Learn From Biographies of Early Engineers
The aim of education is to discover, develop and finally, to apply the student's latent abilities. To accomplish these things, the student first needs to try his hand and...
Engineering Education: Can It be More Practical�
U.S. engineering schools were derailed after World War II by some well-meaning educators who decided future engineers should be patterned after physicists and aero-space scientists. Post-war...
ASCE Minority Group Counseling Under Way
ASCE has been touring the nation's secondary schools, telling minority youths about the field of engineering and advising young people on courses of study. In 1970, only about...
In Situ Soils Measuring Devices
Soils engineering is as much art as science�� mostly because techniques for measuring soil parameters leave much in the realm of estimation. Developing instrumentation practices and equipment...
In Situ Soils Measuring Devices�� Part II
Soils engineering is as much art as science�� mostly because techniques for measuring soil parameters leave much in the realm of estimation. Developing instrumentation practices and equipment...
Field Test Sections, Save Cost in Tunnel Support
This report is intended to stimulate improvements in underground works and their adoption by industry. It covers a broad range of topics, including promising concepts for tunnel support,...
Terzaghi Lectures
1963-1972
The lectures included in the books are: Foundation behavior of iron ore storage yards; Role of the calculated risk in earthwork and foundation engineering; Progressive failure in slopes...
Impact of Civil Engineering Projects on People and Nature
Project Summary Report Initial Methodology and Case Study Development
Studies were made by the American Society of Civil Engineers to develop and initiate, through test cases, a methodology for classifying, quantifying, and analyzing the impacts on people...
Economical Construction of Concrete Dams
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference held at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, May 14-18, 1972. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers....
Guide for Design of Steel Transmission Towers
The purpose of this report,
Committee on Backfilling in Public Rights-of-Way Final Report
The report is concerned primarily with evaluating types and properties of soils in the West and North sections of the city and county of St. Louis, field testing and evaluation of the...
American Standard Building Code Requirements for Excavations and Foundations
Pile Foundations and Pile Structures
This manual,
A.S.T.M. Specifications and Methods of Test
This document,
Filtering Materials for Sewage Treatment Plants
Progress Report of the Special Committee on Materials for Road Construction and on Standards for Their Test and Use
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Fatigue Life of Prestressed Concrete Beams
Prepared by the Reinforced Concrete Research Council of ASCE. This report reprints a collection of studies advancing the knowledge of the effects of...
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