• Arrangements can be made with Structural Advisors regarding requirements in the Graduate program.
• Listings of Undergraduate Courses available.

ECIV 421, Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, 3

• Properties of plain and reinforced concrete, ultimate strength of reinforced concrete structural elements, flexural and shear design of beams, bond and cracking, torsion, moment redistribution, limit analysis, yield line analysis of slabs, direct design and equivalent frame method, columns, fracture mechanics concepts. Consent of instructor required.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 221

• Selected topics in structural steel design including plastic design, torsion, lateral buckling, torsional-flexural buckling, frame stability, plate girders, and connections, including critical review of current design specifications relating to these topics.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 221

• Design of prestressed concrete structures, mechanical behavior of concrete suitable for prestressing and prestressing steels, load balancing, partial prestressing, prestressing losses, continuous beams, prestressed slab design, columns. Consent of instructor required.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 321 or ECIV 421

• Modeling of structures as single and multidegree of freedom dynamic systems. The eigenvalue problem, damping, and the behavior of dynamic systems. Deterministic models of dynamic loads such as wind and earthquakes. Analytical methods, including modal, response spectrum, time history, and frequency domain analyses. Consent of instructor required.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 222

• Structural design problems in which dynamic excitations are of importance. Earthquake, wind, blast, traffic, and machinery excitations. Human sensitivity to vibration, mechanical behavior of structural elements under dynamic excitation, earthquake response and earthquake-resistant design, wind loading, damping in structures, hysteretic energy dissipation, and ductility requirements.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 424

• Probability applications in structural analysis and design. Statistical models for load and strength and reliability-based design and optimization. Applications in structural engineering, including wind, earthquake, ocean wave, and highway loading. Consent of instructor required.

• Various models of structural stability. Elastic buckling of columns, frames, thin plates, and shells using energy and differential equation methods. Beam columns, inelastic column behavior, and torsional and lateral buckling. Development and evaluation of design procedures for structural instability problems.
• Prerequisite: ECIV 222 Consent of instructor required.

ECIV 651, Thesis M.S., 1-36

ECIV 660, Special Topics, 1-36

• Topics of special interest to students and faculty. Topics can be those covered in a regular course when the student cannot wait for the course to be offered.