Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mackenzie Building 277
Telephone: 788-5784
Fax: 788-3951

The Department
   Chair of the Department:  A.G. Razaqpur
   Departmental Supervisor of Graduate Studies: K.T. Law

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers
programs of study and research leading to the Master of Engineering
and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering. These
degrees are offered through the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Civil
Engineering which is jointly administered by the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University, and the
Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. For
further information, including admission and program requirements,
see page 115.

The Department conducts research and has developed graduate
programs in the following areas:

*  Geotechnical Engineering
   The graduate program in geotechnical engineering places an
   emphasis on both theoretical and applied problems related to
   soil and rock mechanics and foundation engineering. These
   generally include the study of mechanical properties of soil and
   rock materials, stability of natural slopes and earth
   embankments, soil-foundation-structure interaction, and problems
   in foundation design and geomechanics. Broader programs in
   geotechnical engineering may be arranged by making use of
   courses offered in the Department of Geography at Carleton
   University and in the Department of Civil Engineering at the
   University of Ottawa.

   Graduate research in geotechnical engineering is primarily
   directed towards the following areas:

   -  Soil-Foundation Interaction
      Elastic and consolidation effects of soil-foundation
      interaction; soil-frame interaction; contact stress
      measurement; performance of rigid and flexible foundations;
      buried pipelines.

   -  Earth Retaining Structures
      Experimental and analytical studies of anchored and braced
      excavations, flexible and rigid retaining walls, soil
      reinforcement, tunnels and conduits, field behaviour.

   -  Bearing Capacity and Settlement
      Problems related to design of bridge abutments and footings
      located on sloped granular fill, experimental and field
      studies.

   -  In-Situ Testing of Soils
      The use of devices such as the pressuremeter, the screw plate
      test, the borehole shear device, and borehole dilatometer in
      the assessment of geotechnical properties of soils.

   -  Mechanical Behaviour
      Development of constitutive relations for soils and rock
      masses with yield and creep characteristics; applications to
      foundation engineering.

   -  Mechanics of Geological Structures
      Large strain phenomena; buckling of strata; applications to
      underground storage structures; hydraulic fracture of oil- and
      gas-bearing geological media.

   -  Performance of Anchors
      Theoretical and experimental analysis of deep and shallow
      anchors in soil, rock and concrete; group action; creep
      effects; prestress loss.

   -  Nuclear Waste Disposal
      Theoretical modelling of rockmass-buffer-canister interaction
      during moisture migration; non-homogeneous swelling of buffer
      materials; swelling pressures in buffer systems; coupled heat
      and moisture flow in materials.

*  Structural Engineering
   The graduate program in structural engineering embodies a broad
   spectrum of topics involving material behaviour, structural
   mechanics and analysis, and the behaviour and design of
   buildings and bridges. These topics are in the following fields:
   computer applications in structural analysis; structural
   dynamics, seismic analysis, earthquake engineering; finite
   element analysis; structural systems and design optimization;
   behaviour and design of steel, concrete, composite, timber and
   masonry structures; integrated treatment of structural,
   mechanical and electrical building requirements; construction
   economics; project planning; and bridge engineering. Graduate
   research in structural engineering is primarily directed towards
   the following areas:

   -  Computer Applications in Structural Design
      Development of knowledge-based systems for the analysis,
      design, detailing, fabrication and erection of buildings and
      bridges. Includes graphic interfaces, pre- and post-processing
      of frame analysis, load determination and finite element
      analysis packages.

   -  Seismic Analysis and Design
      Seismic response of set-back and other irregular buildings;
      computer analyses of linear and non-linear structural
      response; design of buildings for seismic forces; seismic
      behaviour of liquid storage tanks; fluid structure interaction
      problems.

   -  Continuum Mechanics
      Linear and non-linear problems in elasticity; analysis of
      contact problems in elasticity, plasticity, and
      viscoelasticity; mechanics of composite materials; fracture
      processes in geological materials; finite deformations of
      rubber-like materials; poro-elasticity and micromechanics.

