Community Relations on Hazardous Waste Projects: A Successful Experience
Promoting good community relations is an integral part of hazardous waste projects. Before field investigations are conducted at a hazardous waste site, neighboring communities should...
Ground Water Strategy in California
There is great debate over when and how much new water California needs. Yet of the backbone supply, wells that could serve over 1 million people have been either removed from use or blended...
Reliability Constraint on Optimum Design
The purpose of the paper is to emphasize the importance of the probability concern on optimum design work. The probability of failure of the structure can be considered as one of the optimum...
Seismic Design of Braced Steel Frames
Seismic behavior of a six-story, K-braced structure without backup ductile moment-resisting frames designed according to the current Uniform Building Code is studied in this paper. The...
Water Project Design and Safety: Prospects for Use of Risk Analysis in Public Sector Organizations
After offering some initial definitions, the authors will describe a highly structured model of risk analysis and water resources decision making in the public sector. The primary emphasis...
Approaches to Acceptable Risk
Acceptable risk has numerous meanings, that are derived from its having been defined in multiple arenas and by multiple groups. This paper describes several approaches to the question...
Some Perspectives and Philosophies on Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources
The authors have selected four perspectives of the water resources decision problem that illustrate how formal risk-based approaches may be applied - an economic perspective, an environmental...
Environmental Considerations in Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources
In the hypothetical Royal River Project there are several factors pertaining to environmental issies; these factors have a bearing on selection among the several alternatives and lead,...
The Metropolitan Boston Area Earthquake Loss Study
This study develops an inventory of critical facilities in the Metropolitan Boston area and analyzes the impact of a project earthquake (Cape Ann Event) on their structural integrity and...
Lifeline Risk Analyses: The Mokelumne Aqueduct Study
Probabilistic risk analysis methods are applied to the evaluation of seismic and non-seismic vulnerability of a 25-kilometer length of a major lifeline aqueduct system. In addition to...
A Cost Effective Quality Control Program for Commercial Construction
The construction industry recognizes the important need for a formalized quality control program to assure the safety of our structures. The successful program is one in which the owner,...
Statistical Analysis of Tellico Dam Piezometer Data
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of statistical and computer processing methods as a tool for analyzing dam safety piezometric monitoring data. Statistical methods are...
Endangerment Assessment in a Multilayered Aquifer Using a Microcomputer Based Transport Model
An endangerment assessment describes the types and degrees of potential hazards to public health, welfare, or the environment that may result from the release of hazardous substances into...
Expert System for Risk Assessment of Concrete Dams
An expert system is presented that will assist a field inspector, during the site investigation of an existing concrete dam, to perform a preliminary structural risk assessment of the...
Practice of Risk Analysis in the Private Sector
Although risk-analysis is currently gaining acceptance in the decision process among engineers involved in public safety of water resources projects, the 'state-of-the-art'...
Evaluation and Upgrading of Wood Structures
Case Studies
The need to evaluate and upgrade existing wood structures stems from concerns of safety and serviceability. These concerns are caused for a variety of reasons which include plans for continued...
Housing and Hazardous Waste Contamination
Problems and Remedies
When hazardous waste sites are discovered in close proximity to residential areas, scientists and engineers are often faced with conducting complex studies involving many government agencies...
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...
Maintenance Levels of Service Guidelines
Maintenance levels of service define the threshold physical conditions that indicate a need for maintenance and repair activities and prescribe restored conditions after maintenance is...
Infrastructure: Rehabilitation or New
Basically, each public entity needs to inventory its infrastructure system and evaluate its importance to the immediate requirements of public health, safety and welfare. Prioritize the...
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