Civil Engineers and Unions in Sweden
The history, education, and professional practice of civil engineering in Sweden are briefly reviewed. The services and function of the Swedish Society of Civil Engineers and the National...
Career Growth for the Professional Engineer
The chief of General Electric Company's office whose job is to help professionals on the staff build their competence, tells the individual how to go about it. The most important...
Bailey's Crossroads: A/E Liability Test
In March 1973, a 24-story reinforced concrete building under construction at Bailey's Crossroads, Va., partially collapsed causing a total collapse of an adjoining parking...
Engineering the First Mass Transit Tramway
Aerial tramways are not normally considered for a cross-town mass transit system. They are no longer limited to the ski resorts since construction of the link between Manhattan Island...
New York City's New Town
New York City has taken advantage of a little used island, Roosevelt Island, in the middle of the East River to build a unique residential new town. The large development is connected...
Britain's Stevenage: Pathway Pioneer
There's been a boom in bike sales. Many new towns feature bike and pedestrian pathways. Many Americans are concerned about their health because they get too little exercise....
Computerized Traffic Signals; Good for My City�
Good question. The answer is, It depends. On freeways, some computer-controlled on-ramp signals are dramatically speeding rush-hour traffic. The situation is more complicated when you...
Largest and Lightest Fabric Roof to Date
A dome concept that could change roof design throughout the world is being used on the new Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium in Michigan. The roof is a cable restrained air supported fiberglass...
Landmarks in Reinforced Concrete
To properly understand the significance of ASCE'S National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks the instrumental steps in engineering history leading up to the landmarks period...
Proven Organic Coatings for Long Term Protection
Recent advances in coatings materials and their application make possible improved protection of structures in normal or agressive environments. Shopcoating and field application are compared....
Protection of Piles: Steel, Concrete, Wood
Normal construction materials have a very limited life when placed in a corrosive soil or water environment; steel rusts, concrete spalls, and wood rots (if the insects don't...
Dialog Between Engineers: Designers, Contractors, Manufacturers
A case history showing the untypical situation where engineers from all segments of the construction industry worked together to design and build a power plant. Site conditions were such...
Will Industry Meet Water-Quality Goals�
What impact will the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act Amendments (PL 92-500) have on American industry? Able to cope with 1977 requirement to install best practicable technology (BPT)?...
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...
OTA: Mixing Technology and National Goals
The need has developed for a broad multidisciplinary capability to assess technology, that is, to develop valid information about probable consequences, beneficial, harmful, or uncertain....
The Darwin Cyclone�� Valuable Lesson in Structural Design
Eighty percent of Darwin, Australia's residential buildings were severly damaged in the wake of cyclone Tracy in the early hours of December 25, 1974. Overall damage was caused...
Design and Construction of Steel Chimney Liners
This is believed to be the first book to be compiled and published on this subject, even though the steel liner is now the most widely used in fossil-fueled electric generating stations...
Earthquake Wave Transmission Through Saturated Soil
(Volume 1)...
Analysis and Design Relating to Embankments
(Volume 2)...
Open Cut Construction
Temporary Earth Retaining Structures
excavation...
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