Using Matlab As Modelling Tool For Civil Engineering Design Projects
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nelsonsainzMATLAB ACADEMIC CONFERENCE 2016
Using MATLAB as a Modelling
Tool for
Civil Engineering Design
Projects
A/Prof Hadi Khabbaz
Email: [email protected]
4 July 2016
OUTLINE
What is a Capstone Project?
Ideas for Capstone Projects
MATLAB: An Effective Tool for Training
An Example: Compare Main Design
Methods for Various Retaining Walls
A Selection of Other Projects at a Glance
Concluding Remarks
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What is a Capstone
Project?
What is a Capstone Project?
Final year undergraduate students at the University
of Technology Sydney undertake a year-long
individual design or research subject, called
capstone project. (12 credit points)
Students apply the skills and knowledge, acquired
in their coursework to a practical project.
It is an opportunity for students to demonstrate that
they can meet the levels of performance expected
of a professional engineer.
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Ideas for Capstone
Projects
Ideas for Capstone Projects
Ideas for the capstone projects can be
suggested by:
the academic supervisors,
industry, or
the students themselves.
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Approaches for Capstone Projects
Experimental Investigation
Numerical Analysis
Filed Measurements
Analytical/Mathematical
Developing Programs for Design Projects
MATLAB:
An Effective Tool for
Training
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MATLAB: An Effective Tool for Training
It has been realised that MATLAB can be used as
a highly effective tool for training final year
capstone students in Civil Engineering Discipline.
It makes the study of complex concepts more
interesting.
Complex Concepts Interesting
& Problems Solutions
MATLAB: An Effective Tool for Training
Each semester, I organise a number of intensive training
sessions for my capstone students to be familiar with
the main features of MATLAB.
They are: programming approaches and techniques,
graphics, optimisation toolbox, statistics toolbox,
symbolic toolbox and graphical user interface.
Accordingly, capstone students can quickly generate
results and then plot or animate their results via an
interactive interface, without being inundated in low-
level programing details.
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MATLAB: An Effective Tool for Training
MATLAB: An Effective Tool for Training
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QUIZ
1. How do you get the revised data of the table
when you edit them?
2. Assume the table is a large matrix; how do
you get only the data of the last column?
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Answer
TD = get (table1,'data') % table data
D = size (TD) % row and column size
LCD = TD(:, D(2)) % last col. data
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QUIZ
How do you add a sound file to
your program?
Answer
File name
[y,Fs] = audioread ('bankm_sound.wav')
% Play the audio
sound (y, Fs);
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Graphical User Interface (GUI)
1. Method One: Figure/Text Based GUI
2. Method Two: Figure/Set Based GUI See the handout for
all methods .
3. Method Three: Figure/Function Based GUI
4. Method Four: Guide Based GUI
Through a simple
example, you can
learn how to write
GUI codes as easy as
drinking a glass of
water.
An Example:
Comparing Main Design
Methods for Various
Retaining Walls
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Main Design Methods of Retaining Walls
Comparison of the Global Factor of Safety to the Partial
Factors of Safety Used by the Australian Standard,
AS 4678-2002, for
Earth Retaining Structures
Retaining Wall
Various Types Retaining Walls
Gravity Cantilever Embedded
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Failure Modes in Retaining Walls
Analysis carried out for main 3 failure modes:
Overturning Sliding Bearing
Failure Failure Failure
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A Selection of Other
Projects at a Glance
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More Examples for Geotechnical Engineering
Shallow Foundation Design
1. Global Factor of Safety
2. Limit State Design (Partial Factors of Safety)
Anchored Wall Design in Layers Soil
1. Global Factor of Safety
2. Limit State Design (Partial Factors of Safety)
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Structural Engineering
Frame Design
Using Finite
Element
Method (FEM)
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Truss Design
Using (FEM)
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Railway Engineering
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
Through the developed codes in MATLAB and
the comparison of the results, advantages and
disadvantages of different civil engineering
design problems and methods can be
identified in terms of:
Safety,
Economy and
Design Contexts.
Thank You
UTS FEIT New Building (11)
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Pile Design
Design and Analysis of Pile Foundations
under Vertical and Lateral Loading
User Defined MATLAB Model for Piles
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User Defined MATLAB Model
Pile Capacities and Deformations
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Parametric Studies
Parametric Analysis Program
A Sample of Parametric Study Results
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Environmental Engineering
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