Building a Pipeline?Not a Flow Through Process
This paper will illustrate that the planning, design, and construction of a 32-mile water supply pipeline from Stockton Lake to Springfield involves more than just digging a trench, placing...

Environmental Management Issues in Developing Countries of Southeast Asia
Acknowledging the escalating concerns regarding the environmental impact of water resource projects, a serious effort must be made to identify and review environmental issues which directly...

The Total System Solution
Most pipeline reconstruction programs carried out to date have been crisis driven or reactive instead of system wide approaches to problem solving. Two tools have been devised to change...

Managing Existing Reservoirs to Meet New Challenges
The current planning and management environment for many reservoirs differs significantly from the situation which existed when the projects were initially planned and constructed. Yet,...

Planning, Assessing and Implementing Pipeline Rehabilitation Options
The methods of investigation for determining pipeline rehabilitation options for design and construction are directed chiefly toward: a) cost minimization of necessary rehabilitation projects;...

Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
This manual, Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, emphasizes contemporary design practices for municipal wastewater treatment plants...

Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space III
This proceedings, Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space III, consists of over 200 papers presented at Space '92, the...

Engineering Mechanics
This proceedings, Engineering Mechanics?Ninth Conference, consists of the texts of the three keynote lectures and brief summaries of submitted...

International Air Transportation
A New International Airport
This proceedings, International Air Transport?A New International Airport, consists of papers presented at the 22nd International Air Transportation...

Steering Clear of Tort Claims
Tort liability has become a major issue for today's highway engineer. Claims against state highway departments charging that deficient roadways caused or contributed to traffic...

OCEA, American-Style
A truly All-American contingent, the nominees for this year's Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award span the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii. The scope of the...

Building Better Bridges: Concrete Vs. Steel
The authors debate the merits of concrete segmental and steel bridge design and construction based on five criteria: initial and life-cycle costs; structural advantages; durability; construction...

Investigation of a Concrete Blistering Failure
During construction of a concrete pavement at a military airfield, numerous small blisters formed on the concrete surface behind the slipform paver and were filled by the contractor using...

Standard Methodologies for the Forensic Investigation of Pavements
The high costs of new construction have made the preservation and restoration of existing pavements an attractive alternative to replacement structures. Existing pavements that are to...

Forensic Analysis of a Two-Component Joint Sealant Using FTIR-ATR
Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy using Attenuated Total Internal Reflectance (FTIR-ATR) was used to chemically identify joint sealants obtained from an airfield pavement joint which...

The Diagnosis of Pavement Ills
The paper defines the 'health' of a road pavement in terms of parameters of serviceability, safety and structural integrity and defines 'illness' as any departure from 'healthy' values...

The Role of Nondestructive Testing in Assessing the Infrastructure Crisis
At present the role of nondestructive testing in the evaluation of infrastructure deterioration is an extremely limited one. In the Author's experience this is, in part, due to a reluctance...

Use of the Break-Off Method for the Evaluation of High Performance Concrete
The Break-Off test is one of the recent developments for testing in-place concrete strength. This research was undertaken to investigate the reliability of the Break-Off test as a measure...

Principles of Infrared Thermography and Application for Assessment of the Deterioration of the Bridge Deck at the Zoo Interchange
This paper details the principles of infrared thermography from the underlying theoretical considerations to the physical constraints involved with performing the test. Infrared (IR) thermography...

Masonry as a Structural Material
Four case studies are presented which illustrate the use of masonry as a structural material. Results of laboratory studies for unreinforced piers subjected to in-plane lateral forces,...

 

 

 

 

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