C&EE 247 · CEE 247Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Concept of seismic isolation, linear theory of base isolation, visco-elastic and hysteretic behavior, elastomeric bearings under compression and bending, buckling of bearings, sliding bearings, passive energy dissipation devices, response of structures with isolation and passive energy dissipation devices, static and dynamic analysis procedures, code provisions and design methods for seismically isolated structures.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 130, and M237A or 246.
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C&EE 247
- C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
- C&EE M237ADynamics of Structures
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
3 direct requisites. Showing 17 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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