COURSE DESCRIPTION
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit hours | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0867306 | Scientific Research Methodology | 1 | Skills required to conduct scientific research data collection, resource survey, analysis and discussion of information and formulation of conclusions. Styles of technical writing with application to research papers and reports. |
| A0867305 | Advanced Concrete Technology and Materials | 3 | Hydration and pore structure; uni-, bi- and tri-axial strength; special concretes and materials (properties and mix design): no slump concrete; roller compacted concrete; mass concrete; high-strength and ultra-high strength concrete; lightweight concrete; self-compacting concrete; pumped concrete; shotcrete.l |
| A0867303 | Advanced Structural Dynamics | 3 | Analysis of single and multi-degree-of-freedom structures subjected to various types of excitations and initial conditions; computational aspects of dynamic analysis; introduction to approximate methods of analysis; finite element formulation of equations of motion; advanced analysis techniques for discrete parameter systems; investigation of damping; analysis of continuous systems; applications to civil engineering structures. |
| A0867302 | Plastic Behavior and Design of Steel Structures | 3 | General concepts of plasticity; plastic bending; collapse of structures; lower and upper bound theorems; limit analysis; deflection, rotation capacity; joint behavior; plastic design of multi-story structures; seismic requirements in steel structures. |
| A0867304 | Matrix Structural Analysis | 3 | Matrix formulation of the force and displacement methods, direct stiffness method, special considerations in formulation including non-prismatic members, rigid offsets and flexible ends. |
| A0867301 | Finite Element Method in Structural Engineering | 3 | TTheory of finite element, virtual work, formulation for trusses, beams and frames, plane stress problems, plane strain, axisymmetric and solid elastic elements, isoparametric formulation and implementation, plate and shell elements, application of the method using ready software packages. |
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit hours | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0867313 | Advanced Special Topics in Civil Engineering | 3 | Structured presentation of new and developing areas of knowledge in civil engineering offered by the faculty in their specialized areas of expertise to augment the formal courses available. |
| A0867311 | Composite Structures | 3 | Design and behavior of steel under tensile and compressive loading, bending and lateral buckling of beams, torsion in beams, beam - columns, buckling of plates, composite construction, design and behavior of composite beams and columns and beam ?columns. |
| A0867308 | Earthquake Structural Engineering | 3 | Effects of earthquakes on structures and of design of structures to resist earthquake motions; earthquake mechanisms and ground motions; response of structures to earthquake motions; behavior of materials, structural elements and assemblages subjected to earthquakes; principles of earthquake-resistant design practice; soil-structure interaction; and special topics. |
| A0867312 | Advanced Numerical Methods | 3 | Mathematical preliminaries, computer precision, loss of significance, error propagation, interpolating polynomials, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solution of differential equations (ODE), initial and boundary values, linear and nonlinear systems, approximation theory, direct methods, iterative techniques (Eigenvalues), characteristics and boundary integral equation methods, curve fitting, least squares, Spline, Fourier approximation, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, numerical algorithms for advanced engineering problems. |
| A0867309 | Structural Stability | 3 | Equilibrium paths and critical point, bending of structural members subjected to axial and lateral loads. Buckling of compression members (columns) and frames in elastic range, lateral buckling of beams, Buckling of Plates. |
| A0867307 | Advanced Mechanics of Materials | 3 | Tensor algebra, theory of elasticity, stress functions, stress-strain relationships, the torsion problem, non-symmetric bending, curved beams, elastically supported beams, failure theories. |
| A0867314 | Engineering Project Management | 3 | This course provides a foundation to the practice and profession of project management and introduces students to the range of management issues that are incorporated under the term ?management of projects? such as: Project Strategy, Stakeholder Management and Selection, Scheduling Techniques, Cost estimation and Control, Project Procurement, and Lifecycle Management and Change Control. |
| A0867310 | Advanced Bridge Engineering | 3 | Classification of bridges superstructures and substructures; bridge loadings according to AASHTO standards and other standards; transfer and longitudinal distribution; modeling and analysis of bridge decks; orthotropic plate theory and its application; composite bridges; girder slab and multi-beam types pre-stressed concrete bridges; design of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete bridges; bearing systems; software applications in bridge analysis. |
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