Effectiveness of Extended Detention Ponds
Field and laboratory studies of the performance of detention facilities for the removal of selected pollutants from urban stormwater were conducted. The laboratory studies consisted of...
Techniques for Rapid Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability
Under the impetus of a growing awareness of seismic hazards, there is an increasing effort being devoted to assessing the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings. For many professionals...
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,...
Seismic Evaluation of Lifeline Systems?Case Studies
This book contains the papers presented at the technical session titled Seismic Evaluation of Lifeline Systems?Case Studies at the ASCE Fall Convention in Boston, October 27-31, 1986....
Research on Transportation Facilities in Cold Regions
Transportation facilities research in cold regions, reported in this session proceedings, begins with a field study showing that ground surface characteristics have a significant effect...
Experimental Assessment of Performance of Bridges
Among the papers in this book, five assessed the global bridge behavior and the three concentrated on bridge decks. The bridges assessed include prestressed steel plate girder and truss...
Concrete Rehabilitation Options and Solutions
This paper demonstrates the basic steps for a successful rehabilitation program using a case study of the rehabilitation work for the NASA/JPL 64-meter deep space communication antenna....
In Situ State of Underwater Hydraulic Sand Fills
An approach is described for quantifying the in situ state of hydraulically placed sand fills which are a significant element in the construction of artificial exploration islands in the...
Determining Soil Properties by Electric Cone Penetrometer
Gravel island construction is one primary means of establishing permanent locations for oil wells, building foundations and road beds in the arctic. The gravel provides a natural insulation...
Soil Strength Determinations from the Cone Penetrometer Test
Geotechnical exploration in offshore Arctic regions often relies upon the electric Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) because of its speed, economy, data continuity, and general reliability....
Arctic Penetration Test Systems
Geotechnical exploration in offshore arctic regions relies upon the electric Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) because of its speed, economy, data continuity, and general reliability. By adding...
The Rapid Deployment System: A Method for Conducting In Situ Soil Tests from Moving Ice in The Arctic Offshore
A new system was developed which permits rapid helicopter assisted transport of a light-weight in situ geotechnical testing system to remote offshore sites situated on unstable first-year...
Triaxial Compression Testing of Ice
An understanding of the confined compressive strength of ice is needed to develop constitutive equations and failure criteria for analytical ice-structure interaction models. Procedures...
Centrifugal Modeling of Ice Forces on Single Piles
The ice forces and ice floe failure mechanisms associated with an ice sheet surrounding a vertical cylindrical pile were evaluated. A test system was developed to model ice forces in gravity...
Strength and Deformation Behavior of Frozen Saline Sand and Gravel
Construction of offshore oil and gas exploration and production structures often considers the use of either sand or gravel fill materials. Fill soils exposed to the environment will progressively...
Shear Strength in the Zone of Freezing in Saline Soils
The design of artificial islands and other geotechnical structures to support arctic offshore petroleum resource development requires considerable knowledge of the strength of frozen saline...
The Deformation Properties of Warm Underocean Permafrost
Two quasi-conventional incremental pressuremeter tests were carried out on man-made specimens of 'warm' ( minus 3 degree C) frozen, saturated sand. Instead of...
Overview of Soil and Engineering Geologic Conditions in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas
General soil and engineering geologic conditions that are likely to affect exploratory drilling and development activities in six Alaska OCS lease sale areas are discussed. Important conditions...
Undrained Cyclic Behaviour of Beaufort Sea Silt
Cyclic loading behaviour of Beaufort Sea silt has been studied under triaxial conditions, with and without static shear stress, to define the resistance to liquefaction or cyclic straining...
Cyclic Multiaxial Cubical Cell Experiments on a Norton Sound Silt
A servo-controlled multiaxial cubical test apparatus has recently been used to investigate the behavior of the foundation soil for a gravity structure in Norton Sound of the Alaska Outer...
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