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Racial factors
            RT: Discrimination
            RT: Minority groups
            RT: Women
            RT: Workplace diversity
Radar
Radial flow
            BT: Flow
Radiation
            NT: Solar radiation
            NT: Ultraviolet radiation
Radioactive materials
            BT: Materials
Radioactive wastes
            BT: Waste management
            UF: [Nuclear wastes]
Radiography
            UF: [Tomography]
Radon
            RT: Indoor air pollution
Raft foundations
            BT: Foundations
Rail transportation
            BT: Transportation management
Railroad engineering
            BT: Transportation engineering
Railroad grade crossings
            BT: Crossings
Railroad stations
            BT: Terminal facilities
Railroad ties
Railroad tracks
Railroad trains
Rainfall
            BT: Precipitation
Rainfall duration
Rainfall frequency
            NT: Frequency
Rainfall intensity
Rainfall-runoff relationships
Ramps
            BT: Highways and roads
Random processes
Random waves
            BT: Waves
Rangeland
            UF: [Grazing land]
            UF: [Pasture]
Rapid transit railways
Rapid transit systems
            BT: Public transportation
Rates
            NT: Flow rates
            NT: Loading rate
            NT: Strain rate
            NT: Transport rate
Ratings
            RT: Evaluation
Ratio
            NT: Benefit cost ratios
            NT: California bearing ratio
            NT: Poisson ratio
            NT: Slenderness ratio
            NT: Void ratio
Rayleigh waves
            BT: Waves
Reactors
            NT: Nuclear reactors
            UF: [Vats]
Reaeration
            BT: Aeration
Real estate properties
            RT: Land development
[Rebars]
            Use: Structure reinforcement
Receiving water
            BT: Water
Recharge basins
            BT: Basins
            RT: Recharge wells
Recharge wells
            BT: Wells
            RT: Recharge basins
Recirculation
            RT: Circulation
Reclamation
            NT: Land reclamation
            NT: Water reclamation
Reconnaissance
            NT: Space reconnaissance
Reconstruction
            RT: Construction
Recreation
            NT: Boating
            NT: Sports
            RT: Tourism
Recreational facilities
            BT: Facilities
            RT: Parks
Recruiting
            RT: Affirmative action
            RT: Employment
            RT: Equal employment opportunity
Recycling
            RT: Water reclamation
            RT: Renewable resources
            UF: [Byproduct utilization]
            UF: [Waste utilization]
Redundancy
Reefs
            BT: Breakwaters
Reflectance
            NT: Spectral reflectance
Reflection
            NT: Wave reflection
Refraction
            NT: Wave refraction
Regional analysis
            BT: Analysis
Regional development
Registration
Regression analysis
            BT: Analysis
Regression models
            BT: Models
Regulated flow
            BT: Flow
Regulations
            RT: Laws
            RT: Permits
Rehabilitation
            UF: [Repairing]
            UF: [Retrofitting]
Reinforced Concrete
            BT: Concrete
            UF: [Ferrocement]
[Reinforced earth]
            Use: Soil stabilization
[Reinforced soils]
            Use: Soil stabilization
Reinforcement
            NT: Structure reinforcement
Reinforcing steels
            BT: Steel
Relative density
            BT: Density
Relaxation, mechanics
            RT: Stress relaxation
Reliability
            NT: Structural reliability
            NT: System reliability
Relocation
Remedial action
            RT: Abatement and removal
Remote control
            BT: Control
Remote sensing
            RT: Monitoring
            RT: Tracking
Renewable resources
            BT: Natural resources
            RT: Sustainable development
            RT: Recycling
Renovation
            RT: Restoration
Rental
            RT: Leasing
[Repairing]
            Use: Rehabilitation
Repeated loads
            BT: Loads
Replacement   (SN: of structures, systems and equipment)
Reports
Research
Research needs
Reservoir design
            BT: Design
Reservoir operation
            BT: Operation
Reservoirs
            NT: Detention reservoirs
Residence time
            BT: Time factors
Resident engineers
            BT: Engineers
Residential location
            BT: Location
Residual soils
            BT: Soils
Residual strength
            BT: Strength
Residual stress
            BT: Stress
Resilient modulus
Resins
            NT: Epoxy resins
Resistance
            NT: Corrosion resistance
            NT: Fire resistance
            NT: Flow resistance
            NT: Friction resistance
            NT: Load resistance
            NT: Penetration resistance
            NT: Pull-out resistance
            NT: Shaft resistance, piles
            NT: Shear resistance
            NT: Skid resistance
            NT: Soil resistance
            NT: Thermal resistance
            NT: Uplift resistance
Resonance
Resource allocation
Resource management
            BT: Management
            RT: Natural resources
Response spectra
            BT: Spectra
Response time
            BT: Time factors
Restoration
            RT: Renovation
Restraint systems
            NT: Tieback restraint systems
Retaining walls
            BT: Walls
Retention
Retention basins
            BT: Basins
Retention time
            BT: Time factors
Retirement
            RT: Pensions
[Retrofitting]
            Use: Rehabilitation
Return flow
            BT: Flow
Revenues
            RT: Budgets
Revetments
Reviews
            NT: Peer review
            NT: State-of-the-art reviews
Reynolds number
Reynolds stress
            BT: Stress
Rheology
Rhode Island
            BT: United States
Ridership
            RT: Public transportation
Right of way, land
Right of way, traffic
Rigid frames
            BT: Frames
Rigid pavements
            BT: Pavements
Rigid pipes
            BT: Pipes
Rigid-body dynamics
            BT: Dynamics
Rigidity
Rings
Rio Grande
            BT: Rivers
Rip currents
            BT: Currents
Riparian land
Riparian rights
            RT: Water rights
Riparian water
            BT: Water
Ripple marks
            RT: Bed ripples
Riprap
            BT: Foundations
Risk management
            BT: Management
River bank erosion
            BT: Erosion
River bank stabilization
            BT: Stabilization
River basins
            BT: Basins
River beds
            BT: Beds
River crossings
            BT: Crossings
River flow
            BT: Flow
River systems
Riverine bars
            RT: Sandbars
Rivers
            NT: Colorado River
            NT: Columbia River
            NT: Hudson River
            NT: Mississippi River
            NT: Missouri River
            NT: Niagara River
            NT: Nile River
            NT: Ohio River
            NT: Potomac River
            NT: Rio Grande
            NT: St. Lawrence River
            RT: Backwater
            RT: Estuaries
            RT: Headwaters
            RT: Streams
            RT: Waterways
Rivets
Road curvature
            BT: Curvature
Roadbeds
            BT: Beds
Roadside hazards
            BT: Hazards
Robotics
Rock fills
            BT: Fills
Rock joints
            BT: Joints
Rock masses
            BT: Mass
Rock mechanics
            BT: Mechanics
Rock structures
            BT: Structures
Rockfill structures
            BT: Structures
Rocks
            NT: Bedrock
            NT: Boulders
            NT: Carbonate rocks
            NT: Kaolin
            NT: Shale
Rocky Mountains
            BT: Mountains
Rods
Roller-compacted concrete
            BT: Concrete
Romania
            BT: Europe
Roof failures
            BT: Failures
Roofs
Rotation
Rotational flow
            BT: Flow
Roughness
            NT: Bed roughness
            NT: Hydraulic roughness
            NT: Surface roughness
[Roundabouts]
            Use: Intersections
Route preferences
            RT: Travel patterns
Routing
            NT: Flood routing
Rubber
Runoff
            RT: Water pollution
Rural areas
Russia (after 1991)
            BT: Europe

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