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Total Cost Purchase Options Buy vs Lease vs Rental Conversion Cash Flow Analysis
Today's financing alternatives are very complex and sometimes difficult to comprehend. The combined effect of the slow economy and uncertain future workload has accelerated...

Alternative Methods for Payment of Construction Equipment Ownership Costs on Federally Funded Projects
Construction equipment investment is a significant portion of the capital investment for contractors specializing in heavy construction. Operating this equipment under the changes clause...

Financial Statement Impact of the Rent/Lease/Buy Decision for Contractors using Heavy Equipment
Contractors with substantial equipment requirements must carefully weigh all of the quantitative and qualitative factors related to how they finance their equipment. Certain of these factors...

Earthwork and Resource Estimation on Large Expedient Projects
A computer-aided technique is being developed for planning, design, estimating, and scheduling of horizontal construction for facilities required to support military operations. This technique...

Teaching Experiment in Real-Time Construction Data Acquisition
This paper describes an experiment used in an undergraduate civil engineering course to familiarize students with interfacing electronic instruments mounted on a construction machine to...

ATC Methodology and Data for Rapid Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability
Recently developed Applied Technology Council (ATC) methodology and data provide a technical basis for rapid assessment of structure seismic vulnerability. Methodology developed under...

Evaluation of the Seismic Performance of Buildings
The aim of the paper is to present the different existing methodologies available for the assessment of seismic damage to buildings. The approach aims towards the development of a mini-computer...

Techniques for Estimating Earthquake Probable Loss for Buildings and Contents
The probable maximum loss (PML) is useful for quantifing the seismic risk exposure of a facility and for rational decision making regarding earthquake insurance and seismic strengthening...

Rapid Identification of High Risk Building in Seismic Regions Using Expert Systems
Seismic risk evaluation is a complex problem because it involves many factors such as ground motion, ground failure potential and structural performance with great uncertainties. Many...

Seismic Risk Analysis of a Multi-Site Portfolio of Buildings
A discussion of a methodology that permits the assessment of the seismic risk associated with a group of buildings and incorporates relevant aspects of seismic hazard assessment including...

Solving Nonlinear Equations on a Hypercube
Certain classes of nonlinear systems of equations, such as polynomial systems have properties that make them particularly amenable to solution on distributed computing systems. Some algorithms,...

Supercomputers and their Impact on Civil Engineering
The increasing complexity of today's civil engineering applications requires increasing detail and analyses with associated increased demands on computer resources. At the...

The Promise of Supercomputers
This paper briefly reviews the classification and general architecture of supercomputers: their capabilities, promise, current and projected limitations are considered. The author reviews...

CAPPS: Custom Architectured Parallel Processing System
CAPPS (Custom Architectured Parallel Processing System) is under development at Paragon Pacific Inc. , Torrance, CA, for the solution of computationally intensive engineering problems....

Guide to Investigation of Structural Failures
Prepared by the Research Council on Performance of Structures of ASCE. This report contains guidelines for conducting an investigation into the causes...

Lessons Learned from Design, Construction, and Performance of Hydraulic Structures
The intent of this publication is to provide lessons learned, both positive and negative, from activities associated with design, construction, and performance of hydraulic structures....

Microtunneling: No Pipe Dream
Microtunneling machines developed in Japan and Germany can help install pipes, ducts and cables without disrupting urban activities at street level. A microtunnel is defined as having...

Study of the Collapse of a Reinforced Concrete Model Structure Under Simulated Earthquake Motion
The collapse, under simulated earthquake motion, of a multistory r/c frame structure with columns flexurally weaker than beams (SBWC) is studied. A small-scale model, comprising parallel...

Approaches to Acceptable Risk
Acceptable risk has numerous meanings, that are derived from its having been defined in multiple arenas and by multiple groups. This paper describes several approaches to the question...

A System Framework for Engineering Risk Analysis
A mathematical system framework is developed to model a series of criteria called performance indices (PI) related to engineering risk in water resources. Such criteria include reliability,...

 

 

 

 

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