What is an Expert System
Knowledge-based expert systems (KBES) have created much excitement in the civil engineering computer user community. KBES evoke expectations of full-blown Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
The Forms and Variations of the CM System
The CM system has slowly acquired identity and definition since its spontaneous and controversial start nearly two decades ago. The numerous proprietary forms and variations of the system,...
Defining the Infrastructure Problem?The Local View
The Governor's report defines infrastructure as 'the collective network of physical facilities and their maintenance necessary to sustain economic growth and...
Maintaining Our Goals
Setting goals is easier than achieving them and, once achieved, they must not be viewed as final accomplishments to put behind us - they must be sustained. Although goals are essentially...
Who is Managing the Rebuilding of our Infrastructure
Determining the nationwide infrastructure needs and identifying the organizations responsible for this assessment are complex processes. Yet, if this nation is to have an organized, orderly...
The Calculation of Ice Forces on Arctic Structures
Results of tests conducted to determine the relationship between uniaxial compressive strength of ice and crushing force are presented. A plot of normalized uniaxial compressive strength...
Methods for Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Networks
A detailed review of the literature reveals that there is currently no universally accepted definition or measure of reliability for water distribution networks. The purpose of this paper...
Shop Drawing Review: Minimizing the Risks
Individual designers, professional liability insurers, and professional organizations have tried to define the designers approval responsibilities for shop drawing review in clear, workable...
Transit Operations Input to Project Planning and Design
The rationale for most public transportation projects is a requirement imposed on the operating agency by an existing or expected service demand. These expected operations may be intended...
Analyzing Combined Sewer Overflow Events
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency/Illinois Pollution Control Board (ILEPA/IPCB) direct that combined sewer system overflows (CSO) be given sufficient treatment including 'first...
The Resident Engineer?Experience and Judgment
This paper gives the author's definition of the Resident Engineer. The duties, responsibilities, qualifications and authority of the U. S. Naval officers assigned as Resident...
The Role of the Resident Engineer
These proceedings include the papers presented at the specialty conference on resident engineers. The papers address different perceptions of the definition, qualifications, duties, responsibilities,...
A Pseudo Response Spectrum Method for Mark I Loads
A pseudo base motion response spectrum method is developed to uniquely evaluate the periodic condensation oscillation and chugging drag loads that may occur on submerged structures within...
Slurry Pipeline Control Systems
The paper documents the La Perla-Hercules pipeline and its control system. This eight and fourteen-inch, 382-kilometer iron ore concentrate slurry pipeline was commissioned in June of...
Toward Interactive Color-Shaded Rendering in CAD
A software package (CATSIG) is described which allows the user to interactively color shade geometric objects created on a sophisticated commercial CAD system (CATIA). The novel features...
Automated Analysis Model Generation
The state of development of the capabilities needed to automatically link the geometric definition of a CAD system to finite element analysis is discussed. Areas considered include fully...
Fundamentals of Agitation Dredging
The definition and basic principles of agitation dredging are discussed. Equipment for agitation dredging is categorized. The principles of operation, advantages, and disadvantages of...
Consulting Engineering
How Can Manual 45 be Improved?
Introductory Manual on Computer Services
The role of computers in civil engineering is discussed including an overview of computer use, and comparisons of expectations, advantages, and shortcomings of computer use. Future technical...
Quality Assurance for Cold Regions Construction
Quality Assurance for cold regions construction begins at the design stage. Unique civil, structural, material and equipment requirements for the severe arctic environment and continuous/discontinuous...
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