Course ID: Engi 9799, Offered in: Spring, Enrollments: 20, Class hours: 3hr/wk
Major Topics
Introduction to Infrastructure Management Framework
- Key issues in infrastructure management
- Application of system methodology to infrastructure management
- Development of IMS; Example of a physical airport-facility system
- Overview of influence levels of IMS components
Introduction to Sustainability
- Technical approaches to quantifying sustainability
- Tenets of sustainability and relationship among major indicator categories
- Major categories of sustainability indicators and example of measurable properties
- Concept of sustainability index; The IPAT Equation, Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Water Footprint
Network Level Need Analysis and Priority Programming
- Decision making framework for asset management
- Criteria for identifying network level needs; levels of service concept; how to establish
- Prediction models for monitoring performance of infrastructure; model types, performance trend analysis, survival analysis
- Analysis of effectiveness of rehabilitation/treatment alternatives; identifying needs and prioritization techniques for short-term and long-term planning
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) Frameworks
- Introduction to life cycle thinking
- Concept of life cycle assessment, product, functional unit, reference flow, overview of 3-phases of LCA framework
- Materials Flow Analysis in Infrastructure Construction Projects; materials reservoir system – input and output flows
- Efficiencies in mass flow systems; Extraction, Manufacturing, Recovery, Recycling efficiencies
Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) Methods
- Introduction to life cycle cost analysis; benefits of LCCA
- Steps in LCCA: Establish design alternative, Activity timing, Cost estimation, Life cycle cost, Results Analysis
- Concepts: Analysis period; Discount rate; Salvage value; Determining of net present value of infrastructure
- Analysis Methods to LCCA; application of LCCA method in pavement engineering
Pavement Management Systems, Models and Strategies
- Steps in pavement management process; major components of Pavement Management System (PMS); Levels & Framework of PMS
- A brief discussion on Pavement Condition Data needs, Major characteristics of pavement condition considered in evaluating pavement rehabilitation needs
- Concepts of Pavement Roughness, Present Serviceability Rating, Pavement Serviceability Index
- An overview of equipment used for measuring pavement roughness
- Summary of pavement distresses, distress groups, and their causes; most common measures considered in distress measurement
- Equation for distress rating and overview of distress evaluation technique; discussion of Pavement Condition Index and PCI Parameters
- Pavement structural condition evaluation method; pavement safety condition measures and evaluation system
- Pavement condition prediction model: deterministic and probabilistic approaches; family-based prediction and multi-variate regression approaches
- A brief overview of pavement rehabilitation program development; various Maintenance and Rehabilitation Techniques
- Analysis methods for selecting a program of pavement rehabilitation
Climate Change and Infrastructure Design and Management
- Introduction to climate and weather, Impacts of climate change, Causes of climate change – Greenhouse gas (GHG) and their effects
- Understanding the science of climate change, Concept of Albedo, Estimating average temperature of earth
- Concept of climate forcings, Concept of global warming potential (GWP)
- Control of climate change
- Global Energy Balance and Surface Temperature Model, Climate Change Projections and Impacts