Site Investigations: A Guide (available in Geoenvironmental Special Issue only)
A geotechnical engineer looks at the evolution of reports on subsurface conditions, the most uncertain portion of construction. Most of the cost and risk of construction occurs beneath...
Freeway to the Future
A new network model is emerging introducing a new step between servers and desktops: middleware servers with querying software. The new network architecture, combined with the use of both...
Solid Footing (available in Geoenvironmental Special Issue only)
The new $500 million Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino, Calif., sits near two fault lines. The importance of the facility and the sensitivity of the area made seismic...
Paradise Crossed
Hawaii's Interstate H-3 project is the winner of the 1998 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. The highway, built to alleviate commuter congestion and to link...
Airport Facilities
Innovations for the Next Century
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Traffic and Transportation Studies
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Climate Control
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has created its own customized weather information system to improve efficiency in its winter road maintenance operations. Intended...
Cable-Stay Conundrum
Wind- and rain-induced vibrations of cables on cable-stayed bridges are a relatively new phenomenon. While some observers report hearing about such vibrations ten or 12 years ago, typically...
Preparing for Pier A
Earthquakes, oil wells, contamination and unstable soil were among the challenges engineers faced as they prepared a site at California's port of Long Beach for the Pier A...
Cellar Performance (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue only)
Even though the Pentagon contains three times the square footage of the Empire State Building, free space has become hard to come by. Expanding computer, mechanical and electrical systems...
Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill for Embankments and Retaining Walls
Use of tire shreds in three highway projects is described. In the first project, tire shreds were used as a compressible inclusion to reduce pressures on a rigid frame bridge. Earth pressures...
Behavior of Construction and Demolition Debris in Base and Subbase Applications
The design performance of a pavement system is evaluated based on the predicted number of load repetitions it will be subjected to throughout its service life. Mechanistic pavement design...
Launched Bridges
Coldhearted Building
A 20,000-ton district cooling plant owned by the Public Service Company of Colorado was recently built to sell chilled water to customers in downtown Denver who will use it to air-condition...
Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow
This text is designed to make a deliberate effort to extend the modern fluid mechanics approach into the analysis of open channel flow without necessarily requiring the use of advanced...
Sky High
The increasing demand for personal communication services (PCS), such as digital cell phones and pagers, as well as digital television (DTV), has created new challenges for creating and...
Rebuilding History
Deterioration of the second-oldest multiple-arch masonry viaduct in the country�in Canton, Mass.�threatened its ability to continue carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains,...
Cold Regions Impact on Civil Works
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Design and Construction of Earth Retaining Systems
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Effects of Construction on Structures
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