Tough Pollution Laws Spur Use of Impermeable Liners
Consultants have increasingly been using flexible, synthetic linings for a variety of civil engineering applications. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has been using membranes to line irrigation...

Keowee-Toxaway Power Project�� OUTSTANDING
The Keowee-Toxaway Power Project located in North and South Carolina received the 1975 OCEA Award. The many facets of this project appear overwhelming, yet this contributes to the remarkable...

Tunnel under Alps Uses New, Cost-Saving Lining Method
Contractors of the Tauerntunnel through the Alps, near Salzburg, Austria, encountered very bad geology�� heavily distorted, preloaded rock under an overburden up to 3,300 ft (1,000-m)...

Dialog Between Engineers: Designers, Contractors, Manufacturers
A case history showing the untypical situation where engineers from all segments of the construction industry worked together to design and build a power plant. Site conditions were such...

Design and Construction of Steel Chimney Liners
This is believed to be the first book to be compiled and published on this subject, even though the steel liner is now the most widely used in fossil-fueled electric generating stations...

Earthquake Wave Transmission Through Saturated Soil
(Volume 1)...

Converting Existing Hydro-Electric Dams and Reservoirs into Pumped Storage Facilities
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference on Converting Existing Hydro-Electric Dams and Reservoirs into Pumped Storage Facilities, held at Franklin Pierce College, Rindge,...

Public Works and Society
Proceedings of Public Works and Society, the 1972 Joint Conference held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 14-18, 1972. Sponsored by The American Society of Civil Engineers and the...

Guide for Design of Steel Transmission Towers
The purpose of this report, Guide for Design of Steel Transmission Towers, is to provide a basis for the structural design of self-supporting...

Electric Power
Today and Tomorrow
Proceedings of the Power Division Specialty Conference held in Denver, Colorado, August 18-20, 1965. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Power Division...

International Engineering Congress 1904
Topics covered: purification of water for the production of steam; mining engineering; harbors; engineering education; the light-house and other aid to navigation; the manufacturing of...

 

 

 

 

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