Finite-Element Analysis as a Design Tool
This chapter covers the role of finite-element analysis in professional structural design. Past and present usage is covered lightly, with practice in a reputed design office as example....
Lime Sludge Amended Fly Ash for Utilization as an Engineering Material
Sludges generated from various water treatment operations are predominantly subject to the fate of land disposal. To prepare sludges for land disposal typically requires time consuming...
The Transistor Psychrometer: A New Instrument for Measuring Soil Suction
The transistor psychrometer is the latest instrument available for the measurement of soil moisture suction. It has been developed over a number of years and is very similar in operation...
HUD Concerns: Post-Tensioned Foundations in Texas
An investigation was conducted of post-tensioned slab foundation systems in Texas pursuant to a request from the Headquarters Office's of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
The Use of Structural Composites in 21st Century Infrastructure Technology
The purpose of this paper is to create and transmit a sense of the unique benefits which effective application of composites technology can bring to the civil engineering. infrastructure...
Going International: Profit or Peril?
Six veterans of the international engineering and construction market discuss the financial risks of international work, including currency risk; expatriate living conditions; difficulties...
Infrastructure, IFC-Style
Interview with Everett J. Santos, head of the infrastructure department at the International Finance Corp.�the World Bank's private-sector arm. The department, created in...
Bringing Finance to the Table
Advice for companies whose marketing efforts have won them overseas projects�with the condition that they arrange financing for those projects. The competition for the few projects funded...
Can the U.S. Compete?
Though some American firms, particularly those providing turnkey delivery systems, are very competitive abroad, as a rule U.S. engineering and construction firms face daunting obstacles...
Advances in Site Characterization
Data Acquisition, Data Management, and Data Interpretation
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Automated People Movers IV
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Geographic Information Systems and their Application in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
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Report on Ship Channel Design
Waterpower '93
This proceedings contains the papers presented at the Waterpower '93 conference held in Nashville, Tennessee, August 10-13, 1993. The conference brought together owners, planners,...
World Bank Update
Consists of two parts. In the first, Raghavan Srinivasan, the World Bank's chief procurement adviser, talks about issues in international contracts and procurement. He believes...
Vietnam: Worth Looking Into
If it is to enter the world economy, let alone play catch-up with the booming economies of some of its neighbors, Vietnam requires massive numbers of infrastructure projects: roads, bridges,...
Engineering Sustainable Development
Despite some isolated environmental victories in the past few decades, on a system-wide level the problems�from acid rain to destruction of the rain forest�are getting worse. Can humanity...
Guidelines for PC-Based Data Acquisition Systems for Hydraulic Engineering
The Hazard In Using Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis
Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis has been used extensively for major dams; nuclear power plants; liquefied petroleum gas installations; repositories for dangerous wastes; sensitive...
A Dome To Remember
Under intense pressure from all sides, a trio of engineering and architectural firms working in San Antonio, Tex., turned the political coal of a stadium everyone wanted to build (but...
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