ENEQ621-24X (C) General non-calendar-based 2024

Special topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 3 June 2024
End Date: Sunday, 7 July 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 June 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 30 June 2024

Description

Special topic

Title - Risk and Earthquake Engineering

This course is a postgraduate course that introduces risk and reliability analysis with particular applications in geotechnical engineering and seismic hazard analysis. The first part of the course is dedicated to probability theory and reliability analysis, with applications on risk-based decision making and reliability analyses for geotechnical systems. The second part of the course deals with probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and applications in performance-based earthquake engineering.

Students that take this course will be able to incorporate concepts of risk and reliability analysis in design of civil engineering systems. Students will also have the basic knowledge needed to understand the research literature in reliability analysis and seismic hazard analysis.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of probability theory.
2. Calculate the main statistics of random variables.
3. Demonstrate familiarity with common uni- and multi-dimensional distributions.
4. Understand the information provided by factor of safety, reliability index, and probability of failure.
5. Understand First Order reliability methods
6. Understand concepts of risk analysis and risk management
7. Understand the concepts involved in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis and Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering and perform such analysis for simplified situations.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 241 (4/6, 25/6-2/7)
E15 (11/6-18/6)
 3 Jun - 7 Jul
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 241 (6/6, 27/6-4/7)
E15 (13/6-20/6)
 3 Jun - 7 Jul

Course Coordinator

Brendon Bradley

Guest Lecturer

Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

Assessment

The assessment for this course will be as follows:

Class participation 10%
Mid-Course Project 20%
Final Project 40%
Final Exam 30%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,197.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

All ENEQ621 Occurrences

  • ENEQ621-24X (C) General non-calendar-based 2024