Upriver Dam Hydroelectric Project Rehabilitation After Failure, Part A: Failure Investigation and Lessons to be Learned
A lightning strike caused electrical failure at Spokane's two Upriver power plants, resulting in the river overtopping Project embankments, and causing nearly 11. 5 million...
Pyrites Hydroelectric Project, Canton, New York
This paper describes the Pyrites Hydroelectric Project in Canton, New York, an 8-MW project completed in December 1985. The key to its successful development was a team approach that included...
Landmarks in Civil Engineering
Historic American engineering projects sampled in this article represent those documented in
Sewage Plant Engineered for Value
The Camden County (NJ) Municipal Utilities Authority was formed in 1972 to cope with suburban growth that had overloaded 34 primary treatment plants. By the early 1990s, the Authority...
Sensing by Satellite
Commercially available data collected by U.S. and French satellites re helping civil engineers take a closer look at our planet. Also available are PC-based image processing systems that...
Geotechnical Exploration and Site Preparation Techniques for Large Mall in Karst Terrain
A large commercial mall and secondary developments were planned for construction in a karst area near Clarksville, Tennessee. A geotechnical exploration was conducted to evaluate the occurence...
Treatment of Karst Along Tennessee Highways
The construction and maintenance of highways in karst areas of East Tennessee has resulted in the occurrence and treatment of induced sinkholes along the ditchlines of numerous highways....
Geosynthetics for Soil Improvement: A General Report and Keynote Address
The paper summarizes major developments in the field of geosynthetics since the previous symposium in 1980. The paper addresses the engineering functions of major types of geosynthetics,...
Highway Factors in Truck Wrecks
An examination is presented of highway factors as they interact with driver and vehicle factors in large truck accident causation. Examples of highway defects are discussed along with...
A Reassessment of Codified Limit States Design
This paper examines the nature of design codes and their relation to engineering practice. It suggests that codes impose unjustifiable and, in the long term, destructive constraints on...
A Probabilistic 3-D Short-Term Slope Stability Model
A probabilistic model to analyze the three-dimensional stability of earth slopes under short-term conditions is presented. An actual failure case is studied to show the implementation...
STOCAL-II-An Instructional Software for Random Vibrations
STOCAL-II (Computer Assisted Learning of STOchastic methods) is an instructional software for teaching random vibrations and applied stochastic processes. It is based on and is an extension...
A Stochastic Seismological Model in Earthquake Engineering
Recent studies of source mechanisms and wave propagation models enable one to generate strong motions based on deterministic source and source-to-site characteristics. The normal mode...
An Expert System for Reliability Engineering
The goal in this project is to create an expert system to do failure mode investigations from 'first principles,' or the basic understanding of the way components...
Experiences with Applications of Importance Sampling in Structural Reliability Computations
This paper presents some experiences and observations relating to the use of importance sampling in structural systems reliability computations. These are presented with three examples,...
Stochastic Properties of Wind Spectra
In the first part of this paper the correlation function of measured wind spectra is compared with theoretical correlation models assuming a stationary wind process. This comparison indicates...
Approximate Reasoning in Engineering Decision Analysis
In this paper, the concept and methods of approximate reasoning are reviewed and discussed. The methodology of combining precise results of exact analysis, approximate solutions of exact...
Nonstationary Random Vibration with REDUCE
Computerized symbolic algebra, in conjunction with the code REDUCE, is utilized in dealing with nonstationary random vibration of single-degree-of-freedom systems. Application of REDUCE...
Tidewater Virginia's Water Supply Problem: Implications for State Water Management
Attempts to expand water supply in response to continuing urban growth in Virginia's Tidewater region has produced prolonged conflict among the area's local governments...
Regional Water Cooperation: An Alternative to Interbasin Transfer
Due to political and environmental impacts interbasin transfer is often regarded as an undesirable alternative for water supply development. However, water authorities will pursue interbasin...
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