Lightweight Fill Helps Albany Port Expand
Lightweight aggregate was used as a soil fill in the reclamation of a marine terminal at the Port of Albany, New York in order to stabilize the dockside area. Gravel-filled steel sheet...
A New Panama Canal?
The Panama Canal is expected to be obsolete by the end of the century. Already there are serious problems with ship traffic through the Canal: volume of traffic is down, average transit...
U.S. Bridges: The Bias Towards Mediocrity
This article contends that in this century the United States has lost its leadership in bridge design and explores reasons why this came to be. Comparative examples of various bridge types...
The Three Point Resection: An Alternate Method
When doing stadia or topographic surveying, it is not always economical or practical to establish the location of the transit or plane table via a field traverse. If three points of known...
Land Treatment of Hazardous Waste
Land treatment is one of several available alternatives to the use of landfills and surface impoundments for the treatment and disposal of hazardous waste. Using this technique, hazardous...
New Wastewater Process Cuts Plant Costs 60%
By combining the aerator and the clarifier into one basin, this new wastewater treatment process can slash capital costs up to 60% and operating and maintenance costs up to 45%. Raw sewage...
Brooklyn Bridge
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of opening of New York City's Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, the Smithsonian Institute has mounted, and opened to the public in the anniversary...
Boston Tunes Up Water System
In 1977, Boston's water supply system had so many leaks and so many unmetered or undermetered customers that only about half the water entering the system was accounted for....
A Rapid Method of Computing Geometric Relations in Structural Analysis
A rapid method of computing geometric relations in structural analysis is presented. The method is shorter than usual methods, in many cases, and can often produce a result in one step....
The Quiet Revolution in Skyscraper Design
Since the 1960's, there has been a major change in the philosophy for designing high-rise buildings. Up to that time, most buildings were designed to resist wind forces by...
Ditch Flow Program
Seventeenth in the CE Computing BASICS series, the program in this article is for simplifying drainage calculations. The program will provide critical and normal velocities, depths and...
Seismic Design of Embankments and Caverns
The papers included in this publication were presented at three symposia on seismicity and seismic design for embankment dams and underground openings. Primary topics for discussion include:...
Design for Ice Forces
Part one of this publication on design for ice forces emphasizes offshore and coastal structures. In this section , seasonal ice conditions typical of offshore and coastal zones are reviewed....
Personnel
Recruiting, Motivating, Rewarding
Aspects of personnel management are discusased in relation to the engineering profession. The first section of these proceedings includes a report on orientation of the new employee and...
Managing Urban Transportation with Limited Resources
The objectives of this symposium are to acquaint the profession with innovative practices for managing transportation resources during a time of fiscal constraint. The ideas and approaches...
Geotechnical Practice in Offshore Engineering
The offshore industry as it exists today is just 30 years old. In that period the depth of water where structures are built has increased from a few feet to over 1000 feet. The performance...
Coastal Zone '83
Interdisciplinary information and viewpoints on coastal zone management and ocean resources issues related to use, protection, and development are presented. Topics include improved jurisdiction...
Seismic Response of Buried Pipes and Structural Components
At nuclear power plants there are numerous underground safety-related pipes and structural components which are utilized in the operation of the plant. These underground components provide...
Introductory Manual on Computer Services
The role of computers in civil engineering is discussed including an overview of computer use, and comparisons of expectations, advantages, and shortcomings of computer use. Future technical...
Behavior of Metal Structures
This technical symposium illustrates the various aspects of transfer of information from research results to engineering practice. The papers cover historical technical background, current...
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