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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...

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...

Field Test Sections, Save Cost in Tunnel Support
This report is intended to stimulate improvements in underground works and their adoption by industry. It covers a broad range of topics, including promising concepts for tunnel support,...

Terzaghi Lectures
1963-1972
The lectures included in the books are: Foundation behavior of iron ore storage yards; Role of the calculated risk in earthwork and foundation engineering; Progressive failure in slopes...

Impact of Civil Engineering Projects on People and Nature
Project Summary Report Initial Methodology and Case Study Development
Studies were made by the American Society of Civil Engineers to develop and initiate, through test cases, a methodology for classifying, quantifying, and analyzing the impacts on people...

Economical Construction of Concrete Dams
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference held at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, May 14-18, 1972. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers....

Stability of Rock Slopes
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Rock Mechanics held at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, August 30 September 1, 1971. Sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for...

Guide for Design of Steel Transmission Towers
The purpose of this report, Guide for Design of Steel Transmission Towers, is to provide a basis for the structural design of self-supporting...

Committee on Backfilling in Public Rights-of-Way Final Report
The report is concerned primarily with evaluating types and properties of soils in the West and North sections of the city and county of St. Louis, field testing and evaluation of the...

Research Conference on Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils
Proceedings of the Research Conference on Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, June, 1960. Sponsored by the Soil Mechanics and Foundations...

American Standard Building Code Requirements for Excavations and Foundations
American Standard Building Code Requirements for Excavations and Foundations covers a broad range of relevant issues in building code requirements...

Pile Foundations and Pile Structures
This manual, Pile Foundations and Pile Structures, is an assembly of data relating to pile foundations and pile structures which is intended...

A.S.T.M. Specifications and Methods of Test
This document, A.S.T.M. Specifications and Methods of Test Referred to in the Report of the Joint Committee on Standard Specifications for Concrete and Reinforced...

Filtering Materials for Sewage Treatment Plants
Filtering Materials for Sewage Treatment Plants outlines the general bases for determining the relative suitability of various materials as...

Progress Report of the Special Committee on Materials for Road Construction and on Standards for Their Test and Use
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