Structures Courses
Structures Courses
*Recommended courses are highlighted*
If you do not have an undergraduate degree in engineering, you will need to take these additional courses:
(These courses will not count towards your graudate degree)
CEGE 3401 Linear Structural Analysis or AEM 3031 Deformable Body Mechanics
CEGE 3402 Construction Materials
CEGE 4401 Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design
MATH 2243 Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
CEGE 3401 Linear Structural Analysis
CEGE 3402 Construction Materials
CEGE 4401 Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design
CEGE 4411 Matrix Structural Analysis
CEGE 4412 Reinforced Concrete Design II
CEGE 4413 Steel Design Design II
CEGE 5411 Advanced Structural Mechanics
CEGE 5414 Prestressed Concrete Design
CEGE 5415 Masonry Structures
CEGE 5416 Sensors in Infrastructure
CEGE 5417 Structural Engineering Design of Wood Buildings
CEGE 8400 Seminar: Structures (MS students can count 1 credit towards their degree/PhD students can count 2 credits towards their degree)
CEGE 8401 Fundamentals of Finite Element Method
CEGE 8402 Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
CEGE 8413 Fracture and Scaling
CEGE 8421 Structural Dynamics
CEGE 8422 Earthquake Engineering
CEGE 8431 Structural Stability
CEGE 8442 Nonlinear Analysis of Structural Systems
CEGE 8451 Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Structures
CEGE 8461 Structural Reliability
CEGE 4301 Soil Mechanics II (Foundation Design) (will not count towards your graduate degree)
CEGE 8321 Themoporoelasticity
CEGE 8336 Boundary Element Methods I
CEGE 8341 Wave Propagation in Solids and Structures
CEGE 8351 Advanced Engineering Mathematics II
AEM 5501 Continuum Mechanics
AEM 5503 Theory of Elasticity
AEM 8531 Fracture of Mechanics
AEM 8541 Mechanics of Crystalline Solids
AEM 8551 Multiscale Methods of Bridging Length and Time Scales
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
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