An Expert System for Inactive Hazardous Waste Site Characterization
The area of hazardous waste management is a broad and multidisciplinary field requiring expertise in engineering, geology, chemistry and toxicology, and is an ideal area for the application...
Earthquake Analysis of Liquid Storage Tanks
In the design of modern liquid storage tanks, it is of technical importance to examine their safety against earthquake damage. The methodologies used in design do not account for the major...
Changes in Bridge Deck Flutter Derivatives Caused by Turbulence
This paper discusses some of the results of a wind tunnel study that tested the aeroelastic stability of section models in smooth and gusting flow. Wind gusts several times longer than...
Interaction Effects in Vertically Excited Steel Tanks
Following a brief review of the hydrodynamic effects induced by a vertical component of ground shaking in liquid-filled, circular, cylindrical, steel tanks that are rigidly supported at...
Stochastic Response of Structures with Appendages Containing Fluids
Following a perturbation technique a procedure is developed to compute the modal properties of a system consisting of a fluid containing appendage attached to a multi-degree-of-freedom...
Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors Tidal Circulation Study
Expansion of harbor facilities frequently involves placement of additional landfill and the deepening of channels and mooring areas. A numerical tidal circulation model was used in the...
Treating Sewage in One Tank
A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was the answer to a sewage problem that was holding up community development in Poolesville, MD. Poolesville was one of the first municipalities in the...
Seepage Studies Using Tracers and the Self Potential Test
Mill Creek Dam, a homogeneous silt structure resting on a conglomerate foundation, has experienced severe 'seepage since its construction in 1941. In 1981, a concrete cutoff...
In-Place Permeability Measurement of Slurry Trench Cutoff Walls
A suggested procedure for the in-place measurement of slurry trench cutoff wall permeability is presented. The H. Bouwer and Rice method, employing a single observation well and variable-head...
Slow Rate Sand Filtration Using a Zeolite Surface Amendment
The objective of the study was to obtain detailed information regarding amended filter performance at surface loading rates 2 to 4 times higher than standard flow rates. Experiments were...
Low Head Filtration Removal Efficiencies of
The removal of Giardia cysts from low turbidity waters is of great concern in many areas of the United States. A pilot program was undertaken to determine if an established low head filtration...
Models of Organics Transport Through Soil Columns
A mathematical model is proposed for the transfer of organic solutes in soil. Two cases are considered namely transport of non-adsorptive solutes and transport of adsorptive solutes. Comparative-study...
Modeling the Movement of Volatile Organic Chemicals with Unsaturated Flow
Over the past decade, the rate of groundwater contamination by volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) has increased. Therefore, for both groundwater protection and cleanup, it is necessary...
Modeling Dispersion in Non-Homogenous Formations
A stochastic model of contaminant mixing in non-homogeneous porous media has been developed. The model is three dimensional and relates the contaminant distribution to the probability...
Data from Most Monitoring Wells in Limestone Terranes Are Irrelevant to Pollutant Detection but Reliable Monitoring Can Be Attained: Why and How
The conventional system of using three or more monitoring wells placed down-gradient from a site and one or more background wells placed up-gradient from it is extremely unlikely to detect...
Viscoplastic Fluid Model for Debris Flow Routing
This paper describes how a generalized viscoplastic fluid model, which was developed based on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, can be successfully applied to routing a debris flow down a...
Engineering Methodology for Delineating Debris Flow Hazards in Los Angeles County
Utilizing historical and field data, elementary geomorphology and simplified hydraulics of debris flows, a mapping strategy has been developed. The delineation procedure includes defining...
Seawater Intrusion in Salinas Valley, California
The rate of intrusion has been estimated to be about 19,000 acre-feet per year. If no action is taken to halt the intrusion, it is projected that in the year 2000 there will be as much...
Flood Risk Below Steep Mountain Slopes
Alluvial fans spread at approximately the critical hydraulic slope below apexes at canyon mouths. Periodic torrents that rage out of the canyons are devastating at the apex and have diminishing...
Debris Flows and Hyperconcentrated Streamflows
Examination of recent debris-flow and hyperconcentrated-streamflow events in the western United States reveals (1) the topographic, geologic, hydrologic, and vegetative conditions that...
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