2006-08 Course Descriptions - Catalog - University of Oklahoma

Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES)The Uni ver sity of Oklahoma 2006-2008 Gen eral Cat a logG5483 Urban and Regional Transportation Planning (Crosslisted withRegional and City Planning 5483). Prerequisite: graduate standing orpermission. Characteristics of urban and regional passenger and freightdemand; travel demand forecasting methodologies; long- and short-rangeplanning strategies; role of governments; characteristics of major modes oftransport; decision-making strategies; case studies. (Sp)G5493 Transportation and Land Development (Crosslisted withRegional and City Planning 5493). Prerequisite: graduate standing orpermission. Study of interactions between land development activity andthe transportation network. Application of planning and design techniquesto manage the impacts of development upon the transportation system.G5600 Environmental Quality Management Field Training. 1 to 4 hours.Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. A practicalproblem in environmental quality control is chosen and the classparticipates in its solution. Laboratory (Su)G5603 Environmental Protection (Slashlisted with 4603; Crosslistedwith Regional and City Planning 5603). Prerequisite: instructorpermission. Mitigation of human health and environmental problems witha focus on differences between developing and developed countries.Topics include baseline health indicators, population growth, toxicology,epidemiology, and risk assessment, water and wastewater, air quality, solidand hazardous waste, and environmental management systems. Nostudent may earn credit for both 4603 and 5603. (F)G5624 Biological Waste Treatment. Treatment of waste using biologicalprocesses; emphasis on treatment kinetics, municipal wastewater treatmentprocesses, and design of municipal wastewater unit processes; applicationof biological treatment concepts to other wastes including industrial wastes,groundwater, and solid or hazardous wastes. Laboratory (F)G5633 Urban Environmental Systems (Crosslisted with Regional andCity Planning 5633). Prerequisite: Senior standing in Civil Engineering orEnvironmental Science or permission; for professional elective, graduatestanding. Designed to bring together all of the physical elements of theurban systems treated separately in civil engineering and environmentalscience such as water, sewage, watersheds, etc., into an organized system.The model and parameter of the elements are first described and thenfollowed by the whole system, its goals, alternatives, components,arrangements, model of effectiveness and methods of forecasting. (Irreg.)G5653 Advanced Mechanics of Materials. Prerequisite: Engineering 2153and senior or graduate standing. Principal stresses and strains; theories offailure; introduction to elasticity; unsymmetrical bending and shear; torsionof noncircular solid cross sections, cellular sections and open sections;introduction to plate bending and buckling. (F)G5673 Colloid and Surface Science. Prerequisite: graduate standing orpermission of instructor. Capillarity, surface thermodynamics, adsorptionfrom vapor and liquid phases, contact angles, micelle formation, solubilization,emulsions and foams. Applications to be discussed include detergency,enhanced oil recovery and adsorption for pollution control. (Irreg.)G5683 Dynamics of Structures. Prerequisite: 3253, 3414. Free vibration,forced vibration and transient response of structures having one, multipleor infinite number of degrees-of-freedom; structural damping effects;numerical solution techniques; LaGrange’s equation of motion,Rayleigh-Ritz method. General matrix formulation for multipledegrees-of-freedom, modal coordinate transformation. Introduction toearthquake engineering concepts. (F)G5693 Structural Design of Pavements. Prerequisite: 3364, 3884. Effectof load and climate on the design of rigid and flexible pavements andinteraction of pavement components. (Irreg.)G5743 Design of Concrete Mixtures and Materials. Prerequisite: 3673.Examine material properties of plain concrete in the fresh and hardenedstates. The following topics will be covered: chemistry of cement andpozzolans; properties of constituent materials; proportioning of concretemixtures; the proper use and effects of chemical and mineral admixtures;measurement of concrete properties; and construction practices andhandling of fresh concrete. Laboratory (Irreg.)G5753 Structural Design—Wood (slashlisted with 4753). Prerequisite:3414 or equivalent. Material properties and behavior of wood. Analysisand design of solid and laminated structural members, connections, systems,trusses and arches. Current developments in structural wood design andresearch. No student may earn credit for both 4753 and 5753. (Irreg.)G5763 Introduction to Finite Element Method (Crosslisted withAerospace and Mechanical Engineering 5763). Prerequisite: 5663.Weighted residual and variational approaches. Finite element formulationfor rod, truss and beam elements; plane stress and plane strain problem;axi-symmetric and three-dimensional analysis; isoparametric elements;conforming and nonconforming plate and shell elements. Laboratory (Sp)G5773 Structural Design—Steel II. Prerequisite: 3664. Advancedstructural steel design including steel deck diaphragms, column and beambracing, composite beam design, rigid frame design, torsional memberdesign, plate girder design, and design of building connections. (Sp)G5783 Structural Design—Concrete II. Prerequisite: 4673. Advancedreinforced concrete behavior and design including limit design, anchorageslender columns, truss models for shear and torsion on beams, two-wayand flat slabs, and the art of detailing. (Sp)G5793 Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures. Prerequisite: 3673.Design procedures for pretensioned and post-tensioned concretestructures, with emphasis on the behavior of prestressed concrete. Topicsinclude methods of analysis, time dependent effects, fabrication andconstruction procedures, connections, highway bridges, frames, compositeconstruction, continuous structures, and anchorage zone detailing. (Irreg.)G5823 GIS Applications in Environmental Modeling. Prerequisite: Math3113 or equivalent. Consideration of the many spatially distributedparameters affecting such processes as transport and fate of contaminants,hydrologic processes, and many other environmental phenomena.Geographic Information Systems are increasingly used as an indispensabletool for analysis, management, and modeling. (Sp)G5833 Ground Water Quality Protection. Prerequisite: graduate standingor permission. Introduction to ground water quality protection. Coverssources of ground water, ground water hydrology, ground waterinformation sources, ground water pollution sources, subsurface transportand fate processes and monitoring of ground water systems. (F)G5843 Hydrology. Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering,environmental science or geology, or permission. An applied course onhydrology dealing with environmental water problems; principles ofhydrologic systems, their structure and components; methods of analysisand their application to various purposes of water resources planning anddevelopment. (Sp)G5853 Groundwater and Seepage (Crosslisted with Geology 5853).Prerequisite: graduate standing in civil engineering, environmental scienceor geology or permission. An applied course dealing with properties ofaquifers, modeling of groundwater flow, groundwater hydrology and itsinterrelation with surface water, well hydraulics, pumping tests and safeyield of aquifers. (F)G5863 Environmental Assessment Methodologies (Slashlisted with4863; Crosslisted with Regional and City Planning 5863). Prerequisite:graduate standing or permission of instructor. Develop knowledge ofvarious environmental assessment methodologies or “tools”, includingassessments of socio-economic, physical/chemical and biological impactsat the pre-project, operational and post-project phases on human andnon-human components of the environment. No student may earn creditfor both 4863 and 5863. (Sp)G5873 Water Quality Management. Prerequisite: senior or graduatestanding. Water quality in lakes, rivers, estuaries; chemical, physical andbiological aspects of marine and fresh waters; waste assimilation; systemmodeling; water quality management; waste load allocation, and engineercontrols. (Sp)G5883 Environmental Modeling. Prerequisite: Aerospace andMechanical Engineering 5573 or permission of instructor. Introduction totheoretical and practical issues of computer-based environmentalmodeling. Covers problem formulation, implementation, and application.Topical areas include conceptualizing problems, conservation laws, partialdifferential equations, numerical methods, and applications ranging fromcoastal hydrodynamics to contaminant transport. Emphasis onunderstanding the model process rather than using “canned” models. (F)G5913 Risk Assessment and Management. Prerequisite: senior orgraduate standing or permission of instructor. Basic concepts of riskassessment and management process including hazard (risk) identification,dose—response and exposure assessment, risk characterization andevaluation, and risk management. Case studies and applications ofconcepts, with the orientation toward environmental issues andrisk—cost—benefit analyses.G5923 Air Pollution Control Engineering. Prerequisite: senior or graduatestanding. Basic aspects of air pollution; legislation, sources and effects;monitory and atmospheric dispersion. Particulate emissions; control ofparticulates by settling chambers, cyclones, scrubbers, filters, electrostatic43 Course Descriptions