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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - CES6835
Tracking Number - 2170
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2010-03-29
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: GC approved 10/19/09; Sent to USF SCNS Office 11/23/09; Note: originally submitted with Selected Topics Number; updated so new number will be assigned. SCNS approved 2/18/2010; NUMBER CES 6835; effective 1/2010; Posted in Banner 2/22/2010
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-05-26
- Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
- College: EN
- Budget Account Number: 02104
- Contact Person: Rajan Sen
- Phone: 9745820
- Email: sen@eng.usf.edu
- Prefix: CES
- Number: 6835
- Full Title: Design of Masonry Structures
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Masonry Design
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online:
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: CES 4702
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: This course provides an overview of the design of masonry structures using concrete masonry units. It covers both working stress and strength design of typical elements such as walls and lintels and simple structures.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Masonry is the most widely used building material in Florida. As such, structural engineers need to be familiar with its design.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course was previously offered as an undergraduate course from 1988-2003 Timber and Masonry Design). Students petitioned to have it restored.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes - it has been offered 3 times to date
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D, P.E.
- Objectives: The principles for designing masonry elements and structures to the prevailing ACI code.
To review the distribution of lateral loads due to wind and earthquake
- Learning Outcomes: To ability to design unreinforced and reinforced walls under out-of-plane and in-plane loads
The ability to design lintels and bond beams
Knowledge of the basis for distributing lateral loads arising from wind and earthquake to structural elements
To design structures
- Major Topics: Wind Load
Seismic Load
Material Properties and Testing
Overview of Structural Elements – Lintels, Out-of-plane, In-plane Walls
Working Stress and Strength Design
Design of Lintels
Design of Unreinforced Walls – out of plane loadings
Reinforced Masonry Walls
Masonry Columns and Pilasters
Lateral Load Distribution
Shear Wall Design – Unreinforced, flexure and shear
Shear Wall Design – Reinforced, flexure and shear
- Textbooks: Reinforced Masonry Design, Vilas Mujumdar, The Masonry Society, 2005
ACI 530-08 Building Code for Masonry Structures
Masonry Course Notes, 2008 Edition (Student Edition)
Richard E. Klingner.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.