Structures Courses

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3401, upper division CSE 

Description

Analysis of linear structural systems by matrix methods, stiffness, and flexibility methods. Introduction to computerized structural analysis of trusses/frames, including coding.

prereq: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3401, upper div CSE or grad student or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4401, upper division CSE or grad 

Description

Advanced design of reinforced concrete structures: footings, retaining walls, columns with slenderness effects and biaxial loading, torsion, continuous systems, two-way floor systems.

prereq: CEGE 4401, upper div CSE or instr consent; 4411 recommended

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4401, upper division CSE or grad 

Description

Design of steel and composite steel/concrete structures, including composite beams, plate girders, beam-columns, connections and multi-story frames.

prereq: CEGE 4401, upper div CSE or instr consent; 4411 recommended 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: AEM 3031, Upper div CSE or grad student 

Description

Principal Stresses and strain analysis; failure criteria. Introduction to plane elasticity, energymethods, torsion of beams, and bending of unsymmetrical beams. Introduction to structural dynamics and stability.

prereq: AEM 3031, Upper div CSE or grad student or instr consent

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4401, upper division CSE or grad

Description

Design of prestressed concrete structures. Time dependent effects, behavior, flexure, shear, torsion, deflections, continuous systems.

prereq: CEGE 4401, upper div CSE or grad student or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3401, upper div CSE or grad 

Description

Masonry materials and their production. Mortars, grouts. Design of unreinforced and reinforced masonry structural systems. Walls, columns, lintels. Codes/specifications, testing.

prereq: CEGE 3401, upper div CSE or grad student or instr consent; CEGE 4401 recommended

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: AEM 3031, CEGE 3402 

Description

As sensors become part of practice in CEGE fields, an understanding of instrumentation and their application to engineering problems becomes essential. This course will highlight the interdisciplinary nature of using sensors in engineering applications and how previous coursework can be applied. The sensors covered will range from mechanical measurements (e.g. strain, displacement, and acceleration) to environmental measurements (e.g. temperature, oxygen concentration, and wind speed), and non-destructive techniques. In addition to class lectures, instruments and data acquisition will be explored in lab experiments.

prereq: CEGE 3402, AEM 3031 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4401, upper division CSE or grad 

Description

This course provides an in-depth presentation of topics in design of wood structures. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate and entering graduate students who have completed CEGE 4401 or equivalent. The course extends basic concepts of member design, which are covered in CEGE 4401, to wood members and simple wood structures. Knowledge of basic concrete and steel design, construction materials and structural analysis is presumed. Topics covered in the course include: wood properties and grading; design criteria using sawn wood, glue-laminated wood, and plywood; design of beams, columns, trusses, shear diaphragms and floors; connections for wood structures; and building codes and test methods.

Prereqs: CEGE 4401 or equivalent 

Course Detail

Units: 1 units

Grading Basis: S-N or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Content depends on instructor and student. Sample topics: theory of elasticity, optimization, reliability, wave propagation, soil dynamics, experimental equipment, wind forces on structures, structural failures, modern construction practices. 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Elements of calculus of variations; weak and strong formulations of linear continuum and structural problems.  Isoparametric elements and numerical integration. Basic concepts of error analysis and convergence.  Analysis of plates and shells.  Introduction to mixed methods and time dependent problems.

prereq: CEGE 4411 or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Large strains and work conjugate stresses. Equilibrium and principle of virtual work for nonlinear problems. Nonlinear elasticity and plasticity.  Finite element discretization and nonlinear algebraic equations.  Linearization and solution algorithms for nonlinear problems. Structural stability.

prereq: CEGE 8401 or instr consent; offered alt yrs 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Analysis of plate structures based on the small-deflection elastic Kirchhoff-Love theory. Classical and numerical analysis methods. Skew and orthotropic plate structures. Elements of large deflection theory and stability of plates.

prereq: CEGE 5411 or instr consent; offered alt yrs 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CSE Grad Student

Description

Static analysis of thin elastic shells based on Love's postulates. Membrane and bending theories. Thermal stresses in cylinders. Buckling of shells of revolution. Offered alternate years.

prereq: CSE grad or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: Instructor Consent Required

Description

Linear elastic fracture mechanics, cohesive fracture, scaling, strength statistics.

prereq: CEGE 5411 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Response of discrete/continuous systems to dynamic loading. Formulation/solution of problems of one or more degrees of freedom. Modal analysis. Numerical integration and transform techniques.  Response of dynamic systems to base motion using response spectrum methods.

prereq: [CEGE 3401, AEM 2012] or instr consent; concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in  CEGE 4411 recommended 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Introduction to earthquake engineering; response spectra; energy absorption capacity of structures; estimation of damping; earthquake resistant design; seismic design codes; base isolation; soil-structure interaction. Blast resistant design. Wind effects on structures.

prereq: CEGE 8421 or instr consent

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CSE Student, CEGE 4413

Description

Classification of discrete/continuous conservative/nonconservative systems. Buckling analysis of, e.g., structural members, frameworks, and plates by classical/numerical methods. Offered alternate years.

prereq: CSE grad student or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 5411

Description

Advanced theory and computational techniques for analyzing complex structural building systems. Using comprehensive geometric and material nonlinear analysis for designing steel and composite structures.

prereq: CEGE 5411 or equivalent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Advanced topics; experimental and theoretical background to design code provisions.  Moment-curvature analysis of members.  Shear; torsion; disturbed regions.  Beam column joints; shear walls.  Effects of earthquake loading. Limit analysis.

prereq: CEGE 4412 or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Structural design standards/methods. Uncertainties in structural design. Basic probabilistic concepts, statistical distributions. Resistance/load statistics. First-/second-order reliability methods, systems reliability. Development of probability-based design codes. Offered alternate years.

prereq: [CEGE 4412, CEGE 4413] or instr consent