CIV 414 – Advanced Construction Materials
Current Catalog Description
This course is targeted at senior undergraduate or graduate students in civil engineering specializing in structural materials. Students from material science engineering or mechanical engineering may also take this course. This course introduces emerging structural materials in construction which includes high performance concrete, fiber-reinforced polymers, calcium sulfoaluminate cement, and high performance steel.
Prerequisite
CIV 340 or MEC 317 or ESM 335
Corequisite:
None
Textbooks and/or Other Required Material
Mamlouk, M.S., and Zaniewski, J.P., “Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers,” Pearson, 2016.
This course is
Not Required
Technical Elective Option
Topics Covered
- Materials Science Concepts
- Fundamentals of Metallic Materials
- Steel Production and Steel Alloys
- Structural Steel
- Natural Aggregates, Portland Cement and Admixtures
- Portland Cement Concrete
- High-performance Concrete
- Hot-mix Asphalt Concrete
- Wood
- Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites
Course Learning and Student Outcomes
Understand the basic molecular composition of materials
Understand the basic constitutive response of materials and the determination of engineering properties
Understand the composition of metals and metal alloys
Understand the properties of structural steel
Compute various aggregate physical properties
Describe Portland Cement/Concrete constituents and hydration chemistry
Design Portland Cement Concrete mixture design under given design constraints
Compute Portland Cement fresh and hardened properties
Design hot mix asphalt concrete mixture design under given design constraints
Describe the nature of wood as a structural material
Understand the composition of fiber-reinforced polymer composites
Compute the effective engineering properties of fiber-reinforced polymers
Describe the role of materials in increasing sustainability of civil infrastructure
Prepared by
Rigoberto Burgueño (2019) and Marija Krstic (2020)
Last Updated:
10/2021