The Strategic Exploration Initiative - Lunar Basing
The Strategic Exploration Initiative (SEI), as conceived by the author in 1987, applies the weaponry of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to non-military goals. These include directed...
Plasma Reactor Waste Management Systems
The University of North Dakota is developing a plasma reactor system for use in closed-loop processing which includes biological, materials, manufacturing, and waste processing. Direct-current,...
Nature's Solutions to Space Insulation
Humans working or living in the harsh environment in space must be protected from temperature extremes. Any effective insulating system must be able to withstand a wide range of temperatures....
Oxygen Production for a Future Lunar Base
This paper discusses various ways for providing oxygen for a lunar base. Currently, there are three methods available which are technologically possible. One of these is the use of chemical...
Sulfur-Based Construction Materials for Lunar Construction
Several approaches have been suggested to use lunar or Martian aggregate in extraterrestrial construction. These approaches include hot pressing of lunar soils producing cements and concretes...
Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete
Composite steel-concrete systems are used extensively for buildings, bridges, and other civil engineering structures. Research and development related to composite construction are in...
Pipeline Infrastructure
These proceedings include papers which cover the topics of innovative pipeline design, condition monitoring, soil-pipe interaction, inspection, maintenance, and rehabilitation. These collective...
Waste Processing: Makes Good Energy
Materials separation in solid wastes streams will generate more BTU's at waste-to-energy facilities. The removal of noncombustibles like bottles, batteries and refrigerators...
Hydraulic Fill Structures
This volume contains 53 papers covering many aspects of hydraulic fill structures with special emphasis on geotechnical issues. The papers present an excellent review of historical development,...
New Found Youth for an Old Foundry
The Grey Iron plant, central foundry division of General Motors Corp., in Saginaw, Mich. conducted a study to evaluate the capacity and tooling of future casting operations of the more...
Epoxy Update
Epoxy-coated reinforcing steel protects against corrosion if it is used correctly. Several construction practices, such as prescribing the limits on permissible coating damage due to shipping...
Leakproofing an RCC dam
A roller compacted concrete dam, Stacy Dam in Texas, is described and several methods of preventing leakage are mentioned. Reinforced concrete facings, placed after RCC completion, was...
For Want of a Bolt...
While counterfeit bolt-nut imports make sensational headlines, civil engineers should be more concerned with actual construction problems that have arisen in the past decade. Experts say...
Brighter Future for Stay Cables
Corrosion problems on cable stayed bridges can be prevented, according to several engineers who responsed to Cables in Trouble, a Civil Engineering article that appeared in the April 1988...
Structure as Architecture
The newest structure at Tampa International Airport in Florida is Airside F, part of an expansion of the first airport designed so that passengers are shuttled via monorail between a main...
Pipe Jacking Advances
Pipe jacking is the remote placement of pipes underground by means of a tunneling machine that carries a train of pipe behind it. This is a relatively new technology in the United States,...
New Horizons in Construction Materials
While civil engineers have, for centuries, built structures and other physical facilities using whatever materials are available to them, there is always the need for stronger, more durable,...
Portland Cement Concrete Pavement in the 21st Century
The future of Portland Cement Concrete Paving in the 21st Century holds vast challenges that we as industry must be ready to tackle head on. Looking ahead, we see an even more vital role...
Asphalt Pavements of the Future
There will be major changes in the Hot Mix Asphalt Industry throughout the next decade and into the 21st century. Acquisitions, diversification, SHRP, the emergence of new technologies...
New Concrete and Asphalt Mixes on the Horizon
Significant research is currently 'in progress' which is intended to develop modified or new design methodologies that will result in improved pavement performance....
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