CIVIL ENGINEERING

"Design, Construction, Rehabilitation, and Resilience of the Built Environment"

Chair: Pr Amar CHAKER (USA)

Program Description:

Major advances have taken place in recent years in: the design, construction and rehabilitation of the built environment; the understanding of the hazards it is exposed to; and the approaches for reducing disaster risk and enhancing the resilience of the built environment (resilience being the ability to reduce the impact of catastrophes and to recover quickly after a disaster).

The civil engineering program will mainly cover broad areas of structural design and behavior. Most of the concepts and techniques to be presented are applicable to infrastructure elements such as bridges and buildings, with a greater emphasis on infrastructure renewal, evaluation and retrofitting (or rehabilitation) of existing buildings, including historical buildings. The program will also cover the earthquake design requirements for new buildings. They are addressed by the building code, but those for existing buildings (a major component in the fabric of many cities in Algeria) represents a real concern, particularly due to the lack of detailed information regarding concealed original assemblies and material properties, their current condition, and the difficulty associated with selecting performance objectives for the retrofitted buildings. Additional topics to be presented include NDT techniques, and monitoring of bridges and buildings.

Covered topics:

This broad program will cover basic concepts, advanced techniques, and recent scientific and technological advances in the field, including:

· Modeling and analysis methods for structures and continua

· Seismic design principles for new buildings

· Emerging concepts in modern building codes

· Non-destructive evaluation and rehabilitation of existing concrete and masonry buildings and structures

· Advanced topics in concrete (materials, confined concrete modeling, seismic design)

· Seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings

· Non-destructive testing and ambient vibration testing

· Innovative technologies for structural strengthening and retrofitting of existing structures

· Geotechnical earthquake engineering

· Modeling of catastrophic risk

· Resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems and communities.

· Interactive workshops on case studies and software demonstrations

· Structural health monitoring of existing buildings

· Presentations by doctoral students and faculty highlighting their research, followed by a question-and-answer period.

Desired Learning Outcomes:

The goal of this AAF Summer University program is to provide advanced training to doctoral students who will be educating the future civil engineers, and to enhance their ability to conduct relevant, up-to-date research in new technologies and the use of advanced construction materials, as well as in earthquake engineering and disaster risk management, and to expose them to specific challenges, including through presentations on writing statements of research interests and vitas, useful sites and resources, ethics, and publishing.

Who Should Attend the Course?

Doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, graduate students and practicing engineers in the design and construction industry will benefit from this program.