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9 CIVIL
AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
9.1.1 GRADUATE FACULTY
Professors Emeriti
Monforton, Gerard R.; B.A.Sc. (Assumption), M.A.Sc. (Windsor), Ph.D.
(Case Inst.), F.C.S.C.E., P.Eng.-1962
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.
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
Professors
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.
Budkowska, Bozena Barbara; B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Gdansk)—1989.
Assistant Professors
da Silva, Ana Maria; B.Sc.Engg. (Porto), M.Sc.,Ph.D. (Queen's)—1997.
Henshaw, Paul; B.Sc., B.Eng. Sc. (Western Ontario), M.A.Sc., Ph.D. (Windsor),
P.Eng.—1997.
Adjunct Professors
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.
Cross-Appointment
Hudec, Peter; B.Sc. (Western Ontario), M.S., Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytech.
Inst.), A.I.P.G.—1970.
9.2.1 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
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.
9.3.1 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS—
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Courses offered by Civil Engineering at the graduate level are listed
below. Students may take courses other than Civil Engineering with permission
of the Chair of the Program Graduate Committee and the advisor.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.
87-500. Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity
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.)
87-501. Advanced Analysis of Structures
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.)
87-502. Analysis and Design of Shell Structures
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.)
87-504. Theory of Plates
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.)
87-505. Theory of Stability
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.)
87-506. Advanced Structural Steel Design
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)
87-510. Reinforced Concrete Structures
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.)
87-511. Prestressed Concrete
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.)
87-512. Concrete Technology
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.)
87-513. Structural Dynamics
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.)
87-519. Advanced Soil Mechanics and Applications
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.)
87-520. Multiphase, Multicomponent Flows
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.)
87-521. Hydrology
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.)
87-522. River Mechanics
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.)
87-523. Ground Water and Seepage
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.)
87-524. Advanced Hydromechanics
Properties of scalar and vector fields; gradiant, divergence and curl.
Flow visualization. Flow kinematics: continuity equation, potential flow,
stream function. Flow dynamics: transport theorems, integral and differential
equations of motion. Boundary-layer theory. Turbulent flow and turbulence
models. (3 lecture hours a week.)
87-525. Hydraulic Analyses
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.)
87-526. Sediment Transport
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.)
87-527. Coastal Engineering
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.)
87-540. Traffic Engineering
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.)
87-590. Special Topics In Civil Engineering
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;
Numerical Methods in Solid and Structural Mechanics;
Earthquake-resistant Design of Buildings
87-796. Major Paper
87-797. Thesis
87-798. Dissertation
9.3.2 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS—
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Course offered by Environmental Engineering at the graduate level are
listed below. Students amy take courses other than Environmental Engineering
with permission of the Chair of the Program Graduate Committee and the
advisor.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.
93-530. Water Pollution Control
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.)
93-531. Advanced Water Pollution Control
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.)
93-532. Engineering and the Environment
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.)
93-533. Solid Wastes Handling and Disposal
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.)
93-534. Environmental Separation Processes
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.)
93-535. Water Quality Management
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.)
93-536 Environmental Engineering Thermodynamics
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.)
93-537. Kinetics
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.)
93-590. Special Topics In Environmental Engineering
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;
Groundwater Contamination;
Industrial Wastewater Treatment.
93-796. Major Paper
93-797. Thesis
93-798. Dissertation
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