Geosynthetics ("Plastics," i.e., Polymers) for the Common Good
Purging the Plastics
A full-scale floating system designed to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for a fraction of the cost and time of traditional methods has been deployed....
Grid Pavement
Open grid pavements consist of concrete or plastic units with large surface openings filled with a permeable joint material, typically small aggregate (ASTM No. 8 or No. 89), sand, or...
Findings From a Joint Industry Study on Foundation Fixity of Jackup Units
During the design storm conditions the soil supporting jack-up unit footings may be close to, or at plastic failure. Accordingly, the use of elastic solutions to the problems of foundation...
NewsBriefs: Plastic Lightbulb Shows Promise (BBC.co.uk)
NewsBriefs: New Circuitry to be Printed on Flexible Plastic (USA Today)
Materials: Lumber Made of Recycled Plastic Prevents Marine Borer Damage
On the Inelastic Design of Steel I Girder Bridges
This paper documents the development of a relatively easy to use set of effective plastic moment expressions and compares the performance of these equations with a series of experimental...
Construction: Plastic Bubbles Lighten Concrete Deck
People: Students' Small Plastic Bridge is Big Success Story
Nonlocal Integral Formulations of Plasticity and Damage: Survey of Progress
Modeling of the evolution of distributed damage such as microcracking, void formation, and softening frictional slip necessitates strain-softening constitutive models. The nonlocal continuum...
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Construction�State-of-the-Art Review
A concise state-of-the-art survey of fiber-reinforced polymer (also known as fiber-reinforced plastic) composites for construction applications in civil engineering is presented. The paper...
NewsBriefs: Structural Materials Made from Recycled Plastic (Bridge Design & Engineering)
Materials: Pine Barrens Bridge Features Plastic I Beams
Materials: Recycled Plastics Find Structural Applications
Use of New Liner In Water Distribution System
For years there has been interest in rehabilitation of water distribution systems to provide quality drinking water and to reduce breaks in the water system service. Much work has been...
Performance Evaluation of Damage and Plasticity Formulations for Concrete
A Softening Plasticity Model of Concrete under Non-Proportional Loading
Liner Lessons
The County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County comprise 25 independent special districts that cover a service area of approximately 770 sq mi (1,990 km�). Since the early 1990s...
Unstable Slopes Get Pinned with Recycled Plastic
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