Current Research and Research Needs in Deep Foundations
This report summarizes the current range of research on deep foundations now being performed in the United States. The report is divided into two main sections: (1) Current research or...
Putting CADD to Work
Case histories show that engineering with CADD is no longer experimental. Projects reviewed in this article include an office/shop building for an electrical utility, a flood plain site...
Engineering with Spreadsheets
With an electronic spreadsheet, the geotechnical engineer has a powerful tool for solving routine engineering problems. The ability of the electronic spreadsheet to use the calculus of...
Project Management on a Micro
Increasingly, project management programs that once required the power of a mainframe computer are being modified to work on micros. Some of the programs being used at a number of firms...
Portables Pay Off
A portable microcomputer with appropriate software, utilities and copies of job related records can establish a field office for almost any project. Examples of applications for the onsite...
Rating Pavements by Computer
Pavement rating is a necessary and labor-intensive job and one with a high turnover rate of personnel. Also, rating scores are often inconsistent from day to day, or between different...
Accounting for CADD Center Costs
The purpose of developing a CADD cost center is to segregate all costs related to the CADD operation so that you may receive fair compensation for CADD usage and to ensure fair charges...
Data Base in Your City's Future?
The city of Bellevue, Wash. computerized its public works maps in 1979 because Bellevue was using the county's maps, and their updating wasn't keeping up with suburban growth. Now this...
Slashing Tunnel Costs
The second U.S. application of the New Austrian Tunneling Method at Washington D.C.'s Metro system is described. The innovative method has been used overseas, but American...
Tunneling a Bridge
Linking an addition to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta required a pedestrian tunnel through a railroad embankment 100 ft wide and 40 ft high, with no disruption of train service...
Advances in Short Span Steel Bridges
Applying recent research to the design of short span steel bridges can lower their cost and maintenance. Such research involves improved limit state criteria, more uniform lateral load...
Second-Guessing the Engineer
The relationships between utilities and the bodies that regulate them have changed drastically in the past few years. No longer can any costs associated with the construction of new power...
Rail Planning�Texas Style
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Authority has a 25 year plan to build a 147 mile rail network�all without federal funds. When DART hits its 2010 target date for completing the rail...
Negotiating Contracts
Good contract negotiations require an understanding of psychology and the dynamics of group interactions. Communication skills necessary to resolving key issues include identifying non-verbal...
Accounting for Every Pipe
The Norfolk Sanitary Sewer Inventory and Appraisal System contains individual records for each of the 20,000 pipe segments in the Norfolk sewer system. The data, assembled from construction...
Predicting Sinkhole Collapse
Sinkholes erupt when a cavern or opening in the limestone rock below opens up to the surface. Florida's sinkholes have received most U.S. attention recently, but sinkhole geology is found...
What Do Pavements Cost?
Life-cycle costing is a rational tool used to forestall problems with highway infrastructure. Currently this tool is still an imprecise one. The Federal Highway Administration has a system...
Jointless Bridge Decks
Deck joints in a bridge are the source of many problems over its lifetime. In time, chances are good the joint will leak, permitting water and salt to leak through. Often this leads to...
Greater Compatibility in Highway Safety
There is a pressing need to improve communication, cooperation, and coordination among the disciplines involved in highway safety. The challenge is to improve, if not perfect, the exchange...
EMS & Highway Safety: Together We Can Save a Life
The various elements of the highway safety program share several common goals and objectives. Timely achievement of these goals will require a cooperative and, at times, interdependent...
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