Teaching Structural Engineering in Year 2000
The paper addresses the need for changes in engineering education in order to keep pace with the changes that have and will continue to take place in the workplace. Over the past 40 years...
Risk Assessment: A Tool for Dam Rehabilitation Decisions
A phased approach to the dam rehabilitation decision problem is presented. The approach is based on viewing the newer dam safety evaluation approaches of incremental damage assessment...
Risk-Based Methodology for Seismic Rehabilitation of Earth Dams
A methodology for seismic risk analysis of earth dams is described. The procedure utilizes seismological and geotechnical inputs together with the associated uncertainties and provides...
Roller Compacted Concrete for Embankment Overtopping Protection
In the first National Dam Safety Inventory and inspection performed by the Corps of Engineers, the majority of deficiencies found were related to the inability of the project to retain...
Saylorville Spillway: Emergency to Service Spillway
The spillway for Saylorville Lake located on the Des Moines River, 12 miles north of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, a large metropolitan, was designed as an emergency spillway. Due to subsequent...
Software Applications for Monitoring Instrumentation Data
The initial program for reducing instrumentation data, used by the Geotechnical Branch of the Louisville District Corps of Engineers, was written in 1969. This program did not allow for...
Liquefaction Potential Leads to Dam Reconstruction
Results of a visual inspection of the Dundee Dam conducted in 1982 revealed the presence of seepage on the downstream toe of the left embankment. Subsequent subsurface explorations and...
Stability of Embankments, Fills and Structures at the Bad Creek Project Under Static and Dynamic Loading
Duke Power was faced with the problem of using explosives to assist in removing a sensitive, saturated embankment cofferdam supported on a large rock plug. The first phase of the work...
Trial Lake Dam Reconstruction
Trial Lake Dam is located in the Uinta National Forest in Central Utah at an elevation of about 10,000 feet. The dam is 50 feet high and stores 1,700 acre-feet of water for downstream...
Use of Shotcrete on Recent Tunnel Projects in the South and East, USA
Shotcrete and rockbolts are now the primary method of ground support for the majority of rock tunnels in America. This paper describes the use of shotcrete and some of the shotcreting...
Geometric Design Projects for Highways
An Introduction
This book provides an introduction to geometric design of highways by means of examaples and projects that emphasize basic specifications, approaches to preliminary route selection, alignment,...
Recycled Roads
The movement to recycle wastes in highways appears to be gathering momentum nationwide. Rubber from old tires, wood chips, reclaimed asphalt pavement, fly ash, scrap plastic, mining wastes...
MASSPORT Modernization
Construction began last fall on the Massachusetts Port Authority (MASSPORT) upgrade of the 50-year-old Paul W. Conley Terminal in Boston. When completed in 1994, this timber-pile-supported...
Driving Under a Construction Site
Throughout the summer of 1992, vehicles passed unimpeded through one of the most heavily traveled intersections in Los Angeles County as construction proceeded on a concrete light-rail...
Motivating Technical Employees
The traditional methods of motivating employees�offers of higher pay and better perks�often fail to inspire technical employees, leaving their managers scratching their heads. But a review...
The Development of the CRWMS Transportation System
The Transportation System of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS) is being developed using a system engineering approach to ensure it is properly integrated into the...
Development of the Planning and Control Segment, CRWMS Transportation System
This paper discusses the current plans for the development of the Planning and Control segment of the SRWMS Transportation System. Each of the four Planning and Control subsystems are...
Development of the Service & Maintenance Segment of the Transportation System
This paper discusses the progress to date in establishing the Service and Maintenance Segment of the Transportation System required to maintain the equipment required to transport spent...
Development of the Field Operations and Carrier Segments, CRWMS Transportation System
This paper discusses the current status and plans for the development of the Field Operations and Carriage segments of the Transportation System of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management...
Site and Facility Waste Transportation Planning Documents (SPDs): Status and Findings
Site and Facility Waste Transportation Services Planning Documents (SPDs) are detailed desk-top reference documents that initiate planning for shipping commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF)...
Return to search