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Geotechnology: An Environment of Change
Today's contaminated materials�soil and water�have been investigated and analyzed by geotechnical engineers for a long time. No other branch of engineering is better positioned,...

Airport Construction: The Japanese Way
Japan is spending tens of billions of dollars on airport projects domestically and abroad through their aid programs. Examples of construction at the New Osaka Airport (Kansai), Narita/Tokyo,...

Knowledge Acquisition in Civil Engineering
Expert systems are an intriguing approach for transferring valuable problem-solving skills from the minds of human experts to the logic of computer programs. For the past several years,...

Selling to Civil Engineers
A Multiple Market Opportunity
It covers the engineered construction market, the rehab market, and the environmental market....

Stochastic Evaluation of Landing Pier Construction
This paper discusses the process of determining the magnitude of external force such as wind and wave pressure exerted on marine structures under construction, and the learning curve of...

Automated Damage-Controlled Design of RC Buildings
This paper presents an automated damage-controlled design method, which aims for uniform damage distribution throughout the entire building frame while respecting the strong-column weak-beam...

Lifeline Systems Reliability, Serviceability and Reconstruction
In this paper we present a brief outline of methods and results for characterizing the reliability and serviceability of oil pipeline systems. Further, we present an outline of methods...

A Seismic PRA Procedure in Japan and its Application to a Building Performance Safety Estimation: Part 2. Fragility Analysis
In this paper, a practical seismic fragility evaluation method for structure and equipment systems is proposed. Structural and equipment failures are considered here, reflecting detailed...

Safety Assessment Methodology for Construction Operations
There are many factors that affect the safety of construction operations which might lead to failures and accidents. The factors are associated with random, human-based or system uncertainty....

Structural Error Identification for Control of Construction Accuracy
In cases of large-scaled structures it is very important to keep the criteria of construction accuracy and therefore to correct construction errors if any considerable errors are found...

Application of Probabilistic Methods in Construction Industry
Recent attempts for theoretical development and engineering application of probabilistic methods, which have been carried out in a Japanese engineering and construction company, are summarized....

Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Metal Plate Connected Wood Trusses
A stochastic finite element approach is developed for use in ananlyzing metal plate connected wood trusses. The procedure uses linear beam-column elements to model the wood members. The...

Responses of a Secondary System and Its Supporting Hysteretic Structure to Seismic Excitations
We consider an N-story building that supports 1-degree-of-freedom equipment on one of the floors, and examine both the building's and the equipment's responses...

An Investigation of Live Loads on Concrete Structures During Construction
Slab formwork live loads include the weight of equipment, construction material storage loads, and impact loads when placing the concrete. In this paper material and equipment loads are...

Evaluation of Lifetime Risk of Structures?Recent Advances of Structural Reliability in Japan
The Task Committee on Structural Safety and Reliability of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers has made survey of recent advances in the field of structural reliability. Consequently,...

LRFD for Engineered Wood Construction: ASCE Pre-Standard, Wood Industry Initiative
The structural wood community in the United States is in the process of developing a reliability-based consensus Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) standard for engineered wood construction....

Lifetime Behavior of Wood Structural Systems
Reliability based design of wood structural systems requires knowledge about the lifetime behavior of the system. The 50 year lifetime behavior of wood floors and flat roofs was examined...

Development of a Safety Assessment System for Steel Bridge Erection Work
In order to secure safe execution of steel bridge erection work, development of a comprehensive checking system to set up safety countermeasures at the stage of construction planning prior...

On Reliability of Mechanical Logics and Its Application
Recently, most of logical circuits are understood to consist of electrical components and wiring, however, we are still using various types of mechanical logics at the end of the safety-related...

Comparison of a Practical Fragility Analysis of a Reactor Building with Non-Linear Monte Carlo Simulation
There are several conventional methods to assess seismic safety of nuclear power plants practically. In these methods, non-linear effect of the structural elements is considered with an...

 

 

 

 

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