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Rigidity of Soil- Structure System, CIV 561– Construction Project response to harmonic and periodic
Relative Stiffness of Structure and Management excitations; response to pulse and
Foundation Soil, Rigid Method, arbitrary excitations; emphasis on
Non-rigid methods; Coefficient Credit Hour: 3 response of single degree of freedom
of Subgrade Reaction, Simplified Prerequisite: Core Courses systems; numerical evaluation of
Elastic method, Finite Element Completion dynamic response; introduction to
Method, applications on STAAD earthquake response of linear and
Foundation program and MIDAS As technological integration and nonlinear systems.
GTS NX program. Deep Foundations; construction complexity increase, so
Axial Load Capacity from Static Load do construction lead times. To stay CIV508 - Durability, Monitoring,
Test, Axial Load Capacity Based on competitive companies have sought and Rehabilitation of Concrete
Analytical Methods, Group Effect, to shorten the construction times Structures
Group Capacity. Settlement of Deep of new infrastructure by managing This course provides advanced
Foundations, Load Settlement construction development efforts topics in the properties of cement
Response, Load Transfer Curves, effectively by using different project and concrete as they relate to the
t-z Curves. Lateral capacity of pile. management tools. An introduction mechanisms of degradation of
Design of sheet pile walls. The course to the management of international concrete structures; to provide recent
will use the software programs STAAD construction projects with emphasis developments regarding damage
Foundation and MIDAS GTS NX on international economics, identification, repair materials
marketing, contracts, design and
CIV 531– Urban Transportation specifications, and case studies. In and strategies, and repair and
Planning this course important aspects of rehabilitation with composites. The
course will also familiarize students
Credit Hour: 3 construction project management with service life prediction and
are taught
Prerequisite: Core Courses analysis using Life 365 software and
Completion CIV 516 – Engineering Bridge with techniques and procedures to
Design monitor and evaluate with non-
The course will analyze travel destructive methods concrete
demand and transportation Credit Hour: 3 structures. There is no formal
network modeling and forecasting; Prerequisite: Core Courses laboratory component in this course.
trip generation, distribution, Completion However, site visits may be conducted
modal choice, traffic assignment, for the inspection and evaluation
technological characteristics This course covers an overview of the of existing damaged concrete
and operation of modern transit construction and design processes of structures in the Abu Dhabi area
and other movement systems; selected highway bridges, materials
sustainable transportation concepts; of construction, and specifications. CIV517 - Advanced Steel Design
demonstration of computer Design of superstructure and This course is a continuation of
applications related to transportation substructure is addressed with the undergraduate Structural
planning. primary focus on the application of Steel Design course. At the end
AASHTO LRFD specifications. The
CIV 534– Public Transportation course also covers some hydraulic of the course students should be
able to design bolted and welded
Credit Hour: 3 and infrastructure aspects related connections and composite (steel/
Prerequisite: Core Courses to highway bridge design. In depth concrete) beams and columns.
design aspects of prestressed-
Completion girder superstructure bridges; Students will also be introduced
to plastic analysis of steel frames
The course will present the current fundamentals of cable-stayed to determine failure modes and
technological and engineering bridges, and basics of segmental corresponding ultimate capacity
aspects of public transportation post-tensioned bridges also be of steel structural systems.
systems; the data collection covered. Furthermore, students will learn to
techniques; vehicle and right-of- CIV511 - Structural Dynamics I use commercial software to analyze
way characteristics; capacity and and design steel structural systems.
operating strategies; developing A first course in structural dynamics
timetables for transit systems; with emphasis on single degree of
passenger demand analysis; freedom systems. The course covers
analyzing the performance of public the development of equations of
transportation system; advanced motion for damped and undamped
public transportation systems systems; free vibration response;

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