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INSTRUCTOR: 
Ahmad Alhasan, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE

Purpose and Background

The increased number of disruptive events, changing site and loading conditions, and the deterioration of our nation’s physical infrastructure; it is more critical that engineering assessments and designs are more resilient. Resilience and sustainability are commonly used words however few engineers are familiar what these terms mean in terms of integration in practice, models and cost-effective approaches to demonstrate a definitive Return on Investment (ROI).

In this course, we will present, provide guidance, and discuss procedures to incorporate resilience for new and existing infrastructure assets with applications for pavements and geotechnical infrastructure features. The course will address the procedures to model and capture the uncertain and time dependent loading and environmental conditions which have a significant influence on the long-term service lives of these features. On the resistance side of analysis and design, we will address the impact of deteriorating assets’ condition on their resistance to changing loads effects. At the end of this course, you will be able to advance your designs to withstand a wider range of conditions with higher confidence and reliability.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe and quantify the variability and uncertainty in loading and environmental conditions impacting infrastructure assets
  • Explain the difference between stationary and non-stationary time dependent loading and environmental conditions
  • Describe and quantify the deterioration of infrastructure assets with applications for pavements and geotechnical assets and foundations
  • Describe the impact of deterioration on resistance parameters
  • Apply the basic concepts of reliability analysis to estimate the reliability parameters of a geotechnical design
  • Implement the basic concepts of a resilience-based design method to assets given non-stationary and disruptive loading and environmental conditions at a reliability level
  • Explain the difference between the new RBD and ASD and LRFD design platforms
  • Explain the concepts of life-cycle cost analysis
  • Assess the cost impacts and ROI for a given level of resilience on specific design approaches

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-test assessment (true-false, multiple choice, and/or fill in the blank questions).

Who Should Attend?

  • Geotechnical Engineers
  • Structural engineers
  • General Civil Engineering Designers
  • Pavement engineers
  • Researchers

Outline

DAY 1

  • Introduction: Resilience and Design Platforms
  • Segment 1: Material Properties and Loading Conditions
  • Overview of Statistics and Probabilities
  • Uncertainty and Variability of material Properties: Part I
  • Break
  • Uncertainty and Variability of material Properties: Part II
  • Activity 1: Summary and Inference of Uncertainty and Variability of Geomaterial Properties
  • Lunch Break
  • Stochastic Processes and Time Series
  • Time-Dependent Loading Scenarios: Part I
  • Break
  • Time-Dependent Loading Scenarios: Part II
  • Activity 2: Probabilistic Loading Condition Modeling
  • Day 1 Recap

DAY 2

  • Segment 2: Asset Response and Design Selection
  • Asset Response and Resistance Capacity: Geotechnical Assets and Foundations
  • Asset Response and Resistance Capacity (Pavements)
  • Break
  • Activity 3: Capacity of Retaining Walls
  • Asset Deterioration and Resistance Reduction
  • Lunch Break
  • Fundamentals of Reliability Analysis and Design Platforms
  • Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, design selection, and Return on Investment
  • Break
  • Activity 4: Sample Implementation for RBD: Retaining Wall Design
  • Break
  • Course Summary

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs

This course is worth 1.6 CEUs /16 PDHs. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 30 days of the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]

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