Expert System for Operating A Treated Water Supply System
This paper presents a systematic approach to the development of an expert system to operate a treated water supply system for meeting daily water requirements. A treated water supply system...
A TVD MacCormack Method for Open Water Hydraulics and Transport
Computing in Civil Engineering and Geographic Information Systems Symposium
This proceedings consists of the papers presented at the Eighth National Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering and Geographic Information Symposium, held in conjunction with A/E/C...
Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space III
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Reuse Rules
Cities that discharge sewage effluent to surface water are under increasing pressure to reduce concentrations of heavy metals, ammonium and nitrate, and substances such as toxic organic...
Design-Build Goes Public
Public owners of civil works get paid to avoid risk. It's their job. Why try some experimental technique for building offices when safe, proven methods exist? But times have...
Overview of Permeable Bases
Drainable pavement systems consist of: permeable base, separator lyer, and edgegrain system. This paper focuses on permable bases. A permeable base must provide both permeability and stability....
Aerogel?A Transparent, Porous Superinsulator
Silica aerogel is an unusual, transparent, low density, thermally insulating solid useful for a variety of applications. We have been investigating silica aerogel for use in transparent...
Implementation of Material Requirements in Specifications
This paper focuses on where to find information on materials, their compatibility, minimum standards and specifying of materials and their use. The paper also presents case histories on...
Polyolefin Plastic Water Service Line Performance
Polyolefin (PO) plastic piping made from polyethylene (PE) and polybutylene (PB) materials have been used in diameters of about 1 in. for water service lines for buildings. Both PE and...
Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural and Geotechnical Reliability
This proceedings consists of summary papers for the thirty-six technical sessions of the 6th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics, and Structural and Geotechnical Reliability....
The Crown and the Curtain Wall
Crowning the complex curtainwall of an 870 ft concrete tower with a 150 ft high crown of aluminum masts in concentric rings above the 60th floor required ingenuity and extraordinary cooperation...
Taming Environmental Data
The main problem with environmental management is the vast quantity of data generated for and by analysis. A computer system designed to solve this problem moves data from the database...
Dual-System Cleanup
Engineers designing a ground water treatment system for a manufacturing plant in northern California, found that two systems are better�and cheaper�than one. Most of the ground water at...
Seattle Plays It Safe
To ensure the reliability of its aging water system in a major earthquake, the Seattle Water Department commissioned a comprehensive assessment of the system's seismic reliability...
Earthquake Hazard Investigative Procedures for Central United States Waterworks
The vulnerability assessment of Central United States waterworks for earthquake hazards is a developing engineering practice for civil engineers in Arkansas, Missouri and states close...
Seismic Mitigation of the Memphis Water System
Memphis, Tennessee is located in zone 2 of the 1988 Standard Building Code, close to the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The probability of having a seismic event of significant magnitude is...
Risk Based Decision Support Model for Water Delivery Systems Subject to Natural Hazards
This paper presents a prototype model for analysis of potential damage and risk to water company systems in regions subject to earthquakes. Other hazards that produce loss to water distribution...
Impact on Water Supply of a Seismically Damaged Water Delivery System
This paper presents the damage evaluation of a water delivery system caused by the ground shaking in the event of an earthquake by using the LIFELINE-W computer program. The adequacy of...
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