COURSES

C&EE 137L Structural Dynamics Lab.

• Lecture, two hours; laboratory, six hours; outside study, four hours. Requisite or co-requisite: course 137. Calibration of instrumentation for dynamic measurements. Determination of natural frequencies and damping factors from free vibrations. Determination of natural frequencies, mode shapes, and damping factors from forced vibrations. Dynamic similitude. Letter grading.
  
  
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C&EE 235C Nonlinear Structural Analysis

• Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 235B. Classification of nonlinear effects; material nonlinearities; conservative, nonconservative material behavior; geometric nonlinearities, Lagrangian, Eulerian description of motion; finite element methods in geometrically nonlinear problems; postbuckling behavior of structures; solution of nonlinear equations; incremental, iterative, programming methods. S/U or letter grading.
  
  
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C&EE 238 Structural Reliability Analysis.

• Review of probability theory and random process. Fundamentals of structural reliability theory. First- and second-order, and simulation methods of reliability analysis. Structural component and system reliability. Reliability sensitivity measures. Bayesian reliability analysis methods. Bases for probabilistic design codes. Time-variant reliability analysis. Finite element reliability methods.
  
  
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C&EE 246 Structural Response to Ground Motions

• Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: courses 137, 141, 142, 235A. Spectral analysis of ground motions: response, time, and Fourier spectra. Response of structures to ground motions due to earthquakes. Computational methods to evaluate structural response. Response analysis, including evaluation of contemporary design standards. Limitations due to idealizations. Letter grading.
  
  
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C&EE 248 Probabilistic Structural Dynamics

• Introduction to probability theory and random process. Dynamic analysis of linear and nonlinear structural systems subjected to stationary and nonstationary random excitations reliability studies related to first excursion and fatigue failures. Applications in earthquake, offshore, wind and aerospace engineering.
  
  
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SE 125: Statistics, Probability, and Reliability

• Probability theory. Statistics, data analysis and inferential statistics, distributions, confidence intervals. Introduction to structural reliability and random phenomena.
  
  
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