Future Fire Codes
Performance-based fire codes are a trend worldwide. The idea is to get away from prescriptive, cook-book codes that dictate design. Performance based codes should be more rational and...
Automated People Movers VI
Creative Access for Major Activity Centers
The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Automated People Movers (APMs) in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-12, 1997, includes 75 papers. Papers provide an introduction to APMs,...
High-Tech Text
ASCE is involved in two high-tech initiatives that will bring information to engineers in new ways. An interactive textbook for fluid mechanics courses incorporates many advanced visual...
Sim City of Angels
Using advanced computing techniques, UCLA researchers are developing a virtual model of the entire 4,000 sp mi Los Angeles basin. Accurate to the level of graffiti on the walls and store...
Water Resources and the Urban Environment
This proceedings,
Functional Considerations for Restoration: A User's Guide for Streambank Stabilization
A brief outline of functional considerations for streambank stabilization....
Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems
This committee report,
How to Succeed in Business...
As civil engineering continues to evolve as a profession, consulting engineers must continually re-invent their businesses and their practices. In this article, consulting engineers talk...
Big Digs Around the World
This proceedings,
Engineering History and Heritage
This proceedings
Filtration and Drainage in Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineering
This proceedings,
Pipeline Route Selection for Rural and Cross-Country Pipelines
Prepared by the Task Committee to Rewrite Manual of Practice 46 of Committee on Pipeline Installation and Location of the Pipeline Division of ASCE ...
Soil Improvement for Big Digs
This proceedings,
Stability of Natural Slopes in the Coastal Plain
This proceedings,
Standing Firm: When Ethics are Challenged
The Daniel W. Mead Prize for Younger Members is awarded annually for the best paper on ethics submitted by an ASCE younger member. Participants in the 1998 contest responded to a specific...
Deep Mixing Method: A Global Perspective
Various contemporary deep mixing method (DMM) techniques have been used in the United States since 1986. Such techniques owe their origins to Japanese and Scandinavian developments, which...
Ethics: A Professional Concern
The 1998 Daniel W. Mead Student winner answers the essay question What is the role of ethics in professionalism? by discussing ethical conduct as the key to gaining public trust and obtaining...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1997
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers Vol. 162, 1997 contains abstracts for all ASCE journal and periodical papers and technical notes, Civil Engineering - ASCE feature...
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1997
The 1997 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1997. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Opportunities in Asia
An Assessment of Construction Trends, Needs, and Potential Collaborations
Prepared by Civil Engineering Research Foundation. This book presents findings of a 1996 technology assessment mission to East Asia that examined the...
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