   -  Numerical Modelling of Buildings and Bridges
      Advanced analytical modelling of reinforced and prestressed
      concrete, steel, and composite concrete-steel buildings and
      bridges. Material and geometric non-linearities, bond-slip,
      the advent and propagation of cracks, tension-stiffening and
      shear-connectors behaviour are modelled to predict the full
      response of structures up to failure.

   -  Behaviour and Design of Steel, Concrete and Composite
      Structures
      Analytical and experimental studies of structural members,
      substructures and connections for buildings, bridges and
      offshore structures. Development of the corresponding limit
      states design format design rules.

   -  Masonry Behaviour and Design
      Study of strength and serviceability issues by means of
      theoretical approaches, testing and field work.

   -  Timber Structures
      Analysis, design and performance evaluation of wood-structured
      systems and components; structural reliability.

*  Transportation Planning and Technology

   The graduate program in transportation planning and technology
   deals with problems of policy, planning, economics, design, and
   operations in all modes of transportation. In the area of
   transportation planning, the focus is on the design of transport
   systems, including terminals, modelling and simulation, urban
   and regional studies, traffic engineering, and geometric design.
   In the transportation technology area, programs deal with
   technology of vehicles and facilities, acoustics and noise,
   materials and pavement design. Graduate research in
   transportation is currently focused on the following areas:

   -  Transport Policy
      Assessment and impact analysis of national, regional, and
      urban transportation policies.

   -  Planning and Design Methodology
      Development and application of models for optimization of
      transport supply, transportation system management.

   -  Travel and Traffic Analysis
      Behavioural theories of passenger travel, goods movement,
      empirical traffic studies.

   -  Transportation Terminals
      Airport planning, air terminal design; bus, rail, subway
      terminal design, layout methods, pedestrian traffic.

   -  Transportation Technology Development and Assessment
      Modernization of passenger and freight rail services; soil
      properties; pavement design, multi-layered systems, low
      temperature cracking of pavements, thermo-mechanical modelling
      of fracture processes in pavements, highway design, energy.

Departmental Facilities

The structures laboratory facility includes an 11 m x 27 m strong
floor with a clear height of 11 m; a strong pit, measuring 3 m x
3.7 m x 6.6 m for geotechnical and highway material testing; a
400,000  lb. universal testing machine with auxiliary equipment for
load and displacement control; numerous hydraulic actuators; test
frames; specialized equipment for torsion and impact studies; and
a wide selection of measurement devices (strain gauges, LVDTs,
pressure transducers, load cells, thermocouples) and several data
acquisition systems for testing structural materials and
components. The concrete laboratory has facilities for the casting,
curing, and testing of reinforced concrete members. Laboratory
facilities in geotechnical engineering include both large scale and
conventional tri-axial testing, consolidation testing, pore water
pressure measurements, and model studies of contact stress
measurements. The soil dynamics and highway materials laboratories
provide facilities for studies of the physical properties of soil,
stabilized soil, aggregate and bituminous mixtures.

Computer-related equipment with the department comprises an HP9000,
several Apollo and SUN workstations, a network of microcomputers
and related peripherals. The computing centre of the University
provides access to a Honeywell Level 66 computer and SUN4
workstation. A library of computer programs in structural,
geotechnical and transportation engineering provides a significant
resource for advanced study and research.

Graduate Courses

All courses listed are one-term courses and may be offered in
either fall or winter with the exception of projects and theses.
Please consult the current course listing at the beginning of the
fall and winter terms.

*  Engineering 82.511 (CVG7120)
   Introductory Elasticity
   Stresses and strains in a continuum; transformations,
   invariants; equations of motion; constitutive relations,
   generalized Hooke's Law, bounds for elastic constants: strain
   energy, superposition, uniqueness; formulation of plane stress
   and plane strain problems in rectangular Cartesian and
   curvilinear coordinates, Airy-Mitchell stress functions and
   Fourier solutions, application of classical solutions to
   problems of engineering interest.

