10.1.1 GRADUATE FACULTY
Monforton, Gerard R.; B.A.Sc. (Assumption), M.A.Sc. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Case Inst.), F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.-1962
MacInnis, Cameron; B.Sc. (Dalhousie), B.E. (Hons.) (Nova Scotia Technical College), Ph.D. (Durham), F.C.S.C.E., F.E.I.C., F.A.C.I., P.Eng.—1963.
McCorquodale, John Alexander; B.E.Sc. (Western Ontario), M.Sc. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Windsor), F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.-1966
Kennedy, John B.; B.Sc. (Hons.) (Cardiff), Ph.D. (Toronto), D.Sc. (Wales), F.A.S.C.E., F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.—1963.
Abdel-Sayed, George; B.Sc., M.Sc. (Cairo), Dr.Ing. (T. U. Karlsruhe), F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.—1967.
Bewtra, Jatinder K.; B.E. (Roorkee), M.S., Ph.D. (Iowa), P.Eng.—1968.
Temple, Murray Clarence; Diploma (R.M.C., Kingston), B.A.Sc. (Toronto), S.M. (Massachusetts Inst. Tech.), Ph.D. (Toronto), F.E.I.C., F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.—1969.
Madugula, Murty K.S.; B.E. (Hons.), M. Tech., Ph.D. (I.I.T., Kharagpur), P.Eng.—1979.
Asfour, Abdul-Fattah Aly; B.Sc. (Hons.), M.A.Sc. (Alexandria), Ph.D. (Waterloo), P.Eng.—1981.
Biswas, Nihar; B.E. (Calcutta), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Ottawa), P.Eng.—1981. (Head of the Department)
Budkowska, Bozena Barbara; B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Gdansk)—1989.
Gnyp, Alex William; B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), P. Eng.—1958.
Sklash, Michael G.; B.A.Sc. (Windsor), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Waterloo), P. Eng.—1977.
Becker, Norbert K.; B.A.Sc. Ph.D. (Windsor), P. Eng.—1981.
Jasim, Saad Y.; Ph.D. (Wales), P. Eng.—1994.
Hudec, Peter; B.Sc. (Western Ontario), M.S., Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytech. Inst.), A.I.P.G.—1970.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers programs of graduate studies and research leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Applied Science. Both the Ph.D. and M.A.Sc. degrees may be obtained in the areas of Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Water Resource Engineering. In Environmental Engineering research focuses on air and water quality, sanitation and environmental impact. In Water Resources, research is in hydraulics, hydrology, water quality and wastewater treatment. In Structures, research encompasses advanced composite materials, steel, concrete, and timber structures, concrete technology, soil mechanics, foundations and soil-metal structures.
Courses offered by Civil and Environmental Engineering at the graduate level are listed below. Students may, with the permission of the Department Head and the advisor, take courses from departments other than the one in which the student is registered.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.
Analysis of stress and strain; elastic and plastic stress-strain relations; general equations of elasticity; yield criteria; applications to elastoplastic problems, including rotating disks, thick-walled tubes, reinforced disks, torsion of various shaped bars; stress concentration. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Matrix methods for various deformable bodies and structural systems; direct and energy formulations; finite element method; computer-oriented solution techniques. (3 lecture hours a week.)
General theory of thin shells. Membrane stresses in shells of revolution and shells of double curvature. Bending stresses in shells of revolution, cylindrical shells and folded plates. Design of cylindrical shell roofs. (Prerequisite: 87-500 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
Small deflection of laterally loaded rectangular and circular, isotropic and orthotropic plates with various edge conditions, Navier and Levy solutions, energy methods, finite difference approximation, plates under combined action of lateral loading and forces in its plane, local buckling of column elements, buckling of plates under pure shear and under bending stresses, post-buckling strength in plates. (3 lecture hours a week.)
This course is designed to give an insight into the basic phenomenon of structural stability. Elastic and plastic flexural-buckling of columns with axial and eccentric loads is studied. Energy and numerical methods are used. Stability functions are introduced and used to study trusses and rectangular frames, with and without sidesway. Some discussion of torsional and torsional-flexural buckling, lateral buckling of beams. (3 lecture hours a week.)
