ASCE Annual Combined Index 1993
The ASCE Annual Index-1993 provides a guide to the material appearing in publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers published during 1993. This includes papers and technical...
Coastal Groins and Nearshore Breakwaters
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers No. 6. This book provides guidance for the design and placement...
Recommendations for Standards in Hydraulics
Prepared by the Task Committee on Recommendations for Standards in Hydraulics of the Hydraulics Division of ASCE. This report investigates whether...
Roller Compacted Concrete IV
This engineering manual
Retaining and Flood Walls
The engineering manual
Modular Evolution
The construction industry typically thinks of modular steel bridges in terms of the World War II vintage Bailey Bridge. The Bailey Bridge was designed to be quickly deployed to replace...
A League of Their Own
New baseball stadiums in Cleveland and Arlington, Tex., opening in April 1994, combine the nostalgia of traditional ballparks with state-of-the-art site planning and structural engineering....
Multimedia in Civil Engineering
Multimedia inspires so many claims and hype that it can be hard for engineers to figure out what's real and what's not. The truth is that multimedia holds great...
The Channel Tunnel: Larger Than Life, and Late
The Channel tunnel opens in May, but passenger service will be delayed while final testing on trains and electrical systems are completed. The English Channel tunnel crossing is the world's...
Microsurfacing Urban Pavements
A European maintenance technique called microsurfacing can add years to the service life of cracked, ravelled pavements--with minimal interruption to traffic and for less than half the...
Is It Necessary to Compromise Engineering Ethics to Remain Competitive in Today's Marketplace?
The test of time has shown that by maintaining high ethical values, one can succeed in any marketplace, no matter how competitive, says the winner of the 1993 Daniel W. Mead Essay Contest...
Solar Stretch
Extrapolating from structural work with textile or metal membrane roofs to cover silos, assembly halls and sports stadia, Schlaich, Bergermann and Partners, a structural engineering firm...
Lightweight Concrete for a Segmental Bridge
Structural lightweight concrete can help increase the stiffness and decrease the mass of a bridge; both are qualities that make the structure more likely to survive an earthquake. Ordinarily,...
Flood Control vs. Flood Management
For the last 130 years, flood policy in the U.S. has been dominated by the belief that floods can be controlled by structural methods, such as levees, dikes and embankments. These efforts...
Analyzing Field Data for Hazen-Williams and Darcy-Weisbach Equations
Headloss Analysis for Modern Piping Systems
Flow Capacity of Rehabilitated Sanitary Sewers
Selecting Controls for Water Distribution Systems
Use of Hydraulic Control Valves in Deep-Well Pump Station Design Under Low/No Discharge Pressure
To Microtunnel or Not to Microtunnel? The Construction of the Crown Point Trunk Sewer
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