*  Engineering 82.512 (CVG7121)
   Advanced Elasticity
   Continuation of topics introduced in Engineering 82.511. Complex
   variable solutions: torsional and thermal stresses; axially
   symmetric three-dimensional problems, Love's strain potential,
   Boussinesq-Galerkin stress functions; problems related to
   infinite and semi-infinite domains. Introduction to numerical
   methods of stress analysis, comparison of solutions.
   Prerequisite: Engineering 82.511 or permission of the
   Department.

*  Engineering 82.513 (CVG7122)
   Finite Element Methods in Stress Analysis
   Stress-strain and strain-displacement relationships from
   elasticity. Plane stress and plane strain finite elements.
   Lagrange interpolation and Lagrange based element families.
   Introduction to the theory of thin plates; overview at plate
   bending elements. General formulation of the finite element
   method.

*  Engineering 82.514 (CVG7123)
   Earthquake Engineering and Analysis
   Advanced topics in earthquake engineering: description of
   earthquake motions, seismological background; analysis of
   earthquake response, response spectrum approach, multiple input
   excitation, extended Ritz coordinates, complex eigen-problem
   analysis; response analysis via frequency domain; design
   considerations and code requirements, earthquake forces in
   building codes; dynamic soil-structure interaction, direct
   method, substructure method, fundamentals of wave propagation,
   half-space modelling of soil; dynamic fluid-structure
   interaction, incompressible and compressible fluid elements,
   substructure method with liquid continuum; special topics of
   current interests.
   Prerequisite: Engineering 82.516 or permission of the
   Department.

*  Engineering 82.515 (CVG7124)
   Advanced Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics
   Fundamentals of calculus of variations; variational and Galerkin
   formulations: assumed displacement, assumed stress and hybrid
   elements; isoparametric elements and numerical integration;
   plate bending: convergence, completeness and conformity, patch
   test, Kirchhoff and Mindlin plate theories, nonlinear elasticity
   and plasticity; cracking and non-linearities in reinforced
   concrete structures; incremental and iterative schemes,
   geometric non-linearity: small strain‘large displacement, large
   strain‘large displacement, Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations;
   finite elements in dynamics; finite element programing.
   Prerequisite: Engineering 82.513 or permission of the
   Department.

*  Engineering 82.516 (CVG7137)
   Dynamics of Structures
   Structural dynamics, single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems,
   formulation of equations of motion, methods of analytical
   mechanics, free and forced vibrations, normal mode analysis,
   numerical methods for the response analyses of single and
   multiple-degree-of-freedom systems.

*  Engineering 82.520 (CVG7138)
   Engineered Masonry Behaviour and Design
   Properties of masonry materials and assemblages. Behaviour and
   design of walls, columns and lintels. Treatment of specialized
   design and construction topics. Design of lowrise and highrise
   structures. Discussion of masonry problems. Emphasis throughout
   the course is placed on a practice-oriented approach.

*  Engineering 82.522 (CVG7139)
   Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures
   Brittle fracture and fatigue; behaviour of plate girders;
   composite beams, girders and columns; stub girders; plastic
   design principles; frame behaviour; structural stability;
   bracing of members and frames.
   Prerequisite: Engineering 82.524 or permission of the
   Department.

*  Engineering 82.523 (CVG7125)
   Theory of Structural Stability
   Elastic and inelastic behaviour of beam-columns; elastic and
   inelastic buckling of frames; application of energy methods to
   buckling problems; lateral-torsional buckling of columns and
   beams; buckling of plates; local buckling of columns and beams.
   Prerequisite: Engineering 82.525 or equivalent.

*  Engineering 82.524 (CVG7126)
   Behaviour and Design of Structural Steel Members
   Limit states design philosophy; material behaviour; tension
   members; plate buckling; torsion; lateral torsional buckling;
   beams, axially loaded columns and beam-column behaviour; bolted
   and welded connections; applications in design.

