CIVE 757 Dynamic Loading and Design of Bridges
Dynamic loads such as wind and earthquake are the most challenging ones in the design of civil engineering structures like bridges. The latter are structures offering significant scope for innovative design within the field of structural engineering. This graduate course focuses first on the understanding of the nature of the main dynamic loads affecting civil engineering structures and the way they are simplified and defined in codes of practice. Then the focus shifts on the design of bridges that are structures wherein the dynamic loads play a key role and may even affect the selection of their structural system. Other loads that have to be considered in bridge design are also addressed, and the detailed design of bridge superstructure (deck) and substructure (piers, abutments, foundations) is covered with an emphasis on the effects of dynamic loads. A key component of the course is a two-part project involving various aspects of analysis and design for dynamic loads of a bridge, using appropriate software.
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3-0-3Offered
Spring