Microcomputers and Design Codes: A Case Study
A microcomputer analysis of the thermal stress problem in reinforced concrete box sections was conducted. An explicit finite difference algorithm for a one-dimensional heat flow analysis...
Interactive Microcomputer Analysis and Design of Light Gage Steel Roof Systems
A hinderance to the widespread acceptance of the cold-formed steel roof Z-purlin in conventionally engineered buildings is due to the lack of a useful and efficient analysis and design...
Interactive Bridge Optimization Program
This paper presents the development of a design methodology that includes the structural optimization process as an integrated component of girder bridge design. The optimization process...
Intrinsic Models for Interactive Structural Design
This paper introduces a 'generic' model for interactive design of constructed facilities. The proposed methodology takes real world conditions, in terms of load...
New Generation Capacity
Currently, electric utilities in the U. S. have excess generation capacity. In addition, some new generation capacity is well under construction and is scheduled to come on-line soon,...
Estimation of Urban Storm-Runoff Loads
The United States was divided into three regions, on the basis of mean annual rainfall, to decrease the variability in storm-runoff constituent loads and to improve regression relations...
Advances in Analysis of Structural Masonry
The papers in this book were presented at the technical session, Advances in Analysis of Structural Masonry, at the ASCE Structures Congress '86 held in New Orleans, LA, on...
Evaluation and Upgrading of Wood Structures
Case Studies
The need to evaluate and upgrade existing wood structures stems from concerns of safety and serviceability. These concerns are caused for a variety of reasons which include plans for continued...
Stability Under Seismic Loading
This publication includes five papers that cover the p- ? effect on seismic structures with semi-rigid connections, the effect of panel zone deformations on the structural response behavior,...
Truck Weight Enforcement on a WIM
Pavements on interstate highways and other major truck routes are deteriorating faster than predicted. The cause is largely the larger-than-predicted number of the heaviest, 5-axle trucks....
Building on Water
During the last century, innovations in concrete have paved the way for the evolution of marine concrete structures. Oakland's proposed Carnation Container Terminal is using...
The Concrete Diagonal
Onterie Center in Chicago, Fazlur Kahn's last major structural design, is a companion in concrete to the diagonally braced steel John Hancock Center. It is a mixed-use building...
Designing for Shock Resistance
If a product or structure is subject to shock loadings, and is unable to take them without unacceptable damage, it must be insulated from the shock. The decision may be to redesign the...
Complexity in Concrete
Centrust Tower in Miami, Fla., is a $95 million, 37 story, 600,000 sq ft tower rising from one side of a block-square 11 story parking garage. Columns on the curved side of the triangular...
Isolating Earthquakes
The Foothills Communities Law and Justice Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., is the first U.S. building to rest on base isolators for protection against a possible earthquake of 8.3 Richter....
Spreadsheets: A New Design Tool
New techniques are developing which make computer programming easier. One new technique is spreadsheet programming for microcomputers. Two programs are presented which give a quick overall...
Wharf Stands on Stone Columns
A wharf was constructed in New Orleans on very weak soils. To prevent lateral and vertical movement of the soil, normally the entire wharf and adjacent structure would be founded on steel...
Design of Strontia Springs Arch Dam
The development of the layout and the history of design of the 292 foot (89 m) high Strontia Springs Dam is presented. While a brief description of the general project layout and foundation...
The OCEANWHEEL Artificial Island
The compression rim and tension spoke structural system (OCEANWHEEL) transfers lateral loads from sea surface to seafloor efficiently. It promises a wide variety of uses beyond the described...
The Estimation of Ice Loads From Caisson Deformations Gulf Canada Molikpaq
The Gulf Canada Resources Mobile Arctic Caisson 'Molikpaq' is a bottom founded steel exploration platform capable of year-round operation in the Beaufort Sea....
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