*  Engineering 82.525 (CVG7127)
   Analysis of Elastic Structures
   Application of matrices to structural analysis; force and
   displacement method of analysis for framed elastic planar and
   space structures; symmetric and anti-symmetric structures.

*  Engineering 82.526 (CVG7128)
   Prestressed Concrete
   Prestressed concrete materials; working stress design for
   flexure; ultimate strength design for flexure, shear, and
   torsion; prestress losses; deflection and camber; slabs;
   indeterminate beams and frames; introduction to prestressed
   bridges and circular tanks.

*  Engineering 82.527 (CVG7129)
   Advanced Structural Design
   A number of topics, such as the evolution of a structure,
   structural form, aesthetics, progressive collapse, and design in
   various structural materials, are treated by members of the
   Department and outside experts.

*  Engineering 82.528 (CVG7130)
   Advanced Reinforced Concrete
   The research background, development, and limitations in current
   building code provisions for reinforced concrete; yield line
   theory of slabs; safety and limit state design; computer design
   of concrete structures.

*  Engineering 82.529 (CVG7100)
   Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering
   The critical study of case histories relating to current
   procedures of design and construction in geotechnical
   engineering. The importance of instrumentation and monitoring
   field behaviour will be stressed. In-situ testing.

*  Engineering 82.530 (CVG7101)
   Advanced Soil Mechanics I
   Effective stress, pore pressure parameters, saturated and
   partially saturated soils; seepage; permeability tensor,
   solutions of the Laplace equation; elastic equilibrium;
   anisotropy, non-homogeneity, consolidation theories; shear
   strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils.

*  Engineering 82.531 (CVG7102)
   Advanced Soil Mechanics II
   Plasticity in soil mechanics; failure and yield criteria,
   plastic equilibrium, upper and lower bound solutions, uniqueness
   theorems; statically and kinematically admissible states;
   stability analysis of cohesive and cohesionless soils.

*  Engineering 82.533 (CVG7160)
   Pavements and Materials
   An analysis of the interaction of materials, traffic, and
   climate in the planning, design construction, evaluation,
   maintenance, and rehabilitation of highway and airport
   pavements.

*  Engineering 82.534 (CVG7150)
   Intercity Transportation, Planning and Management
   Current modal and intermodal issues, including energy. Framework
   and process of intercity transport planning and management.
   Recent trends and system development. Passenger and freight
   demand and service characteristics. Future prospects and
   possibilities.

*  Engineering 82.535 (CVG7151)
   Traffic Engineering
   Introduction to principles of traffic engineering. Basic
   characteristics of drivers, vehicles, and traffic. Volume,
   speed, and delay studies. Traffic stream characteristics and
   queuing theory. Capacity analysis of roads and intersections.
   Safety.

*  Engineering 82.536 (CVG7152)
   Highway Materials
   Materials characterization and strength evaluation of soils,
   stabilized soils, aggregates, and asphalt concrete. Effects of
   low temperatures and frost on materials behaviour.

*  Engineering 82.537 (CVG7153)
   Urban Transportation Planning and Management
   Urban transportation systems planning and management. Urban
   development models ‘ an introduction. Urban transportation
   policy.

*  Engineering 82.538 (CVG7154)
   Geometric Design
   Basic highway geometric design concepts. Vertical and horizontal
   alignment. Cross-sections. Interchange forms and design.
   Adaptability and spacing of interchanges. Design of operational
   flexibility; operational uniformity, and route continuity on
   freeways.

*  Engineering 82.539 (CVG7155)
   Transportation Supply
   Advanced treatment of transportation planning and management
   concepts and techniques: transport supply issues, capacity and
   costs, evaluation of system improvements and extensions,
   transportation and development, policy impact analysis.

*  Engineering 82.541 (CVG7156)
   Transportation Economics and Policy
   Transportation, economic analysis framework. Transport industry
   output. Carrier operations. Issue of resource utilization,
   measurement, economics, supply of infrastructure, pricing;
   subsidies, externalities. Transport policy in Canada.

