The Chicago Lakefront Plan - 1986
Although Chicago is considered to have one of the world's most beautiful and also stable waterfronts, much of its shore protection is in imminent danger of failure. Nearly...

Timber Bulkheads
Timber bulkhead design and construction methods are presented in this publication for consideration by the engineering profession. Included are papers on an analytical method for the design...

Structural Engineering and Microcomputers
This publication contains five papers on the use of microcomputers by structural engineers. The first paper discusses the design of multi-story rigid steel frames. The design process employed...

Spanning the Seas
A proposed structural scheme, called the V�tower system, could cross vast stretches of water with record length spans yet use only conventional materials. An example is a bridge proposed...

Building Constructed Up and Down at Once
The One Westwood Building, now going up in Los Angeles' suburban Westwood, is being built up and down from ground level simultaneously. The key was a slurry wall surrounding...

Pressure Fluctuations on the Floow of Hydraulic Jumps
This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation regarding the variation of r. m. s. value of pressure fluctuations on the floor of free and forced hydraulic jumps formed...

Overview of the Guidelines for T/L Structure Loadings
This section introduces a reliability based design methodology that forms the framework for the loading guidelines. A Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) format is presented for the...

Development and Use of Stress Laminated Timber Deck Bridges
This presentation provides a brief overview of the concepts, development, research needs, economics and recent use of stress laminated timber bridge decks. Repeated articles on the serious...

Micro=Lam? LVL: A New Alternative for Timber Bridges
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) provides a unique opportunity to obtain large structural members from ever-smaller trees. It provides the added benefit of high treatability. This paper explains...

Seismic Response of Simple Structures with Coulomb Damping
A single story structure incorporating a floor-sliding mechanism for dissipation of vibration energy through Coulomb friction damping is examined. The response of this structure is evaluated...

Fishing the Four-Lane
Recent changes in one Montana canyon have shown that even highways and freshwater fish can happily coexist with the proper planning. Twenty years ago, the Montana Department of Highways...

Building Structures
This volume contains over forty papers from thirteen sessions of Structures Congress '87. The papers include a variety of topics on the overall behavior and design of buildings...

Artist in Wood Structures
Julius Natterer is chairman on the Institute for Wood Structures at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and designer of more unusual or unique wood structures...

CAD Maps Ocean Floor
This article describes the Navy's use of computer aided design to map-out a 250 sq mi expansion of an anti-submarine warfare training facility in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Three hundred...

Back on Track at Coney
All New York City subway repairs take place at a repair shop in Coney Island. The shop's floor was plagued by settlement problems since its construction on a filled swamp...

Mini Hydro at the Hackett Mills Project
The project includes rehabilitation of a timber crib dam and the first use of a Right Angle Drive turbine in the United States to generate power from the 16 feet of head available at the...

Conversion Experience at the Chief Joseph Dam Project
In August, 1983, Woodward Governor Company was awarded U. S. Army Corps of Engineers contract DACW67-83-C-0076 to convert ten existing Allis-Chalmers and six existing Woodward Governor...

Strength Data Base for LRFD of Transmission Lines
Reliability-Based Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) has been proposed as a desirable alternative or a complement to the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) for the structural...

35-Year-Old Foundations, Thule Air Base, Greenland
In February 1951 the secret project 'Blue Jay' to construct the base began. Timber piling were used in the foundations of boilers, generators, and other heavy...

Design and Monitoring of an Ice Drill Pad
An ice pad was sucessfully designed and built to provide a suitable foundation for an exploratory drill rig in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska in early 1985. Design considerations...

 

 

 

 

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