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A comprehensive coverage of flexible and rigid pavement design, including mix and structural designs, analyses of the effects of traffic, environment, soil support, and stiffness of paving materials on the structural design of pavements, design of drainage systems, pavement performance and condition surveys.

This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of design of structural elements fabricated with structural steels. This course covers design process and procedures of structural elements experiencing tension, compression, shear and flexure, beam and column joints, and bolted and welded connections. The design specifications are based on LRFD method of AISC.

The course covers mechanics and design procedures for various types of RC elements like two-way slabs, columns, and footings in concrete building systems. The design specifications are according to the code of practice of American Concrete Institute for structural concrete (ACI-318).

Introduction to pre-stressed concrete, pre-stressing systems, materials, analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear and torsion, partial losses of pre-stress force, composite beams, continuous beams, camber and downward deflections.

This course aims at providing students in-depth knowledge of computer aided analysis (CAA) and design (CAD) of reinforced concrete and structural steel structures. The course reviews theoretical background of the analysis and design systems available in CAA and CAD., CAA and CAD include analysis and design of concrete beams, columns, and slabs, and steel beams, columns, and frames. The course requires a design project of simple structural system using CAA and CAD. The design specifications are based on LRFD method of AISC for steel structures, and ACI for reinforced concrete structures.

Materials, mechanical behavior and specifications, flexural behavior and design, design for shear and normal forces, walls and columns, lateral load resisting elements, connections and joints, design of a typical structure.

Design and analysis of advanced reinforced concrete elements: Analysis and design of slab using strip method and yield line theory, slenderness effects in long columns, design of combined footings, strap footing, pile foundations, retaining walls, water tank, mat foundation, and design of torsion effects in beams.

Among the seven major disciplines, students shall demonstrate competency in three to four of them.

Relationship between climate, man, and architecture, occupant's thermal and visual comfort assessment and building energy conservation analysis and strategies, techniques to evaluate the energy performance of buildings and ways to enhance their energy performance.

Transport processes in water, turbulent diffusion and longitudinal dispersion in rivers and estuaries, mixing, transport of pollutants, self purification and waste assimilation capacity, thermal pollution, receiving water quality.

Ground water and aquifers, well-flow systems, measurement of aquifer parameters, modeling of aquifer systems, surface-subsurface water relations, subsidence and lateral movement of land surface due to pumping.

Fundamentals of fluid flow, small amplitude wave theory, waves of finite height-Stokes theory, solitary wave, wave propagation and refraction in water of variable depth, wave generation and forecasting techniques, statistical models for ocean waves, long period waves, linear shallow water wave theory, tidal flows, harbor oscillations, basic theory and analysis of harbors of various shapes.

Sediment properties, initiation of sediment motion, suspended load, bed load, total sediment load, bed forms, resistance of movable beds, flow in alluvial channels, stability to alluvial channels, aggradation and degradation, instrumentation and measuring techniques, modeling of fluvial processes, reservoir sedimentation, sediment transport in closed conduits.

Introduction to coastal engineering, coastal environment and coastal structures. Fundamental properties of waves, tides and tidal currents, their analysis, predictions and transformations. Short- and long-term wave analysis, and design waves. Coastal structures: types, functionality, limitations, and design factors. Waves. forces and moments on structures: interia/drag forces and moments; breaking, broken, and non-breaking wave forces and moments. Design of coastal structures: design water levels and wave heights; siting and layout; design of seawalls, breakwaters and groins. Design considerations for harbors and marinas. Modeling and scaling laws in coastal engineering.

Review of basic concepts of steady uniform flow, the energy and momentum concepts in open channel, flow resistance for uniform and non- uniform flow conditions, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow, spatially varied flow, gradually varied unsteady flow, rapidly varied unsteady flow, spatially varied unsteady flow, flood routing, channel routing, reservoir routing, method of characteristics, finite difference formulation, computer applications.