Civil Engineering assignment

Literature review CE 340 lecture project

Due by the end of Fall 2016 semester

• Introduction • Background • Objectives • Project approach • Report structure

• State of the literature • Methodology used for literature retrieval • Academic papers • Reports • Case studies • Summary

• Findings • Technical findings • Gaps emerged from findings retrieval

• Synthesis of the findings • Comparison of various methods • Impacts of the findings

• Conclusions

• References

• Appendices

• Social effects & civil engineering materials

• Environmental impacts & civil engineering materials

• Alternative energy & civil engineering materials

• Energy efficiency & civil engineering materials

• Civil Engineering structure/infrastructure failure related to materials

• New and advanced materials application in civil engineering, e.g. polymer composites, alloy, modifiers or additives

• Sensors that can detect and monitoring the civil materials service condition

• Nondestructive/destructive testing method and application

Potential topics for your literature review