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Scenic Squeeze
Constructing a four-lane dual highway through the 12 miles of Colorado's Glenwood Canyon involves several engineering innovations: cantilevered roadways, unusual retaining...

Shoulder Rumble Strips at Narrow Bridges
The highways in the United States have thousands of minimum design narrow bridges. Replacement of these bridges with current state of the art designs is not cost effective nor feasible...

Transitioning End Terminal A TREND^tm for the Future
The highway engineer frequently starts from a position where an identified highway element is causing serious injuries or fatalities to motorists on the nation's highways....

Rowes Wharf: A Case Study in Substructure Innovation
Rowes Wharf is a project with many unique features. This paper has attempted to briefly review just one of these features - Up/Down construction. The willingness of the development team...

Innovative Solutions to the Challenges of Heavy Civil Projects
Each heavy construction project presents unique conditions and challenges. For large projects, the work scope may justify an extensive engineering analysis and significant investments...

Large Mat Foundation Analysis on Expansive Soil
This paper describes a comparison of predicted and observed performance of mat foundations on stiff expansive soil. Foundation performance was predicted using a new computer program BOSEF...

Design of an Expert System for the Rating of Highway Bridges
A microcomputer-based expert system used to determine the effects of vehicles and overloaded vehicles on simple span bridges with reinforced concrete deck and prestressed concrete I-beams...

Applications of Automated Interpretation to Sensor Data
This paper focuses on potential applications of the AISD. (A knowledge-based concept for automating the interpretation of sensor data) concept in civil engineering. A number of potential...

Traffic Barriers: A Second Chance
More motorists are killed each year after striking traffic barriers than any other fixed object except utility poles and trees. These deaths occur primarily because the guardrail or bridge...

Base Isolation in the Design and Construction of Power Plant Structures
This technical paper summarizes the results of some of the recent studies performed to assure technical feasibility in isolating safety-related nuclear power plant structures. The particular...

New Techniques in Forced Vibration Testing
Forced vibration testing is a well established technique as indicated by references 1 to 8. This paper describes a system for forced vibration testing developed over two years during work...

Vibration Tests of Reservoir Structures Outlet Tower and Footbridge
This paper presents a field test procedure used in determining the dynamic properties of an outlet tower and footbridge for a major reservoir. Such factors as virtual water mass, soil-structure...

Some Aspects of Bridge Instrumentation
This paper provides some guidelines about the proper arrangement of strong motion instruments for the proper assessment of some particular phenomena that have been either observed in past...

Floating Bridges in Short-Crested Random Seas
Four large concrete floating bridges located in Washington State have been the subject of extensive analytical modeling for dynamic response to storm waves. The dynamic analysis of the...

Response of the San Juan Bautista 156/101 Bridge to the 1979 Coyote Lake Earthquake
Strong-motion accelerograms are used to examine the response of a multiple-span highway bridge to earthquake loading. Estimates of modal frequencies and damping values for the first two...

Seismic Behavior of Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridges
Special features of the earthquake-response analysis of cable-stayed bridges, subjected to multiple-support excitation, are presented including a basis for calculation of seismic forces...

Seismic Response Analysis of Two Major Bridge Structures
The seismic response analyses of two major bridge structures have been conducted. In these two bridges, portions of the piles are either submerged in the water or free-standing within...

Changes in Bridge Deck Flutter Derivatives Caused by Turbulence
This paper discusses some of the results of a wind tunnel study that tested the aeroelastic stability of section models in smooth and gusting flow. Wind gusts several times longer than...

Evaluation of Seismic Strengthening of an Existing Building Using Base Isolation
This paper summarizes a study performed by Englekirk and Hart, Inc. to evaluate the feasibility of using base isolation to seismically upgrade an existing highrise building. To realize...

A Discrete Model for the Estimation of the Elastic Abutment Stiffness
The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a simple method for the estimation of the abutment stiffness. In this method, the abutment is represented as a uniform rigid plate with...

 

 

 

 

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