Construction Approaches to the Navy's Floating Pier Concept
The subject of this paper is a floating pier which is currently under evaluation as a more cost-effective solution for berthing Navy ships. This new approach to pier design was sponsored...
An OCEANWHEEL Breakwater
The compression wall and tension spoke structural system (OCEANWHEEL) transfers lateral loads from sea surface to seafloor efficiently. It promises a wide variety of uses beyond the described...
Carnation Terminal, Oakland?Preliminary Design
The Preliminary Design process is examined as it was applied to design of wharves for a new container terminal in the Port of Oakland, California. The process includes active interdisciplinary...
South Beach Harbor Project: Redevelopment of the San Francisco Waterfront
The redevelopment of a portion of San Francisco's Northern Waterfront is recounted, describing the planning and design process used to take an area of obsolete maritime facilities...
Planning for Deep-Draft Navigation Channels
This paper summarizes the trends in seaboard trade, the major commodities for the world, and the share captured by U. S. ports. The discussion includes the new developments of port planning...
Navigation Channel Design for Safe and Efficient Ship Transit
The U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) recently conducted a hydraulic model investigation of the western portion of Cleveland Harbor, Ohio. This study provided data...
Geotechnical Considerations in the Design of the Wando Terminal Wharf Extension, Charleston, South Carolina
The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SPA) is currently examining construction concepts for the proposed 1,200-foot wharf extension and 40 acres of adjacent upland development at the...
Channel Design Criteria and the Houston Ship Channel
Channel design literature is reviewed and compared with operational limits currently on the Houston Ship Channel (HSC). It was found that in all aspects of channel design considered (depth,...
Additional Benefits from Channel Improvements
This paper describes techniques used to quantify three types of benefits resulting from enlarging the Houston Ship Channel. These benefit types are vessel casualty reduction, delay reduction...
National Port Issues
The adequacy of U. S. ports to meet the Nation's present and future needs was evaluated by a Committee of the Marine Board, National Research Council. The changing character...
Local Government Infrastructure Management
The collection of papers presents real world experiences and practical suggestions for improving infrastructure management in local governments. A case study is presented on how a computer-based...
Dynamic Response of Structures
The primary goal of the third specialty conference on the dynamics of structures was to provide a forum for dialogue between engineers conducting experimental tests and those developing...
Effects of Deterioration on Safety and Reliability of Structures
Deterioration of structural and non-structural elements in commercial, industrial and residential constructions is of general concern to investors, design engineers, architects, contractors...
Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
The importance of expert systems, also referred to as knowledge based expert systems, has been growing in all areas of civil engineering practice. The papers in this book were presented...
Superminis for Super CAD
Many second time users of computer-aided design software and hardware, in their efforts to have more power and flexibility, are switching to superminicomputers and building their own systems....
Bridge Management: Computer Aided Priorities
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has invested $3.6 million in developing the concept and software for a Bridge Management System that will help determine the needs...
Expert Systems Enter the Marketplace
Civil engineering expert systems (computer programs that incorporate some of the decision-making capabilities of the top experts in a given subdiscipline) are beginning to come on the...
Taming Lively Buildings
Mechanical damping systems are increasingly being used for controlling dynamic responses of tall buildings. Several types of dampers are described, and compared, beginning with the three...
Postmodern Engineering
Momentum Place is a postmodern skyscraper in Dallas designed by architects John Burgee and Philip Johnson. The Datum-Moore Partnership, structural engineers, designed the structural system...
Ft. Lauderdale Wellfield Protection
Results of the study on groundwater contamination measurement and control are reported. The goal of this study was to ensure a safe and long-term supply of drinking water to the City of...
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