EAS 140

Engineering Solutions

Lecture #9

Civil Engineering Case Study

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Reading for Civil Eng. Case

Civil
Study:

Jensen, section 4.5 and

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Chapters 5, 6, and 7

Reading for Lab 4:

Laboratory Guide, Chapter on

Industrial
Charting

Midterm:
Friday, October 22nd, 6-8 pm

Chemical Eng. Case study - due Electrical

at Lecture 10
Mechanical

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Civil Engineering
Oldest engineering discipline

Civil
In the good old days, everyone was
civil
American Society of Civil Engineers

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(ASCE) 1852
Most diverse engineering discipline

Tall buildings to highways to

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drinking water treatment
Common threads:
mechanics solid or fluid

Electrical
engineered and natural systems
mathematics

Mechanical

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Chemical
Disciplines

Civil
Structural engineering

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Geotechnical engineering

Industrial
Construction management

Electrical
Environmental engineering

Mechanical

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Structural Engineering

Civil
Creative use of: F = ma

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Intelligent approaches to
uncertainty

Industrial
Engineering is the art of modelling
materials we do not wholly
understand, into shapes we cannot

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precisely analyse so as to withstand
forces we cannot properly assess, in
such a way that the public has no
reason to suspect the extent of our
Mechanical

ignorance. AR Dykes (1976)

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Chemical
Engineering

Civil
Where structures touch the

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dirt

Areas:

Industrial
soil mechanics
foundation engineering
engineering geology
Electrical
rock mechanics and rock
engineering
Mechanical

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Chemical
Management

Civil
Management of materials,

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money, and people

Areas:

Industrial
scheduling
decision-making
Web-based inspections
Electrical

Mechanical

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Chemical
Engineering

Civil
Analysis and design of

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natural and engineered
systems

Industrial
Areas:
drinking water treatment
wastewater treatment
Electrical
environmental modeling
water resources
Mechanical

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Example: Earthquakes

Civil
Structural engineers

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design and implement
passive/active control
Geotechnical engineering

Industrial
soil liquification
Construction management
reconstruction with limited
Electrical
resources
Environmental engineering
Mechanical

lifelines water, sewer

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Civil Eng. Case Study

Civil
Topic: Collapse of suspended
walkways in the Kansas City

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Hyatt Regency hotel

Industrial

Electrical

Mechanical

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Civil Eng. Case Study

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After the collapse:

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Industrial

Electrical

Mechanical

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Chemical

Anatomy of a Walkway:

Civil

deck

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Industrial
rod

Electrical
stringer box beam
Mechanical

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Civil Eng. Case Study

Civil
Nut/washer pulled through box
beam:

Computer

Industrial

Electrical

Mechanical

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Civil Eng. Case Study

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Case Study Question:

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Was the fourth-floor walkway
designed properly?

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How did the capacity compare
to the code?
How did the capacity compare

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to the load?

Mechanical

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Civil Eng. Case Study

Civil
Case Study Questions:
How did the change order affect

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the load on the weld?

Industrial

Electrical

Mechanical

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