Desktop Publishing for the Design Firm
Desktop publishing lets engineering firms put together reports with high-quality text and graphics in-house. Presentations and publications can be produced with greater flexibility at...
Do the Right Thing
Engineers and scientists at the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) are developing software to support water resource and environmental decision...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1989
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1989
The 1989 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1989. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
The Pros and Cons of Public Education
Today, engineers work for a public that has lost faith in the government's ability to spend money efficiently and to contain pollutants effectively. Many engineers now see...
Avoiding Transportation Future Shock
Seattle, Washington's regional government planning group, called METRO, has undertaken a future scenarios approach to transportation planning. Working with an outside panel...
Information Needs for Policy, Planning and Design
This resource paper was presented specifically as a focus of discussion for probe group II, Information Needs for Policy, Planning and Design. The paper represents the freight planning...
The Fabrication and Erection of the Minneapolis Convention Center
A new convention center is part of the City of Minneapolis' successful plan to maintain an economically strong downtown core. It is the latest addition to a list of civic...
Numerical Methods for Solution of Finite Element Systems
A personal summary of solution methods for the static and dynamic analysis of finite element systems, which have been developed during the past 30 years, will be given. Numerical techniques...
Extensions of Finite Element Technology for Automated Design
The finite element method, by itself, is an efficient analysis tool with which we can judge the quality of a proposed design. However, by coupling finite element analysis with numerical...
Object-Oriented Design of Finite Element Programs
This paper describes an implementation of the finite element method based on computational abstractions of both mathematical and engineering concepts. In contrast with conventional approaches,...
A Family of Concurrent Algorithms for Transient Finite Element Solutions
We derive a family of methods for solving the equations of motion arising in structural dynamics which makes effective use of the architecture of concurrent computers. The algorithm is...
A Portable Parallel Equation Solver for Finite-Element Based Structural Analysis-Synthesis Codes
Substructuring formulation using adjoint variable approach has been developed for design sensitivity analysis and optimizations of large scale structures. In this paper, a global-local...
Computational Strategies for Finite Element Simulations on Supercomputers with 4 to 65,536 Processors
We present a general approach to the design of next generation finite element software. We describe several parallel computational strategies for both implicit and explicit computations,...
Parallel Computations for Automated Finite Element Modeling
This paper discusses initial efforts to combine an automatic mesh generator and element by element solution approaches to produce efficient parallel computational procedures on adaptively,...
Applications of Fuzzy Mathematical Programming in Structural Optimization
In this paper, several applications of fuzzy mathematical programming in structural optimization are reviewed and discussed. In addition, a formulation of optimum earthquake resistant...
Nonlinear Structural Analysis by Complementary Energy Minimization
New analysis methods for truss and continuous beam considering material nonlinearity are developed on the basis of the principle of minimum complementary energy and mathematical programming...
A Prototype Expert System for Steel Connections
A PC-based, menu-driven, five-module prototype knowledge-based system has been developed for steel connections. The system can solve various steel connection problems by utilizing the...
Early Integration of Computational Methods in the Engineering Curriculum
Practicing civil engineers are continuing to take greater advantage of computers to solve structural problems of increasing complexity. To prepare for practice, engineering students must...
Vector Optimization of Structural Systems
In this paper the basic ideas of vector optimization are presented, and both the weighting and constraint methods are applied to vector optimization of truss systems by minimizing the...
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