Do Coated Pipes Last Longer?
Field studies have revealed that polymer coated steel pipe resists corrosion longer than pipe coated with other materials. Corrosion is the most common failure mechanism of pipe culvert,...
Rebuilding History
Deterioration of the second-oldest multiple-arch masonry viaduct in the country�in Canton, Mass.�threatened its ability to continue carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains,...
Building Between Buildings (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue Only)
Construction of tall buildings in the centers of the world's large cities almost invariably involves working within severe site constraints. The constraints can involve all...
Alaska's Last Link
Alaska's Seward Highway has been upgraded this past year. The last section of the highway dates back to the state's early mining days in the Kenai Peninsula,...
Baseball Caps
The last ten years have been a renaissance for baseball stadium construction�a trend that doesn't look likely to stop just yet�and four of the new parks are on the cutting...
A Race to Innovate
The annual Concrete Canoe Competition, which is co-sponsored by the ASCE and Cleveland-based Master Builders, fosters several engineering breakthroughs that are ignored or forgotten by...
Timber!
For engineers accustomed to working with steel, using large wood beams in structural applications can be an unusual experience. Three Midwestern construction projects�a nature center,...
Advances in Structural Optimization
A compilation of twenty papers,
A Signature Bridge for Boston (Available only in Structural Engineering Special Issue)
The first hybrid steel and concrete span in America will debut over the Charles River in Boston, carrying ten lanes of interstate traffic and serving as an elegant capstone to the largest...
Braced for Failure (Available only in Structural Engineering Special Issue)
Investigations into the collapse of steel-framed structures often focus on minor, insignificant design flaws, only to ignore the real culprit: inadequate temporary bracing. The collapse...
Taking in the River
As dams across the country age, so do their intake gates, and testing them requires dewatering. To meet the challenge of dewatering these structures without upsetting sensitive aquatic...
Fathoming the Strength of Structures
More and more, the owners of bridges and piers are budgeting rehabilitations based on inspections done underneath the waterline. Increasingly, they want the underwater inspectors to be...
Putting the Wraps on Quakes
With bridges deteriorating all over the country at an alarming rate, state DOTs are searching for cost-effective retrofit solutions that will protect our aging bridge inventory from seismic...
Design of Blast Resistant Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities
This report provides general guidelines in the structural design of blast resistant petrochemical facilities. Informational coverage is provided for OSHA requirements, design objectives,...
Design of Hydraulic Steel Structures
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 22 This manual prescribes guidance for designing hydraulic...
Grouting
Compaction, Remediation and Testing
This proceedings,
Unsaturated Soil Engineering Practice
This collection of papers presented at the sessions on Unsaturated Soil Engineering Practice held during the First National Conference of the ASCE Geo-Institute at the Utah State University...
Structural Design of Closure Structures for Local Flood Protection Projects
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 21 This guide provides a framework for the structural...
Old Aswan Dam
Egypt's Aswan Dam is almost 100 years old, and engineers performed tests of the masonry, conducting petrographic and chemical analyses. The High and Aswan Dam Authority of...
Forensic Engineering
This proceedings contains the papers resented at the First Forensic Engineering Congress, a special part of the American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Convention held in Minneapolis,...
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