the seepage
through earthen dams, construction excavations and hydraulic
structures. Properties of phreatic surfaces. Seepage pressures, piping
and boiling. Construction and utilization of flow nets. Groundwater
mechanics applications including flow characteristics and changes
in flow due to pump and drain systems.
ENCE 6343 Adv Soil Mechanics Laboratory
1 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 3340 or equivalent. Laboratory measurement of
soil properties from introductory to advanced techniques. Emphasis
on strength, compressibility, and permeability tests.
Civil Engineering 6343
ENCE 6344 Geotechnic Engr for Waste Mgmt
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 3320, 3340 or equivalent. An overview of the
theoretical and practical aspects of the site selection, design, construction,
and performance of waste disposal facilities, state and
federal regulations governing solid and hazardous waste.
ENCE 6345 Num Meth Geotechnical Engr I
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 4340, ENME 3020 or consent of department. Reexamination
of basic concepts from solid mechanics; constitutive
models, strain-displacement relations; and use of finite difference
methods, finite element methods and other numerical methods,
with application to beams, slabs, and pavements.
ENCE 6346 Num Meth Geotechnical Engr II
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 6345. Consolidation, flow through porous media,
advanced methods applied to design and analysis of soil-structure
systems; shallow and pile foundations, earth retaining structures,
and limit design.
ENCE 6347 Ground Improvement
3 cr.
Overview of recent methods of placement and improvement of
soils for engineering construction practice. Compaction methods
including vibro techniques, dynamic compaction and compaction
grouting. Use of preloading and acceleration of consolidation
settlement. Application of electro-kinetics in construction practice.
Various methods and applicability of in-situ earth reinforcement.
Excavation support methods and groundwater lowering and drainage
techniques.
ENCE 6348 Numerical Methods Civil Engr
3 cr.
Prerequisites: Computer programming skills ENME 3020 or equivalent;
or consent of instructor. Numerical techniques for the formulation
and solution of both discrete and continuous systems of
equilibrium propagation eigenvalue and optimization problems.
ENCE 6349 Deep Foundations
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 3340 and ENCE 4340. Review of pile materials,
equipment and installation. Evaluation of the soil parameters for
pile foundation by laboratory and field tests. Analysis and design
of piles for vertical and lateral loads. Application of design procedures
for drilled shafts. Use and interpretation of pile load tests.
Principles of pile foundations under dynamic loads.
ENCE 6350 Matrix Meth Structural Engr
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 3356 or equivalent, CSCI 1201 or knowledge of
computer programming. Review of basic matrix operations; classical
methods of structural analysis in matrix formulation; work
and energy principles; analysis of structures by the flexibility and
stiffness methods; development and application of computer programs
for matrix methods of analysis; introduction to finite element
method.
ENCE 6351 Adv Design Structural Systems
3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of department. Advanced design course
offered on a demand basis with registration only by demonstration
of adequate preparation. Design of pressure vessels, tanks, folded
plates, and shell roofs; design of advanced bridge systems including
orthotropic decks, box-girder bridges, and post-tensioned sectional
bridges; selected advanced design topics.
ENCE 6352 Reliability Anlysis Civil Engr
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 3356, 3320,and 3340, and MATH 2314. Analysis
of failure probability for civil engineering systems. Construction
of load and capacity probability distributions from data. Introduction
to decision theory. Applications to structures, soils, planning,
hydraulics, and other civil subareas.
ENCE 6353 Adv Mechanics of Materials
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 2351. Advanced topics in mechanics of materials,
including torsion of non-circular prismatic bars, shear center,
unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, flat plates, elastic strain
energy, and theories of failure and application to machine and
structural design. One-third of course is devoted to analysis and
two-thirds to synthesis and design.
ENCE 6355 Theory Plates & Shells
3 cr.
(ENCE 6355 and ENME 6355 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: ENCE 6353
and MATH 2221. Laterally loaded plates with various boundary conditions;
elastic stability of plates; differential geometry of surfaces;
equilibrium and strain equations; membrane theory of shells; shells
of revolution with emphasis on cylindrical and spherical shells.
ENCE 6357 Geosynthetics
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 3340. Overview of geosynthetics. Functions and
mechanisms of geotextiles. Design procedures using geotextiles for
drainage, reinforcement and other functions. Design procedures for
geogrid reinforcement. Design methods for drainage systems using
geonets. Use and application of geomembranes in landfill liners.
Design and construction methods using geosynthetic clay liners.
Uses and design applications of geopipes and geocomposites.
ENCE 6358 Adv Steel Design
3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3356 and 4358. Design of plate girders, composite
beams, and connections; plastic hinges and introduction to
plastic analysis of steel structures; and computer-aided design of
steel space frame and introduction to steel bridge design.
ENCE 6359 Adv Concrete Design
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 3356 and 4359. Structural systems for buildings;
lateral load analysis and design of shear walls; design of twoway
slabs; design of biaxially loaded columns; torsion in concrete
beams; introduction of prestressed concrete design; and general
aspects of design.
ENCE 6360 Plastic Design Steel Structure
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 4358. Collapse mechanism and plastic analysis;
stability and deformation considerations; plastic design and methods
of optimization; shakedown analysis; introduction to load and
resistance factor design.
ENCE 6361 Prestressed Concrete Design
3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 4359. Principles and methods of prestressing;
design for flexure, shear, temperature, and fatigue; roof and floor
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