Planning location and design of airports, STOL ports, and heliports. Air traffic operations, peformance and control as related to facility requirements. Role of governmental agencies.

This course deals with the geotechnical aspects of the design of landfills for the dispiosal of municipal solid waste. Since landfill design is driven by state and federal regulations, time is taken to review these regulations. Landfills are evaluated as engineered systems consisting of multiple components.

Introduction to seismology. Dynamic and earthquake response of soils using standard analysis. Liquefaction of soils under cyclic loading. Measurements of dynamic properties of soils. ark's Earthquake resistant design of retaining walls, foundations, slopes, and earth dams. Soil improvement methods for seismic resistant design. Current state-of-the-art techniques in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Theory and application of energy principles for plane and space frames; shear wall structures; geometric and material nonlinear formulations; and nonlinear solution strategies. Solution techniques for the analysis of large complex structures. Introduction to plane stress/strain, axisymmetric and plate bending finite element analysis.

Background and origin of modern reinforced concrete design procedures and codes. Comparison of American and foreign methods of analysis. Review of current research and projection to anticipated future changes in design and construction practices.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Residency credit for dissertation research after the qualifying examination. Students may register for this course in the semester of the qualifying examination. A minimum of two semesters are required as well as continuous enrollment (Fall and Spring) until the dissertation is completed and defended.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

Review of methods of analysis of simple structural systems. Effects of wind, earthquake, traffic and machinery loads. Matrix methods for complex dynamic structural systems, random vibrations of structures.

Individual work on some selected problems in one of the various fields of civil engineering. Laboratory, six hours. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.