An Analysis of Traffic Signal Safety Improvements
Identifying high accident rate locations and determining that they have an overrepresented type or pattern of accidents is an important first step in the safety improvement process. However,...
Location and Development of Safety Projects
Projects to be considered for inclusion in the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) must be part of a prioritized listing in which each project is based on accident experience or...
Evaluation?A Key to Safer Design Standards
Public highways are designed and constructed in accordance with established standards which have been developed over the years as a result of research studies or developed by committees...
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...
Treatment in Your Own Backyard
Everyone wants the nation's hazardous waste sites cleaned up, but nobody wants the wastes disposed of near them. Therefore, cleaning up these problems at the site may be the...
Risk Assessment: Engineering Tool
In factoring in human-health impacts when tackling an environmental problem, risk assessment is often the best approach. Its use is growing fast. The technique increasingly is being used...
Sequential Earthquake Response of an Earth Dam
Sequential earthquake-response records of the well-instrumented Long Valley earth dam (Mammoth Lake area in California) are analyzed and engineering interpretations are made. The dam,...
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...
Explosion Hazards to Urban Structures
Manufacture, storage and transportation of chemicals capable of exploding at energy levels comparable to TNT has increased in recent years. Land areas adjoining such facilities and transportation...
Performance of Existing Buildings: Results of Benchmark Structure Analyses Performed in U.S.-Japan Workshops
In response to the need for better understanding of current safety evaluation methodologies, three U. S. -Japan workshops have been conducted on the evaluation of the performance of existing...
A Recommended Federal Action Plan for Reducing Earthquake Hazards of Existing Buildings
In September 1985 a Five-Year Plan for reducing earthquake hazards of existing buildings was submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This plan, prepared by the Applied Technology...
Soil Quality Testing in Ports: Why?
The Port of Seattle has instituted an agency-wide environmental protection guidelines which include the option to prepare site histories and perform chemical screening of soils prior to...
Mobile Cranes on Barges?A Naval Architect's Perspective
The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure for analyzing the effect of heel on a barge/crane combination in order to determine its suitability for lifting a load of given size...
Navigation Channel Design for Safe and Efficient Ship Transit
The U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) recently conducted a hydraulic model investigation of the western portion of Cleveland Harbor, Ohio. This study provided data...
Capacity Rating of Existing Piers and Wharves
This paper outlines a method for physically surveying the present material condition of existing piers and wharves and assigning to them a safe rated capacity expressed in displacement...
Effectiveness of Highway Safety Improvements
This book contains the thirty papers presented at the third Highway Safety Specialty Conference sponsored by the Committee on Traffic and Safety of the Highway Division of the American...
Effects of Deterioration on Safety and Reliability of Structures
Deterioration of structural and non-structural elements in commercial, industrial and residential constructions is of general concern to investors, design engineers, architects, contractors...
Landslide Dams
Processes, Risk, and Mitigation
Landslide dams have proved to be both interesting natural phenomena and significant hazards in many areas of the world. A few of these blockages attain heights and volumes that rival or...
Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
The importance of expert systems, also referred to as knowledge based expert systems, has been growing in all areas of civil engineering practice. The papers in this book were presented...
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