*  Engineering 82.542 (CVG7159)
   Transportation Terminals
   Framework for passenger terminal planning and design. Theory:
   the transfer function and network modelling; pedestrian flow
   characteristics; capacity of corridors, stairs, escalators, and
   elevators; layout planning. Practical applications: air, rail,
   metro, bus, ferry, and multi-modal terminals.

*  Engineering 82.543 (CVG7158)
   Airport Planning
   Framework for airport planning and design. Aircraft
   characteristics; demand forecasting; airport site selection;
   noise, airside capacity; geometric design; the passenger
   terminal complex; cargo area; general aviation; ground
   transportation; land use planning.

*  Engineering 82.550 (CVG7104)
   Earth Retaining Structures
   Approaches to the theoretical and semi-empirical analysis of
   earth retaining structures. Review of the earth pressure
   theories. Analysis and design methods for rigid and flexible
   retaining walls, braced excavations, and tunnels.
   Instrumentation and performance studies.

*  Engineering 82.551 (CVG7105)
   Foundation Engineering
   Review of methods of estimating compression and shear strength
   of soils. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations.
   Foundations in slopes. Pile groups. Use of in-situ testing for
   design purposes.

*  Engineering 82.552 (CVG7106)
   In-Situ Methods in Geomechanics
   Scope of a subsurface exploration program. Techniques of soil
   and rock sampling. Geo-physical methods. Mechanical and
   hydraulic properties of soil and rock. In-situ determination of
   strength, deformability and permeability of soils and rocks.
   Critical evaluation of vane, pressuremeter, screw plate, flat
   dilatometer, borehole shear and plate load tests. Pumping,
   recharge and packer tests. Permeability of jointed rocks. Rock
   testing techniques, borehole dilatometer, flat jack, cable
   jacking tests. Properties of rock joints. In-situ stress
   measurements.

*  Engineering 82.553 (CVG7107)
   Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
   Critical review of advanced theories of soil and rock behaviour.
   Linear elasticity, non-homogeneity and anisotropy. Plasticity
   models. Generalized Mohr-Coulomb and Rucker-Prager failure
   criteria. Critical state and cap models. Dilatancy effects.
   Associative and non-associative flow rules. Hardening rules,
   hypo-elasticity. Soil consolidation, visco-elasticity and creep
   behaviour of rock masses. Rock joints. Finite element
   formulation of nonlinear problems.  Iterative schemes; tangent
   stiffness, initial stress and initial strain techniques, mixed
   methods. Time marching schemes. Solution of typical boundary
   value problems in geomechanics with the aid of existing research
   class finite element codes.
   Prerequisite:  Engineering 82.511, 82.513, or permission of the
   Department.

*  Engineering 82.554 (CVG7108)
   Seepage and Waterflow through Soils
   Surface-subsurface water relations. Steady flow. Flownet
   techniques. Numerical techniques. Seepage analogy models.
   Anisotropic and layered soils. Water retaining structures.
   Safety against erosion and piping. Filter design. Steady and
   non-steady flow towards wells. Multiple well systems. Subsidence
   due to ground water pumping.

*  Engineering 82.560 (CVG7131)
   Project Management
   Introduction to managing the development, design, and
   construction of buildings. Examination of project management for
   the total development process, including interrelationships
   among owners, developers, financing sources, designers,
   contractors, and users; role and tasks of the project manager;
   setting of project objectives; feasibility analyses; budgets and
   financing; government regulations; environmental and social
   constraints, control of cost, time, and content quality and
   process; human factors.

*  Engineering 82.561 (CVG7140)
   Statistics, Probabilities and Decision-Making Applications in
   Civil Engineering
   Review of basic concepts in statistics and the Theory of
   Probabilities. Bayes' Theorem. Probability distributions.
   Moments. Parameter Estimation. Goodness-of-fit. Regression and
   correlation. OC curves. Monte Carlo simulation.
   Probability-based design criteria. Systems reliability. Limit
   States Design. Selected applications in transportation,
   geomechanics and structures. Emphasis will be given to problem
   solving. Use of existing computer software.

