Civil Engineering and Symmetry

Civil Engineering Design Content

Civil Engineering (CIVE)

CIVE 221 GEOMETRIC CONTRL SYS (3 credits) Introduction to the theory and application of mensuration and geometric information processing in civil engineering. Measurement of distance, direction, elevation and location using mechanical, electronic and satellite systems; collection of field data, error propagation; elementary geometric data bases for design, construction, operation and control of...

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department * Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

In this paper we describe an implementation and modeling of a novel fatigue monitoring sensor based on integration of piezoelectric transduction with floating gate avalanche injection. The miniaturized sensor enables continuous battery-less monitoring and failure predictions of biomechanical implants. Measured results from a fabricated prototype in a 0.5μm CMOS process demonstrate excellent agr...

Genetic Programming within Civil Engineering

The application of Genetic programming to civil engineering design problems is relatively new. This paper both describes and demonstrates how by using a suitable form of representation based on graph networks, GP can be applied to structural design problems to produce solutions that offer significant improvements over traditional GA based methods. The paper concludes by presenting the direction...

The Department of Civil Engineering

Magnesium alloys exhibit complex deformation related mechanical behavior, viz. plastic anisotropy, tension-compression asymmetry and premature failure. Their origins are in the underlying heterogeneous deformation due to dislocation slip and deformation twinning on different crystallographic systems. The twin formations lead to microstructure evolution, strain localization and initiation of sho...