Simplified Model for Micro-Hydro Feasibility
A computer model was developed for evaluating the preliminary hydraulic and economic feasibility of potential micro-hydro development sites. Among the main objectives of the model are...
The Impact of Proposed Federal Income Tax Changes on the Financing of Hydroelectric Projects
The paper presents an overview of the specific proposed changes that would have the greatest direct impact on the hydroelectric power industry. Next, it presents the major conclusions...
LRFD Format for Transmission Structures
The structural design of high voltage electric transmission lines in the US is usually governed by the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC). A simple reliability-based Load and Resistance...
Wind Loads on Electrical Transmission Structures
Guidelines for structural loads on electrical transmission structures were prepared by the American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee on Electrical Transmission Structures....
A Field Study of Wind-Induced Conductor Loads
A 161 kV steel pole line in Omaha, Nebraska, is instrumented to provide conductor load field data due to climatic events. Various transducers and monitoring equipment used for data acquisition...
Design of Drilled Piers Subjected to High Overturning Moments
The results are presented of a research study directed at improving the state-of-practice, and resulting foundation economy, in the design of laterally loaded drilled pier foundations...
TLMRF Research Initiatives
The research initiatives of the EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) structural development project RP2016-03 are described. The interrelationship of these initiatives with cosponsored...
Strength Data Base for LRFD of Transmission Lines
Reliability-Based Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) has been proposed as a desirable alternative or a complement to the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) for the structural...
Snow Load Design for Colorado Mountains
During the past decade, Colorado mountain construction has experienced a period of rapid growth. New ski resorts and other business developments have resulted in many new facilities. For...
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Preliminary Structural Design
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) deals with the problems of modeling human intelligence. The application of AI to structural engineering has been limited, but potential applications...
Interactive Analysis and Design Program for Girder Bridges
An interactive microcomputer program for the analysis, design, and rating of girder bridges is presented. The program, GBRIDGE, is user-friendly, menu-driven, and developed in modular...
Improved Method for the Dynamic Response of Bilinear Systems
A procedure is presented to eliminate the error introduced in the step-by-step numerical integration of the equations of motion of hysteretic bilinear systems subjected to earthquake excitations...
Interactive Computer Graphic Seismic Design of Frames
An interactive computer graphics approach for earthquake resistant design of two and three-dimensional steel frames is presented. Analysis and design are possible from code-related equivalent...
Integrated Design of Concrete Flat Plate Structures
An integrated structural design and drafting system for concrete flat plate floor systems is described. This system provides at a single computer workstation the tools necessary to layout...
How To Design Highway Retaining Walls?A Practical Application of CADD
The recent work developed at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) including optimization algorithms and two computer programs, ODSEWS-2D-II and ODRESB-3D are discussed. Several numerical...
Analysis and Optimum Design of Nondeterministic Structures under Random Loads
The importance of analyzing and designing structural systems by using a reliability-based approach is emphasized, including system safety requirements with regard to both serviceability...
Study of Structural Behavior with Computer Simulation
The application of computer simulated testings of structural elements in the civil engineering undergraduate education is described. With a computer simulation a structural component may...
A Perspective on Engineering Computing
Computing in engineering seems to be evolving very rapidly and yet the data shows that it frequently takes twenty years before a viable concept becomes widely available. Economics is the...
Can Your Design Be Built?
A constructibility review takes place in the concept stage, preferably before the project design is completed. The reviewers usually are contractors or project engineers who have a great...
Economic Analysis of Highway Safety Projects
The most commonly used economic analysis for highway safety projects is the cost-benefit ratio. While this is a valid analytical tool, it must be used correctly to produce valid results....
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