A hydrological study of the laws governing the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water in watershed systems. Meteorological considerations, precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, streamflow, hydrograph analysis, flood routing, open channel hydraulics, culvert design, pump systems, groundwater flow, and frequency analysis. Principals of mathematical models that describe the flow process in a natural watershed and hydraulic structures.
A study of the strength, deformation and hydraulic properties of soils and their relationship to settlement, stress distribution, earth pressure, bearing capacity and slope stability. Design of footing foundations and retaining walls. Written and oral presentations of student projects will be required. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, three hours per week.
Application of principles of solid mechanics to the design of steel, timber and reinforced concrete members and structures. Emphasis on basic ideas and their application to practical design of relatively simple structures according to building code.
Theory and design of beams, slabs, girders and columns as related to building frames and bridges. Introduction to pre-stressed concrete, elastic design and ultimate strength design.
Procedures for locating or relocating the boundaries of real property; records searching, technical aspects of field work, preparation of descriptions and survey reports, land data systems, legal aspects, special problems.
CE 525 focuses on GIS as a tool in Civil Engineering. The terms and concepts related to Geographic Information Systems are introduced. The management of spatial databases, particularly those related to Civil Engineering, is covered. Students will collect data using a Global Positioning System (GPS). Students will be required to use the ArcGIS Pro to solve a specific individual spatial problem that they propose based on several Civil Engineering databases available to them.
Principles of railroad location, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and operation with emphasis on track structure design and analysis, bridges and bridge loading, drainage considerations, track geometry effects, and operating systems analysis.
This course focuses on the design of urban intersections and the procedures used to evaluate the operational level of urban roadway systems. First, a review of urban intersection design principles and aspects is presented. Second, traffic signal timing techniques are reviewed and students are required to use two software packages for evaluation of traffic operation of urban roadway systems. The focal point of the course is a group design project where solutions to accommodate all transportation modes and their issues along a corridor in Lexington are sought.
Introduction to principles of fluvial geomorphology for application in restoring impaired streams. Topics include channel formation processes (hydrology/ hydraulics), stream assessment, sediment transport, in-stream structures, erosion control, habitat, and monitoring.
Analysis of flow in closed conduits and natural and artificial open channels. Design of hydraulic structures.
