Geomechanics Courses
Geomechanics Engineering Courses
If you do not have a undergraduate degree in engineering, you might need to take additional courses:
(These courses will not count towards your degree)
Courses would be based on the individual and what bachelor’s degree that individual has. Please see the research area representative for more information. You can find the research area representative by going to our graduate admissions contact page.
Undergraduate Courses: (Will not count towards graduate degree)
CEGE 3301 Soil Mechanics I
CEGE 4301 Soil Mechanics II
Advanced Undergraduate Courses/Graduate Courses:
CEGE 4121 Computer Applications II
CEGE 4311 Rock Mechanics
CEGE 4351 Groundwater Mechanics
CEGE 4352 Groundwater Modeling
CEGE 5341 Wave Methods for Nondestructive Testing
CEGE 5342 Introduction to Inverse Problems
CEGE 5351 Advanced Engineering Mathematics I
CEGE 5411 Applied Structural Mechanics
Advanced Graduate Courses:
CEGE 8300 Seminar: Geomechanics (MS students can count 1 credit towards their degree/PhD students can count 2 credits towards their degree)
CEGE 8321 Thermoporoelasticity
CEGE 8336 Boundary Element Methods I
CEGE 8341 Wave Propagation in Solids and Structures
CEGE 8351 Advanced Engineering Mathematics II
CEGE 8352 Advanced Groundwater Mechanics II
Graduate Courses in Related Fields:
AEM 5501 Continuum Mechanics
AEM 5503 Theory of Elasticity
AEM 8527 Pattern Formation and Bifurcation in Materials
AEM 8531 Fracture Mechanics
AEM 8541 Mechanics of Crystalline Solids
AEM 8551 Multiscale Methods for Bridging Length and Time Scales
BMEN 8101 Biomedical Digital Signal Processing
CEGE 5411 Applied Structural Mechanics
CEGE 8401 Fundamental of Finite Elemental Method
CEGE 8402 Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
CEGE 8413 Fracture and Scaling
CEGE 8421 Structural Dynamics
CEGE 4311: Rock Mechanics
Course Detail
Units: 4 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3301, upper division CSE
Description
Site investigation/classification. In-situ stresses. Strength/failure criteria of rock/interfaces. Stereographic projections. Kinematic analysis of rock slopes. Block size/stability. Reinforcement. Methods of stress analysis. Pillar design, stiffness effects. Elastoplastic analysis. Rock-support interaction. Numerical modeling of support systems. Lab testing of rock.
prereq: CEGE 3301 or instr consent
CEGE 4351: Groundwater Mechanics
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3101 or BBE 2003, CEGE 3502 or BBE 3102, upper division
Description
Shallow confined, unconfined, and sem-confined flows. Flow in two coupled aquifers separated by leaky layers. Transient flow. Flow toward wells. Streamlines/pathlines in two/three dimensions. Contaminant transport. Elementary computer modeling.
prereq: CEGE 3101 or BBE 2003, CEGE 3502 or BBE 3012, upper division
CEGE 4352: Groundwater Modeling
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4351, upper division CSE
Description
Analytic element method. Mathematical/computer modeling of single/multiple aquifer systems. Groundwater recovery. Field problems. Theory/application of simple contaminant transport models, including capture zone analysis.
prereq: CEGE 4351, upper div CSE or grad student or instr consent
CEGE 5341: Wave Methods for Nondestructive Testing
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: Exclude fr or Soph 5000 level courses
Description
Introduction to contemporary methods for nondestructive characterization of objects of civil infrastructure (e.g., highways, bridges, geotechnical sites). Imaging technologies based on propagation of elastic waves such as ultrasonic/resonant frequency methods, seismic surveys, and acoustic emission monitoring. Lecture
prereq: [AEM 2021, AEM 3031] or instr consent
CEGE 5342: Introduction to Inverse Problems
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F only
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: MATH 2243, MATH 2263
Description
Introduction to principles and applications of the inverse problems theory -- the underpinning of model-driven data analytics. The course covers
(i) basic ideas, (ii) mathematical foundation, (iii) discretization strategies, (iv) regularization techniques, (v) solution algorithms, and (vi) example problems. All advanced concepts, when recalled, are introduced in an intuitive engineering setting. The discussion, supported by ample numerical examples, focuses on the inversion of linear ``forward'' models. Numerical solutions are implemented in the Matlab environment, and make use of the regtools package that accompanies the textbook (P.C. Hansen, Discrete Inverse Problems -- Insight and Applications, SIAM, 2010).
Prereqs: MATH 2243, MATH 2263, CEGE 3101 or equivalent
CEGE 5351: Advanced Engineering Mathematics I
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: MATH 2374 or equiv, upper division CSE student or grad
Description
Emphasizes skills relevant for civil, environmental, and geo- engineers. Mathematical principles explained in an engineering setting. Applications from various areas in civil, environmental, and geo- engineering.
prereq: [ Math 2374 or equiv], upper division CSE student or grad student] or instr consent
CEGE 8300: Seminar: Geomechanics
Course Detail
Units: 1 units
Grading Basis: S-N or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Presentations on various topics.
CEGE 8321: Thermoporoelasticity
Course Detail
Units: 4 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE grad student
Description
Micro-mechanical description of porous media. Thermodynamics foundations. Linear theory of thermoporoelasticity: constitutive, transport, and balance laws; field equations. Determination of material constants. Singular solutions. Methods of solution: integral transform, method of singularities, finite and boundary element method.
prereq: CSE grad student, CEGE 5321 or instr consent
CEGE 8336: Boundary Element Methods I
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE grad student
Description
Introduction to boundary element methods for elastostatics; stress discontinuity, displacement discontinuity, and direct boundary integral methods. Derivation of basic mathematical solutions from the theory of elasticity. Applications in geomechanics.
prereq: CSE grad student
CEGE 8341: Wave Propogation in Solids and Structures
Course Detail
Units: 4 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Fundamentals of wave propagation theory in elastic media. Wave dispersion and packet distortion. Waves in one-dimensional structural systems: rods and beams. Waves in two- and three-dimensional media. Guided waves, Rayleigh waves and Lamb waves. Waves in heterogeneous media. Application of wave methods to structural and material diagnostics. Experimental methods for wavefield measurements and characterization. Signal processing for wave feature extraction. Introduction to nonlinear wave propagation.
prereq: Basic courses in soil machanics/dynamics or instr consent
CEGE 8351: Advanced Engineering Mathematics I
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE Grad Student
Description
Emphasizes skills relevant for civil, environmental, and geo-engineers. Mathematical principles are explained in an engineering setting, with applications chosen from deformable body mechanics, rock mechanics, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, and groundwater flow.
prereq: [MATH 2374 or equivalent], [CEGE 5351], [CSE grad student or instr consent]
CEGE 8352: Advanced Groundwater Mechanics II
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE Grad Student
Description
Applying complex methods, including conformal mapping, in groundwater mechanics; solving problems with free boundaries using the hodograph method; drains in aquifers with free boundaries; superposition of solutions with drains; singular Cauchy integrals; boundary elements.
prereq: CEGE 4351, CSE grad student or instr consent