Environmental Engineering
This proceedings was presented at the Environmental Engineering 1990 Specialty Conference sponsored by the Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers...
Waste Containment Systems
Construction, Regulation, and Performance
This proceedings consists of papers presented at a symposium on waste containment systems at the ASCE Convention in San Francisco, California on November 6th and 7th, 1990. Geotechnical...
Oil Spills
Management and Legislative Implications
Optimization of Structures Subjected to Vibrations
A minimum cost optimization procedure is presented for the analysis of multi-degree freedom structures subjected to steady, transient and random vibration environment. The procedure is...
The Civil Engineering Foundation ? A New Beginning
The United States' construction industry is ailing, experiencing a decline that rivals that of the auto and other US manufacturing industries. How the decline is to be halted...
Coal Gas Legacy
The remains of a former coal gasiication plant were uncovered during redevelopment of a site for the new City Hall in Waterloo, Ont. The coal tar waste was a dense, immiscible tarry fluid...
What's Wrong With Superfund
In nine years of the federal government's Superfund program, $4 billion has been spent and only 38 of the 1,175 sites on the national priority list have been cleaned. There...
The Challenge of Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain is the most likely site for the nation's high level nuclear wastes. Congress chose the site out of three candidates for further study before designating it...
Fast Tracking Military Waste
The installation restoration program, the military version of Superfund, helped fast track the cleanup contracts for four military hazwaste sites located at Hanscom Air Field, Bedford,...
The Saga of Senate Bill 2067
With the advent of the California Superfund program, liability related to toxic waste cleanup became a critical issue in California. The state had no authority to indemnify consultants...
Seismic Isolation of a Flight Simulator Manufacturing Facility
The corporate headquarters of Evans & Sutherland is located in the University of Utah Research Park which is in Salt Lake City, Utah. A major fault runs through Salt Lake City...
The Model Cleanup
Standards for hazardous waste site cleanups may be inappropriate or inadequate to protect the public health. Civil engineers responsible for remediation decisions need to know about the...
High Hopes for Cattails
As other areas of wastewater treatment go high tech, man-made wetlands are treating wastewater from small towns and coal mines. Plants are grown in about 1 ft of water. Suspended solids...
Scenarios for Land Use on Delaware Barrier Beaches
Design criteria developed from tenets of the industrial-scientific world view emphasized capital-intensive use of barrier beaches for maximum economic productivity, whereas bioregional...
Coastal Barrier Island Management in Florida
Coastal barriers in Florida have experienced the brunt of the state's rapid population growth. Excessive development of these environmentally sensitive areas has destroyed...
Dredge Disposal Monitoring by Fourier Shape Analysis
Fourier grain-shape analysis characterizes a population of sediments in terms of the shapes of the grains. The technique of grain-shape analysis has been successfully applied to the area...
Selection of Marine Bioindicators for Monitoring Radioactive Wastes Released from Nuclear Power Plants
The Brazilian Nuclear Program comprises the Angra I Nuclear Power Plant, in operational tests; the Angra II Nuclear Power Plant, under construction, expected to be completed in 1992; and...
University-Industry Cooperation for Effective Education and Research in CAD/CAM
It is well known that, for successful conception, manufacture, and marketing of a new product, design and manufacturing activities must be closely coordinated. Decisions made at the design...
Developing the Manufacturing Systems Option in the Industrial Engineering Program at the University of New Haven
The department of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Haven (UNH) is currently developing the manufacturing systems option in its Industrial Engineering...
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Robotics Education
This paper discusses the format of the present nontraditional project-based undergraduate robotics course taught to our senior mechanical engineering (M.E.) students. Students work in...
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