C&EE 246

Structural Response to Ground Motions

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Spectral analysis of ground motions: response, time, and Fourier spectra. Response of structures to ground motions due to earthquakes. Computational methods to evaluate structural response. Response analysis, including evaluation of contemporary design standards. Limitations due to idealizations.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses C137, 141, 142, 235A.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 246

C&EE 141Steel Structures
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
  - C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB1 more beneath
  - COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 246

C&EE 243BResponse and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structural Systems
C&EE 245Earthquake Ground Motion Characterization
- C&EE 225Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
C&EE 247Earthquake Hazard Mitigation

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.