Selected topics and procedures of the hydrological cycle. Planning, development, and management of water resource surface systems. Energy and momentum principles, critical flow computations and applications, design of channels, computations of gradually varied, spatially varied, and rapidly varied flows. Application of hydraulic principles to the design of dams, water courses, water systems, and their related structures and devices. Methods of design and construction of various geotechnical engineering projects, utilizing theory of soil mechanics.
Emphasis is placed on the fields of slope stability, pile foundation, seepage and soil dynamics.
Graduate students will be required to do additional readings from journals, research reports and advanced texts, and write a research term paper to deal with current topics in geotechnical engineering, including soil remediation for waste treatment and landfill, and soil dynamics problems in foundations and earthquake engineering. Detailed design of components with typical codes and specifications. Design of stressed skin panels, supporting members, frames and their connections. Applications to timber structures and concrete formwork. Graduate students will be required to do required readings and term paper linking material and structural behavior to design codes, applications.