*  Engineering 82.562 (CVG7141)
   Advanced Methods in Computer-Aided Design
   Representation and processing of design constraints (such as
   building codes and other design rules); decision tables;
   constraint satisfaction. Automatic integrity and consistency
   maintenance of design databases; integrated CAD systems.
   Introduction to geometric modelling. Introduction to artificial
   intelligence.

*  Engineering 82.563 (CVG7132)
   Computer-Aided Design of Building Structures
   Relevant aspects of computer systems, information handling,
   auxiliary storage; design methods, computerized design systems,
   computer graphics; application of structural theory; examination
   of a selected series of structural engineering programs and
   programming systems.

*  Engineering 82.564 (CVG7142)
   Engineering Management
   Engineering management principles, including program and project
   organization, personnel management, major management systems,
   project management, legal aspects of management, communication
   problems, politics and management, management of the engineering
   competition and union-management problems.

*  Engineering 82.565 (CVG7143)
   Design of Steel Bridges
   Basic features of steel bridges, design of slab-on-girder, box
   girder and truss bridges. Composite and non-composite design.
   Introduction to long span suspension and cable-stayed bridges.
   Discussion of relevant codes and specifications.

*  Engineering 82.566 (CVG7144)
   Design of Concrete Bridges
   Concrete and reinforcing steel properties, basic features of
   concrete bridges, design of superstructure in reinforced
   concrete slab, slab-on-girder and box girder bridges, an
   introduction to prestressed concrete bridges, design of bridge
   piers and abutments. In all cases the relevant provisions of
   Canadian bridge codes are discussed.

*  Engineering 82.575-82.579 (CVG7300-7304)
   Special Topics in Structural Engineering
   Courses in special topics related to building design and
   construction, not covered by other graduate courses; details
   will be available some months prior to registration.

*  Engineering 82.580-82.584 (CVG7305-7309)
   Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering
   Courses in special topics in geotechnical engineering, not
   covered by other graduate courses; details will be available
   some months prior to registration.

*  Engineering 82.580 (CVG7305)
   Analysis of Embankments and Slopes
   Stability of embankments of soft clays; stress-strain analysis;
   anisotropy; strain rate effect; short and long-term settlement;
   methods of slope stability analysis; progressive failure; use of
   stability charts; slope analysis for residual and unsaturated
   soils.

*  Engineering 82.585-82.589 (CVG7310-7314)
   Special Topics in Transportation Planning and Technology
   Courses in special topics in transportation engineering, not
   covered by other graduate courses; details will be available
   some months prior to registration.

*  Engineering 82.590
   Civil Engineering Project
   Students enrolled in the M.Eng. program by course work will
   conduct an engineering study, analysis, or design project under
   the general supervision of a member of the Department.

*  Engineering 82.596 and 82.597
   Directed Studies

*  Engineering 82.599
   M.Eng. Thesis

*  Engineering 82.699
   Ph.D. Thesis

Other Courses of Particular Interest

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

88.514     Ground Transportation Systems and Vehicles
88.517     Experimental Stress Analysis
88.521     Methods of Energy Conversion
88.550     Advanced Vibration Analysis
88.561     Creative Problem Solving and Design
88.562     Failure Prevention
88.568     Advanced Engineering Materials

Systems and Computer Engineering

94.501     Simulation and Modelling

Geography

45.415E    Slope Development: Forms, Processes and Stability
45.417     Glacial Geomorphology
45.532     Soil Thermal and Hydrologic Properties
45.533     Periglacial Geomorphology
45.534     Aspects of Clay Mineralogy and Soil Chemistry
45.579     Research and Development in Outdoor Recreational
           Geography

Public Administration

50.510     Management Accounting
50.511     Financial Management