Structural Trends in New York City Buildings
This story is based on interviews with some leading structural engineers in New York City. It highlights the major structural trends in building design in that city. Case histories of...
Electronic Computation
Dramatic changes have occurred in computer-aided structural engineering during the past 25 years. Computers have evolved from large, slow processors with little available storage to fast...
Recent Developments in Pavement Skid Resistance
As pavements wear, they lose some of their skid resistance. This article discusses some of the leading options for restoring a pavement's skid resistance. The possibilities...
Superplasticized Concrete Takes Off in Dallas
Some engineers are calling superplasticized concrete the most important advance in concrete technology in over three decades. Over the past four years superplasticized concrete has begun...
The Quiet Revolution in Skyscraper Design
Since the 1960's, there has been a major change in the philosophy for designing high-rise buildings. Up to that time, most buildings were designed to resist wind forces by...
Behavior of Metal Structures
This technical symposium illustrates the various aspects of transfer of information from research results to engineering practice. The papers cover historical technical background, current...
Restoration
After the San Fernando earthquake of 1971, California's State Capitol Building was declared an earthquake hazard and vacated. It took the most extensive structural and architectural...
Bridge
Seven Mile Bridge is the longest, continuous precast post-tensioned segmental concrete bridge in the world. In addition to its function as a main artery connecting the Florida mainland...
West Coast High-Rise Condo Opts for Ductile Concrete Frame
In the past, the vast majority of high-rise buildings constructed in earthquake prone areas of the West Coast have employed a steel frame. However, recent advances have made it feasible...
Innovations Cut Costs of a Power Plant's Water System
A two-unit (660 MW each) coal-fired power plant in St. Clair, MI, requires 660,000 gallons of water for condenser cooling. A once through cooling system from the St. Clair River (one mile...
Throgs Neck Bridge: Why Did Its Deck Deteriorate?
Rapid deterioration of the concrete roadway decks of the Throgs Neck Bridge approach viaducts was found to be due to secondary tensile and fatigue stresses brought on by deflection of...
Word Processing: Office Personnel's Friend or Foe?
The introduction of word processing centers into the workplace brought about the restructuring of office duties and new demands on workers. Word processing received blame for a variety...
Steel Beats Concrete for Idaho Bridge
As an alternative to prestressed concrete design, the State of Idaho and the Federal Highway Administration encouraged the use of cable-stressed steel girder design for the Bonners Ferry...
Georgia's Low-Cost Approach to Rehabilitating Concrete Pavements
A six step approach to rehabilitating concrete pavements is described. The six steps are: (1) Slab stabilization; (2) slab replacement, where necessary; (3) repair of spalls; (4) resawing...
Design of Prefabricated Offshore Structures for Ice Forces
The design of fixed offshore structures to resist forces from sea ice features is reviewed. The emphasis is on prefabricated structures constructed elsewhere, towed to location and installed,...
Record Concrete Box Girder Spans Houston Ship Channel
The Houston Ship Channel Bridge is an American advancement of the cast in place, post-tensioned, segmentally constructed, concrete box girder design. In spite of the complex and unique...
Cold Regions Concreting
The quest for energy and other riches of the earth in the north regions, the establishment of permanent scientific and defense stations in cold regions, the high cost of project and construction...
Flanged Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members
Design aids in the forms of charts and tables are available for design of reinforced concrete flexural members. Many of these design aids were developed for design of rectangular cross...
Cold Regions Construction
A State of the Practice Report
An overview of cold region construction and state of the practice reviews of various aspects of this engineering specialty are presented. The overview covres the development of cold region...
Micro-Computer Program: Roof Purlin Design
A micro-computer program is explained in step-by-step manner as a shortcut for biaxial bending design with results in as little as 60 seconds. Biaxial bending requires the consideration...
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