Container Terminal Gates Flexible Design for a Dynamic Environment
A paper entitled 'Container Terminal Gate Efficiency Hinges on Flexibility' was presented at ASCE Ports '89 by Larry Nye of Cash & Associates Engineers. The paper summarized the...
Computer-Aided Support for Water Quality Modeling of the Russian River
A computer-aided support system for operation of the QUAL2E-UNCAS modeling packaged has been developed for modeling of the Russian River, California. The system has been created under...
Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Analysis of the Owensboro Bridge and Approaches
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways, is working with the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to plan, design, and construct...
Design and Maintenance of Rural Water Supply Systems for Improved Performance
During the period 1980-1990 the United Nations sponsored a comprehensive effort to bring potable water supplies throughout the world. For many urban and rural areas in developing countries...
Fingerprint Identification of Groundwater Petroleum Contamination Using Synchronous Scanning Fluorescence
Synchronous scanning fluorescence spectroscopy, SSF, is a simple, cost effective method for the fingerprint analysis of many petroleum contaminates in groundwater and soil samples. The...
Urban Infrastructure: Our Crumbling POTW's
There is a need to address the problem of deferred maintenance at public owned treatment works. While specific data regarding the nations deferred maintenance bill is not available, we...
Identifying the Critical Path and Building Coalitions for Restoring Degraded Areas of the Great Lakes
Since 1985, eight Great Lakes States, the Province of Ontario, and the governments of Canada and the United States have led the development and implementation of remedial action plans...
Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Advancing Anchorage Technology
An overview of earth anchorage technology, with emphasis on current U.S. corrosion protection practice as compared to that used in Europe. Comments from U.S. practitioners involved in...
Design-Build Goes Public
Public owners of civil works get paid to avoid risk. It's their job. Why try some experimental technique for building offices when safe, proven methods exist? But times have...
Pavement Surface Maintenance: Overview of SHRP H-106 Experimental Installations
The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) is currently conducting an experiment under SHRP project H-106 to evaluate the performance of various materials and procedures used in making...
Bridge Deck Distress and Repairs
The primary cause of bridge deck deterioration are cyclic freeze-thaw exposures and reinforcing steel corrosion caused by the extensive use of de-icing salts. However, there are other...
Aerogel?A Transparent, Porous Superinsulator
Silica aerogel is an unusual, transparent, low density, thermally insulating solid useful for a variety of applications. We have been investigating silica aerogel for use in transparent...
Implementation of Material Requirements in Specifications
This paper focuses on where to find information on materials, their compatibility, minimum standards and specifying of materials and their use. The paper also presents case histories on...
The Crown and the Curtain Wall
Crowning the complex curtainwall of an 870 ft concrete tower with a 150 ft high crown of aluminum masts in concentric rings above the 60th floor required ingenuity and extraordinary cooperation...
Regional Evaluation of Transportation Lifelines in New York State with the Aid of GIS Technology
Regional evaluation of transportation lifeline facilities which may be impacted by seismic and other natural hazards is of great concern for purposes of emergency planning and response...
Minipile Milestone in Memphis
The maintenance/administration facility for Memphis, Tennessee's 300-bus fleet began displaying structural problems before it even opened for service in 1979. The 23 acre...
Engineering Pre-engineered Buildings
Pre-engineered buildings have become more sophisticated. There are several manuals and guides on how to engineer the so-called pre-engineered structures, but none are complete. There are...
The Mother of All Resilient Structures: Fixed-Base Tower in 3000-Foot Water and Some Outstanding Issues
This paper describes design and development work for 40- to 80-well fixed- base - yet compliant - towers for 2000- to 3000-foot water depths. Technical issues which are covered include:...
Re-Qualification of Offshore Platforms
Older platforms that are being re-qualified for extended service involve many technical problems that are unlike those associated with design of new platforms. Procedures to help resolve...
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