Projects That Point
This is only a small sampling of what we can expect inthis decade. An $80 million kiln at Port Arthur, Tex., reportedly the largest of its kind in the U.S., handles bulk solids and sludges....
Do the Right Thing
Engineers and scientists at the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) are developing software to support water resource and environmental decision...
Anchoring a Dam
To comply with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements with regard to stability under a postulated Probable Maximum Flood, an extensive foundation investigation and stability...
Recent Lifeline Seismic Risk Studies
This monograph is a collection of four papers presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California. The papers summarize seismic loss and...
Building in Reservoirs
The Croton Supply System, one of the three major water supply systems for New York City, is undergoing extensive rehabilitation. In an innovative use of space, some of the new construction...
People Movers Move Downtown
Although the people mover has become a common sight at major airports in the U.S. and abroad, the sleek high tech vehicles have yet to establish themselves as a cost effective mode of...
Commuter Control
Traffic management systems are a relatively new way to expand the capacity of existing highways and to utilize new ones realistically. Several major systems have been in place and new...
Haunches and Hangers
The $210 million VA Medical Center at Houston features a structural system as innovative for the 1990s as the interstitial space concept was in the 1960s. The medical center, designed...
An Education in Tunneling
A senior civil engineer and winner of the 1988 Martin Kapp Foundation Engineering Award describes the evolution of U.S. tunneling technology and practice. Trained as a structural engineer,...
Representation of Strategic Choices in Structural Modeling
A major concern in structural modeling is the proper choice of tools to achieve stated objectives. Problem statements in structural analysis and design are usually made in fairly abstract...
Experiments on Active Structural Control Under Seismic Loads
Two control systems, an active tendon system and an active mass damper system are selected for study for possible real structural implementation. Presented in this paper are simulation...
Frequency Response Design of Controlled Structures
The installation of optimal control systems has been shown to be effective in reducing the vibration responses of structures. In addition to the effectiveness, there are many factors that...
Parallel Computations for Automated Finite Element Modeling
This paper discusses initial efforts to combine an automatic mesh generator and element by element solution approaches to produce efficient parallel computational procedures on adaptively,...
A KBES for Seismic Design of Buildings
A knowledge-based expert system for earthquake resistant design of buildings is described. The knowledge-intensive nature of the domain and the consequent motivation for an expert-system...
A Prototype Expert System for Steel Connections
A PC-based, menu-driven, five-module prototype knowledge-based system has been developed for steel connections. The system can solve various steel connection problems by utilizing the...
Automated Design of Reinforced Concrete Components
This paper presents strategies for automating the design of reinforcement in two types of concrete components, namely T-beams and circular columns. These strategies may serve as examples...
Computers in Civil Engineering Education at Clemson University
This paper describes the current use of computers in the civil engineering undergraduate education of students at Clemson Univrsity, the land-grant university of the State of South Carolina....
An Integrated Knowledge System of Seismic Vulnerability and Risk for Engineered Facilities
This paper describes an integrated knowledge system for the assessment of the seismic vulnerability and risk of engineered facilities. The system integrates knowledge from many fields...
A Knowledge-Based System for Evaluating the Seismic Resistance of Existing Buildings
The large number of existing buildings designed without considerations of seismic loading warrants the development of computer aids for the evaluation of their seismic resistance. Since...
Vector Optimization of Structural Systems
In this paper the basic ideas of vector optimization are presented, and both the weighting and constraint methods are applied to vector optimization of truss systems by minimizing the...
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