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Inactive: Geological Engineering (GEOE) Courses

Academic Unit: Civil Engineering

GEOE 3301 - Soil Mechanics I
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 3301 until 13-MAY-24, was CE 3301 until 08-SEP-15
Index properties and soil classification. Effective stress. Permeability and seepage. Elasticity theory. One-dimensional compression and consolidation; settlements. Compaction; cut and fill problems.
GEOE 3311 - Rock Mechanics I
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CE 3311 until 05-SEP-06
Classifications and index properties. Behavior of intact rock and rock masses. Failure criteria. Stereographic projections; kinematic analysis of slopes. Reinforcement. Foundations.
GEOE 4104W - Capstone Design for Geoengineering [WI]
(4 cr; Prereq-CE 4121, CE 4311, CE 4351, ESCI 4501; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4104W until 13-MAY-24, was GEOE 4102W until 02-SEP-14, was GEOE 4102 until 05-SEP-00
Team participation in formulation/solution of open-ended civil engineering problems, from conceptual stage through preliminary planning, public hearings, design, and environmental impact statements, to preparation of final plans/specifications and award of contracts.
GEOE 4111 - Engineering Systems Analysis
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was CE 4111 until 27-MAY-14
"Systems" approach to problems. Operations research--decision engineering, network analysis, simulation, linear programming, and expert systems--is used to represent systems and assess trade-offs.
GEOE 4121 - Computer Applications in Civil Engineering II
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4121 until 13-MAY-24, was CE 4121 until 08-SEP-15
Advanced application of computer tools and methods in solving partial differential equations from civil engineering problems. The major tools are Spreadsheet and Visual Basic programming. Methods include finite differences, boundary element, finite element, and control volume finite element.
GEOE 4311 - Rock Mechanics II
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4311 until 05-SEP-17, was CE 4311 until 08-SEP-15
Failure mechanisms in rock masses. Elasto-plastic solutions applied to underground excavations. Design of linings and support systems; rock-support interaction. In situ stresses and excavation shape. Instrumentation and monitoring.
GEOE 4341 - Engineering Geostatistics
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CE 4341 until 22-JAN-13
Problem solving and decision making in civil and geological engineering using applied statistics. Emphasizes spatially correlated data, e.g., geologic site characterization, spatial sampling design.
GEOE 4351 - Groundwater Mechanics
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4351 until 03-SEP-19, was CE 4351 until 08-SEP-15
Shallow confined and unconfined flows. Two-dimensional flow in vertical plane, transient flow. Flow toward wells. Determination of streamlines and pathlines in two and three dimensions. Introduction to contaminant transport. Elementary computer modeling.
GEOE 4352 - Groundwater Modeling
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 4352 until 16-JAN-18, was CE 4352 until 08-SEP-15
Analytic element method. Mathematical and computer modeling of single and multiple aquifer systems. Field problems. Theory and application of contaminant transport models, including capture zone analysis.
GEOE 5311 - Experimental Geomechanics
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: was CE 5311 until 27-MAY-14
Machine stiffness, closed-loop testing. Small-strain theory. Measurement of deformation: strain gages, LVDTs, accelerometers, and associated circuits. Direct and indirect testing. Material behavior: experiments on anisotropic, damaged, and fluid-filled solids.
GEOE 5321 - Geomechanics
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CE 5321 until 22-JAN-13
Elasticity theory and solution of elastic boundary value problems. Wave propagation in unbounded elastic media. Elements of fracture mechanics and applications. Elements of poroelasticity and applications.
GEOE 5331 - Geomechanics Modeling
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CE 5331 until 22-JAN-13
Soil and rock response in triaxial testing; drained and undrained behavior; elastic and plastic properties. Modeling stresses, strains, and failure in geomechanics problems.
GEOE 8300 - Seminar: Geomechanics
(1 cr [max 3]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8300 until 18-JAN-22, was CE 8300 until 08-SEP-15, was CE 8300 until 22-JAN-02
Presentations on various topics.
GEOE 8301 - Fracture of Geomaterials
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8301 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8301 until 08-SEP-15
Crack tip stress and displacement fields; stress intensity factors. Energy principles of fracture; compliance method. Process zone models. J integral. Mixed-mode fracture. Behavior of cracked solids. Numerical and experimental approaches.
GEOE 8302 - Soil/Rock Plasticity and Limit Analysis
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8302 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8302 until 08-SEP-15
Plasticity of soils and rocks. Yield conditions, flow rules. Theorems of limit analysis. Static solutions, method of characteristics. Kinematic solutions, hodograph. Energy balance. Applications to soil/rock engineering problems.
GEOE 8311 - Advanced Rock Mechanics
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8311 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8311 until 08-SEP-15
Stress transformations; principal stresses and directions. Friction and behavior of rock joints; stability of frictional sliding. Elastic waves; acoustic emission and seismic measurements. Fragmentation and rock breakage.
GEOE 8321 - Thermoporoelasticity
(4 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8321 until 08-SEP-15, was CE 8321 until 08-SEP-15
Micro-mechanical description of porous media. Thermodynamics foundations. Linear theory of thermoporoelasticity: constitutive, transport, and balance laws; field equations. Determination of material constants. Singular solutions. Methods of solution: integral transform, method of singularities, finite and boundary element method.
GEOE 8322 - Storage and Flow of Granular Materials
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8322 until 06-SEP-22, was CE 8322 until 08-SEP-15
Plasticity of granular media. Static and dynamic method of slices. Storage and flow of granular materials in bins and hoppers. Stress concentrations, arching, piping. Experiments on granular material properties and flow.
GEOE 8331 - Modeling Geomechanical Processes
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8331 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8331 until 08-SEP-15
Data-limited nature of problems in geomechanics. Dimensional analysis. Regimes of solution. Similarity of solutions. Elements of fracture mechanics, elastoplasticity, poroelasticity. Applications to stability of underground excavations, fluid flow in fracture, tool-rock interaction, hydraulic fracturing.
GEOE 8336 - Boundary Element Methods I
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8336 until 08-SEP-15, was CE 8336 until 08-SEP-15
Introduction to boundary element methods for elastostatics; stress discontinuity, displacement discontinuity, and direct boundary integral methods. Derivation of basic mathematical solutions from the theory of elasticity. Applications in geomechanics.
GEOE 8337 - Boundary Element Methods II
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8337 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8337 until 08-SEP-15
Transient and nonlinear problems.
GEOE 8351 - Advanced Groundwater Mechanics I
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8351 until 22-JAN-19, was CE 8351 until 08-SEP-15
Solute transport; shallow flow in leaky aquifers; complex variable methods in groundwater flow. Analytic element method: potentials for line sinks, line doublets, line dipoles, area sinks, and special analytic elements; singular Cauchy integrals; analytic elements in domains with closed boundaries.
GEOE 8352 - Advanced Groundwater Mechanics II
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8352 until 08-SEP-15, was CE 8352 until 08-SEP-15
Applying complex methods, including conformal mapping, in groundwater mechanics; solving problems with free boundaries using the hodograph method; drains in aquifers with free boundaries; superposition of solutions with drains; singular Cauchy integrals; boundary elements.
GEOE 8361 - Engineering Model Fitting
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was CEGE 8361 until 17-JAN-23, was CE 8361 until 08-SEP-15
Parameter estimation and inverse modeling for civil and geological engineering. Formulating engineering model fitting problems; comparing and selecting various fit criteria; implementing numerical algorithms; analyzing and interpreting results using both statistical and qualitative tools; designing future measurement plans.

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