Expansion of the Electro-Coal Transfer Terminal
This paper briefly describes renovation and expansion of the coal and phosphate marine terminal in Davant, La. The program included: replacement of existing berths damaged by marine accident;...
Innovative Repairs to Steel Sheet Pile Structures
Several unique and many unusual repair techniques have been used to structurally rebuild steel sheet pile walls. An example of a unique repair to a cellular cofferdam utilizing a suspended...
Louisiana Avenue Wharf E: Rehabilitate the Existing Wharf into a Container Terminal
The Port of New Orleans is currently modernizing the existing facilities in order to handle the containerized cargos, therefore enabling it to compete with other ports located on the Gulf...
National Port Issues
The adequacy of U. S. ports to meet the Nation's present and future needs was evaluated by a Committee of the Marine Board, National Research Council. The changing character...
Local Government Infrastructure Management
The collection of papers presents real world experiences and practical suggestions for improving infrastructure management in local governments. A case study is presented on how a computer-based...
Building Motion in Wind
The trend towards higher structural efficiency and hence lower cost has resulted in a generation of lighter and more flexible buildings with a lower inherent capacity for energy dissipation...
Tallying Water Resources Goals
Federal water resources planning philosophy has undergone a lengthy evolution with a number of refinements in the past decade to encompass environmental laws and the political philosophy...
The Mile High Dream
For the 1986 Tall Buildings Conference in Chicago, a group of experts studied the implications of a mile high skyscraper to be built of concrete. It is 500 ft square at the base, designed...
Highway Quality Level Program
This article describes three versions of BASIC programs for microcomputers, prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, to calculate a statistical measure of highway quality. Using...
Superminis for Super CAD
Many second time users of computer-aided design software and hardware, in their efforts to have more power and flexibility, are switching to superminicomputers and building their own systems....
Plugging into a Dam
Instruments are embedded into hundreds to dams around the world. But for instrumentation to be effective, the instruments must be read, and the data must be plotted and compared to predicted...
From Micro to Supermicro
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments found that simply replacing its microcomputers with supermicros wasn't enough to tackle large files of census tracts and other mapping data....
Pressuremeter Tests and Shoring Wall Design
Pressuremeter testing was used as an integral part in the design of the temporary tieback shoring wall for the Columbia Center office building in Seattle, Washington. Pressuremeter testing...
Ports '86
Ports '86 had the theme of Innovations in Port Engineering and Development with keynote speakers looking ahead to Port Development in the 1990's. The program...
Taming Lively Buildings
Mechanical damping systems are increasingly being used for controlling dynamic responses of tall buildings. Several types of dampers are described, and compared, beginning with the three...
Designing for Maintainability
Inspection and maintenance guidelines are unavailable for many buildings. Building owners seldom have the benefit of such information because buildings are often considered passive systems,...
Combustion Sources of Residential Air Pollution: An Overview
Combustion by-products are a major source of indoor air pollution and have been measured in homes at levels above typical outdoor concentrations, and at levels which approach or exceed...
Development of Data Quality Indicators for Indoor Air Pollution Measurements
Indoor air quality measurements pose a unique problem for the application of traditional Quality Assurance/Quality Control approaches. The lack of reference methods and materials in some...
Effects of Industrial-Municipal Co-Disposal
A study was conducted to evaluate the physical, microbiological, and chemical conditions of nineteen experimental landfills after the completion of a ten-year long municipal refuse/industrial...
National Perspectives and Policy on Nonpoint Sources of Water Pollution
The paper presents the perspective of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the title subject. It makes the point that while EPA continues to implement the major point source efforts...
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