Retrofitting Fossil Plant Facilities Structural Perspectives
This publication, Retrofitting Fossil Plant Facilities: Structural Perspectives, was prepared by the Retrofit Task Committee of the Fossil Power Committee of the American Society of Civil...
Geotechnology: An Environment of Change
Today's contaminated materials�soil and water�have been investigated and analyzed by geotechnical engineers for a long time. No other branch of engineering is better positioned,...
Airport Construction: The Japanese Way
Japan is spending tens of billions of dollars on airport projects domestically and abroad through their aid programs. Examples of construction at the New Osaka Airport (Kansai), Narita/Tokyo,...
Knowledge Acquisition in Civil Engineering
Expert systems are an intriguing approach for transferring valuable problem-solving skills from the minds of human experts to the logic of computer programs. For the past several years,...
Selling to Civil Engineers
A Multiple Market Opportunity
It covers the engineered construction market, the rehab market, and the environmental market....
Stochastic Evaluation of Landing Pier Construction
This paper discusses the process of determining the magnitude of external force such as wind and wave pressure exerted on marine structures under construction, and the learning curve of...
Automated Damage-Controlled Design of RC Buildings
This paper presents an automated damage-controlled design method, which aims for uniform damage distribution throughout the entire building frame while respecting the strong-column weak-beam...
Iterative Subsystem Analysis for Seismic Monte Carlo Studies
Three iterative subsystem analysis techniques for Monte Carlo simulation of response time histories are examined. The three subsystems are designated primary, secondary, and interface,...
On Aseismic Hybrid Control System
One type of hybrid control system is proposed for protecting tall buildings subjected to strong earthquakes. The hybrid system consists of a base isolation system connected to either a...
Graphical Demonstration of Serviceability Analysis
A graphical interactive computer program (GISALLE) has been developed using state of the art computer graphics to estimate the seismic performance of water supply systems. GISALLE is developed...
Lifeline Systems Reliability, Serviceability and Reconstruction
In this paper we present a brief outline of methods and results for characterizing the reliability and serviceability of oil pipeline systems. Further, we present an outline of methods...
Assessment of Component Safety Due to Common Cause Events
This paper demonstrates the use of Modified Fault Tree Analysis (MFTA) and Modus Tollens Deduction (MTD) techniques for assessing the safety of redundant components due to common cause...
Safety Assessment Methodology for Construction Operations
There are many factors that affect the safety of construction operations which might lead to failures and accidents. The factors are associated with random, human-based or system uncertainty....
Failure Prediction for Non-Linear Structural Systems
A method is described that makes failure predictions for structures which are complex, nonlinear and expensive to evaluate on a computer. The method makes use of a non-linear response...
Efficient Structural System Reliability Assessment by Monte-Carlo Methods
Monte Carlo methods can be used to good advantage since the required probability of failure is formulated as a multi-dimensional integral of the probability density function of the basic...
An Extension of Iterative Fast Monte-Carlo (IFM) Procedure and its Applications to Time-Variant Structural Reliability Analysis
An efficient sampling procedure which is applicable to time-variant as well as time-invariant structural reliability problems is proposed. First, the concept of the conditional failure...
Structural Error Identification for Control of Construction Accuracy
In cases of large-scaled structures it is very important to keep the criteria of construction accuracy and therefore to correct construction errors if any considerable errors are found...
Application of Probabilistic Methods in Construction Industry
Recent attempts for theoretical development and engineering application of probabilistic methods, which have been carried out in a Japanese engineering and construction company, are summarized....
Spectral Distribution Free Bounds on the Response Variability of Stochastic Systems
A methodology to analytically and numerically evaluate the spectral distribution-free upper bounds of the response variability of stochastic systems is developed. The structural systems...
Stochastic Strain-Displacement Matrices for Finite Elements with Random Constitution
A prescribed correlated random field for elastic moduli furnishes an associated population of stochastic shape functions at the element level. The principle of deterministic tractions,...
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