Tracking the Temblor
The earthquake that occurred in Izmit, Turkey, in August 1999�along a fault line that is similar to the San Andreas Fault in Southern California�has provided useful data to researchers...
The New Commute
Owners of small engineering firms differ in their opinions about the efficacy of allowing employees to work from home one or more days per week. Some find it difficult to justify the technology...
Seattle Solutions
Many of Seattle's most important bridges are vulnerable to serious damage if a much-anticipated big earthquake hits. A city-wide study designated lifeline structures for retrofitting,...
Sealing the Subway
Although work on the Los Angeles Metro subway is stopped for now, the project has introduced a number of innovations and advances to the American tunneling community, including the use...
Learning from Disaster
After each earthquake, civil engineers learn more about what can be done to minimize the damage to infrastructure from seismic events. The recent large earthquakes that struck Izmit, Turkey,...
Will It Happen Here?
Every large earthquake reveals another facet of nature's riddles. Because earthquake engineering is experience-driven, the only time we can truly study the engineering effects...
Advancing Composites (Available in Structural Engineering Special Section only)
Advanced composites, particularly fiber-reinforced polymers, have received considerable attention from bridge owners over the last few years, as cost-effective, durable alternatives to...
Considering the Options (Available in Structural Engineering Special Section only)
In work for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), Sverdrup Civil, Inc. performed a seismic evaluation and developed a seismic retrofit strategy for the Poplar Street Bridge...
Summary of Evaluation Findings for the Testing of Ice Ban
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF Service Center. This report describes a HITEC laboratory and field evaluation...
Topographic Surveying
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 29 This manual includes the new electronic surveying...
Preparing Specifications for Design-Bid Build Projects
The Committee on Specifications of the Construction Division of ASCE has developed a guide to preparing construction specifications for design-bid build projects. The guide contains preparation...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1998
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers Vol. 163, 1998 contains abstracts for all ASCE journal and periodical papers and technical notes, Civil Engineering - ASCE feature...
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1998
The 1998 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1998. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Calendar: Bridges 2000 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge (OH); Coos Bay (McCullough Memorial) Bridge (OR); Gothic Arch (NY); Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge (CA); Plaza de Espana (Spain);...
Mental Models and Maps
Each of us has a unique mental model or map of how the particular parts of the world behave or ought to behave. These particular parts might include: the realm of business, the realm of...
Stages of Human Development
This chapter discusses stages of professional development....
Your Life Goal, Aim or Purpose
This chapter explores what the reader's life goal, aim, or purpose might be....
Interests, Styles, Values and IQ
This chapter explores the development of interests, styles, values, and IQ in the process of individuation....
Core Competencies for Living
This chapter explores core competencies or basic skills for living and working in a complex world....
Learning How to Learn
This chapter explores how, when, and why we pursue learning against the backdrop of global economic competition with the need for everything to be better, faster and cheaper....
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