Bridges and Transmission Line Structures
This volume on Bridges and Transmission Line Structures contains papers from ten sessions and one plenary session of the 1987 ASCE Structures Congress. Eight sessions cover bridges. A...
Earthquakes Will Not Damage This Bridge
A California pipeline bridge has been retrofitted with isolation bearings that damp earthquake shocks. The bridge over Southern California's Santa Ana River carries the Upper...
Connecticut: A Success Story
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) had warned the state legislature that its highways and bridges would continue to deteriorate without increased funds for inspection,...
The Wet Look
The collapse of the Schoharie Creek bridge drew attention to underwater inspection. Underwater inspection of bridges gives engineers a better understanding of the condition of the bridges....
The Just-in-Case Factor
Computer analysis allows bridge designers to take a more precise look at the old structural principle of redundancy. No one can define redundancy, but everybody knows what it means. Two...
Twisting in the Wind
Wind tunnel tests are being used increasingly to test the aerodynamic stability of bridges. Many designers think these tests should be used early in the conceptual design stage, rather...
Strategic Planning in Transportation: Uses and Abuses
Strategic planning makes sense because its foundations are in good economic principles. Firms that don't do it are practicing a 'let's live for today'...
Wind Loading and Wind-Induced Structural Response
A State-of-the-Art Report
This state-of-the-art report presents fundamental and practical aspects of modern wind engineering practice as it relates to structural design. The first chapter includes information on...
Taipei Trade
The appearance of this building is remarkable�so were the cost savings. A design change form rigid shear walls to a ductile frame helped keep construction of Taipei's World...
Surveying for Scour
The public works engineer never knows exactly how many bridge piers and abutments are undermined by erosion due to scour. Massachusetts Department of Public Works needed a rapid method...
Shake-Proof Dams
Seismic trouble spots in California and along the Pacific Coast usually get the most publicity. But many people don't realize that Wyoming, Illinois, South Carolina, Utah...
New Deep Foundations Cut Costs
Two European innovations in deep foundations are highly competitive in cost, time and material. They are the barrette (slurry wall segment) and the bored pile/caisson which is then grouted...
Another Geotech Import: Deep Soil Mixing
A technique called deep soil mixing (DSM), imported from Japan, has been used to stabilize an existing dam foundation. When the Bureau of Reclamation discovered that Jackson Lake Dam had...
The Pelican, Alaska Hydroelectric Station
In August 1983 Pelican Cold Storage directed KPL to install a new 600 kW turbine, synchronous generator, controls and penstock transition section. This new equipment was to fit upon the...
Piedra Del Aguila�New Hydropower for Argentina
Construction commenced in early 1985 on the 1. 0 billion Piedra del Aguila Hydroelectric Project on the Rio Limay about 1200 km (750 mi) southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The project...
Sherman Island Hydro Cofferdam
The design and construction of an eight hundred foot long by sixty-five foot high cofferdam is discussed. The cofferdam was located to permit major renovation of the existing downstream...
Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Anderson Ranch Dam
This paper contains a description of a liquefaction evaluation of the alluvial foundation soils at Anderson Ranch Dam, which was performed as part of the USBR's program of...
Thermal Monitoring of Leakage Through Dams
The technique involves very accurate temperature measurement at shallow depth below the reach of the surface diurnal cycle. Temperatures respond to subsurface water movement (with advective...
Design of Drilled Piers Subjected to High Overturning Moments
The results are presented of a research study directed at improving the state-of-practice, and resulting foundation economy, in the design of laterally loaded drilled pier foundations...
IEEE/ASCE TransmissionStructure Foundation Design Guide
The American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) Subcommittee on Foundation Design for High-Voltage Transmission Structures was formed in October 1976. The purpose of the Subcommittee...
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