This course is designed to develop and expand the design concepts in steel structures; multiple-storey frames, sway and non-sway frame systems; beam-columns; laterally unbraced beams; local buckling of flanges and webs; plate girders; plastic analysis and design; characteristics of light gauge steel components; design of cold-formed steel structures. (3 lecture hours a week)
Critical examination of design code requirements for: flexure, shear, bond, eccentrically loaded columns; yield line theory, strip method, and design of slabs. Design of hyperbolic paraboloid shells, domes, cylindrical tanks and rigid-frame structures. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Materials, principles of prestressing systems; prestressing losses; analytical treatment of the effect of shrinkage, creep of concrete, and cable friction on stresses; analysis and design of statically determinate and indeterminate structures; design codes; research background; introduction to prefabricated concrete structures. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Cementing materials—basic constituents and manufacture, hydration of cement, structure of hydrated cement paste, physical properties of fresh and hardened paste. Aggregate materials—geology and petrography of concrete aggregates, aggregate problems, e.g., alkali-aggregate reactivity. Admixtures-accelerators, air-entraining, set-retarding and water-reducing agents. Concrete mix design. Properties and tests of fresh and hardened concretes. Statistics applied to the control of concrete quality and the design of experiments. Special concretes, e.g., light-weight and heavy-weight concretes. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Formulation of equations of motion; single degree-of-freedom systems: free vibration response and response to harmonic, periodic, impulse, and general dynamic loading; analysis of non-linear structural response; multi degree-of-freedom systems: equations of motion, structural property matrices, undamped free vibration, Raleigh's method, forced vibration response, practical vibration analysis; continuous systems: partial differential equations of motion, analysis of undamped free vibration, analysis of dynamic response, wave propagation analysis. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Properties of soils, stresses, consolidation, settlements, bearing capacity, flownets and seepage, stability of slopes with drained and undrained conditions, special foundation problems. (3 lecture hours a week.)
A thorough treatment of the basic techniques for analyzing one-dimensional multiphase, multicomponent flows in order to predict flow regimes, pressure drop, etc. Practical applications in fluidization, sedimentation and boiling heat transfer. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Analysis and synthesis of the hydrograph. Streamflow routing. The hydrograph as a function of drainage characteristics; estimation of runoff from meteorological data. Snowmelt. Flow in rivers with an ice cover. Infiltration theory. Sea water intrusion in coastal aquifers. Application of hydrologic techniques including statistical methods. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Theory and analysis of uniform, gradually varied, rapidly varied and steady and unsteady flow in open channels; fluvial processes; design of channels; design of hydraulic control structures. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Theory and analysis of flow through porous media. Application to ground water flow problems. Confined and unconfined flow. Seepage below dams. Well problems. Theory of models. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Dimensional analysis, similarity and model testing in hydraulic structures and hydraulic machinery; special model laws and practical applications. (3 lecture hours a week.)
This course deals with advanced methods of analyzing hydraulics and water resource systems. Exact and approximate methods are reviewed. The formulation and solution of problems by finite difference and finite element methods is a major part of the course. Typical examples from open channel and ground water flows are included. The method of characteristics is applied to transient flow in open channels and closed conduits. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Regime approach; turbulence theories; suspended sediment; tractive force method; bedforms and bedload transport; the Einstein method; modified Einstein method; reservoir siltation; recent developments; design of mobile bed channels; design of sedimentation basins; channel degradation. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Introduction to linear and nonlinear wave theory. Wave transformation: shoaling, refraction, defraction, reflection and breaking. Wave interaction with piles, walls and rubble mounds. Computation of forces and moments. Stability analysis. Wave generation and prediction. Computation of design water levels. Statistical nature of wind-generated waves in deep and shallow waters. Littoral zone processes. Computation of longshore transport. Effect of shore structures on littoral processes. Design of shore protections. Design of small harbours. This course involves the use of microcomputers and physical models. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Basic characteristics of traffic, road users, vehicles, speeds, volumes, etc.; traffic surveys; basic considerations in traffic regulation; control devices and aids; factors in traffic design; traffic engineering functions and organizations. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Selected advanced topics in the field of civil engineering. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Current topics include:
Soil-Steel Structures;
Advanced Concrete Technology;
Analysis of Engineering Problems in Soils.
Earthquake-resistant Design of Building
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; theory and design of different unit operations and processes for water purification; theory and design of different design operations and processes of wastewater treatment; reuse and recycling of wastewater. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Discussion on recent advances in the design of water and wastewater treatment plants and new developments in water pollution control practices. (Prerequisite: 93-530 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)
Man and his environment; evaluation of biosphere; ecological balances; pollution and environment; impacts of engineering activities on the environment—land, air, water, vegetation and other living beings; criteria, standards and goals; environmental factors to be considered in the engineering designs. Consideration and discussion of typical examples. (3 lecture hours a week.)
A study of municipal and industrial solid wastes, quantities, composition, methods of disposal or reclamation, and the economic viability of the various methods related to the quantities involved. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Application of the principles of surface chemistry to separation processes involving phase equilibria, ion exchange, membrane separation, adsorption, absorption, flocculation, spherical agglomeration, sedimentation, filtration, and centrifugation. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and material balance; movement of contaminants in water bodies; modelling of water quality in natural systems. (3 lecture hours a week.)
An advanced study of the application of classical thermodynamic principles to environmental engineering practice; flow systems; composition relationships between equilibrium phases; systems involving surface effects, electric or magnetic fields. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Basic concepts of chemical reaction kinetics; characterization of chemical and biochemical systems; reactor flow models and consideration of non-ideality. (3 lecture hours a week.)
Selected advanced topics in the field of environmental engineering. (3 hours a week.)
Current topics include:
Air Pollution Control;
Biological Wastewater Treatment;
Land Treatment of Wastewater;
Principles of Water Quality;
Coastal Engineering;
Separation Processes;
Transport Phenomena;
Industrial Hygiene Engineering.