Engineering properties, materials science and applications of Civil Engineering materials: strength, elasticity, fatigue, creep, shrinkage, durability, thermal deformation; introduction to fracture mechanics; microstructure and fundamental principles underlying performance; mass transport processes, corrosion and phase transformations causing deterioration. Practical examples from difference materials sectors: steel, aggregates, cement, Portland cement concrete, masonry, asphalt concrete, natural and synthetic polymers.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s)
- Engineering 201 and one of Engineering 317 or Civil Engineering 317.
Sections
This course will be offered next in
Fall 2021.