Lawyer on a Microchip
Construction in the 1980s have become a complex, high stakes, intensely competitive business. For architects and engineers involved, the prospect of lawsuits has grown tremendously. An...
Expert Systems for Risk Analysis
An explanation is presented on why construction risk analysis can be handled by an expert system computer program. The author offers a prototype construction risk management expert system...
Building Frame Analysis in Basic
Moment distribution has, for the past 30 years, been the most popular method of analysis for statically indeterminate structures. Programmed in Basic for the microcomputer with relative...
Stepped Spillway Design with a RCC Dam
The hydraulic model study results for the Upper Stillwater stepped spillway design are presented. The studies encompassed several spillway geometries and design unit discharges ranging...
Rehabilitation of Williams Bridge Dam
Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company initiated construction work to upgrade the 90-year old dam in order to meet current dam safety standards with emphasis on satisfying Probable Maximum...
Capacity Expansion of Water Distribution Systems?A Case Study
Capacity expansion and necessary capital improvements to meet the water supply demand for years 1990-2020 for the U. S. Route 1 corridor development from South Brunswick to Princeton,...
Modification of Meander Pattern Using Wing Dams
A sharp river bend and a highway bridge together create potentially hazardous conditions for all down-bound barge tows on the Mississippi River at Lansing, Iowa. The tendency of the river...
Reducing Maintenance Costs of Irrigation Systems
Reducing the costs of maintaining an irrigation water delivery system is becoming more important as the financial problems of the irrigators become more critical. The maintenance costs...
Selenium Removal?Can We Afford It?
The process of biologically removing the element selenium from agricultural drainage water is discussed and an economic evaluation of the process is presented. If by-products can be recovered,...
The Animas-La Plata Project Cost Sharing Agreement
The United States Congress required a cost-sharing agreement between the project beneficiaries and the Federal government. Under this agreement of June 30, 1986, the project will be constructed...
Future Directions on World Bank Irrigation Projects in India
Irrigation development in India is proceeding at a record rate and will continue for several decades. Experience, however, is showing that future directions must entail substantive emphasis...
Economic Benefit of Irrigation on Beef Ranches
Drought can result in forage shortages leading to possible liquidation of the breeding herd. Liquidation is often at depressed prices, and replacement may be at elevated prices. In this...
An Overview of Factors Affecting Land Application of Food Processing Wastes
The food processing industry can use slow rate, rapid infiltration or overland flow systems. Slow rate systems are the most common method used for land application. The limiting design...
Management Challenges Affecting Agricultural Reuse of High-Strength Food Processing Wastewaters
Land treatment of high-strength food processing wastewaters is a viable pollution control technology. Due to the high-strength characteristics of these wastewaters, effective site management...
The Inflatable Weir and Its Widespread Employment for Irrigation in Japan
Although introduced in the U. S. in the 1950's for groundwater recharging, the inflatable weir has become established only in Japan, in which case it is used almost entirely...
Garbage: Cogeneration's Third Dimension
Burning garbage or refuse derived fuels (RDF) is becoming more common in cogeneration plants being constructed in the U.S. The three-for-one concept turns one fuel into two products (steam...
Nuclear Waste Disposal: Where Are We?
The U.S. Department of Energy is conducting preliminary site characterizations for three candidates for nuclear waste disposal. The sites are in three different geologic sites. A Richland,...
The Scourge of Scour
Among 86 bridge failures from 1961 to 1976, more were caused by scour than by earthquakes, wind, structural problems, corrosion and accidents combined. Scour is the erosion of a stream...
Building a Team, Not Just a Building
The best way to resolve construction disputes is to head them off. And the best time to step in is before your contractor is hired. In the private sector, there is no reason to open the...
Steel Plate Girder Alternate I-10/I-17 Interchange
The scope of the Phoenix I-10 Viaduct allowed extensive study for the optimization of this moderate span steel plate girder bridge. The value engineering studies lead to the use of the...
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