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Fishing the Four-Lane
Recent changes in one Montana canyon have shown that even highways and freshwater fish can happily coexist with the proper planning. Twenty years ago, the Montana Department of Highways...

Building High Tech in China
The tallest steel structure in the People's Republic of China is being built by an international complement of designers, suppliers, vendors and contractors. It is the 42...

A Microcomputer Storm Sewer Program for Highway Drainage Design
This paper presents results and findings of an ongoing research project on highway drainage sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration through the Virginia Transportation Research...

Highway Statistics Summary on Microcomputers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is under an interagency agreement with the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, to prepare the necessary historical highway...

Materials and Member Behavior
Each of the papers in this book covers some aspect of material properties. New developments in cold formed steel are reviewed. The strength, stiffness, and ductility of steel connections...

Building Structures
This volume contains over forty papers from thirteen sessions of Structures Congress '87. The papers include a variety of topics on the overall behavior and design of buildings...

Computer Applications in Structural Engineering
The papers in this book deal with the development or application of software systems to the design, analysis, and drafting activities associated with engineered structures. A number of...

Dynamics of Structures
This volume includes the papers presented at the 6th Structures Congress of ASCE which deal with the analysis, design, and behavior of civil engineering structures and facilities subjected...

Harbor Revived
In Racine, Wis., officials' plans to turn a defunct commercial harbor into a recreational boaters' paradise have signaled an economic turn-around for a depressed...

Tunnel Saved by Flyash
When inspection early in 1986 showed that Detroit's Northeast Raw Water Tunnel was near collapse at one location, quick action and a unique use of flyash-cement grout or fill...

Fail Safe Management
Engineers are increasingly embroiled in cases where failure is defined as improper administration or management of a procedure instead of the collapse of a structure or the failure of...

Artist in Wood Structures
Julius Natterer is chairman on the Institute for Wood Structures at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and designer of more unusual or unique wood structures...

CAD Maps Ocean Floor
This article describes the Navy's use of computer aided design to map-out a 250 sq mi expansion of an anti-submarine warfare training facility in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Three hundred...

Database Management Systems for Urban Facilities
This paper discusses design and implementation issues associated with the development of database management systems (DBMS) for urban facilties. Many of the experiences described here...

Wind Tunnel Model Studies of Buildings and Structures
This manual provides guidelines on wind tunnel model testing of buildings and structures. Included are procedures required to provide representative information on wind effects experienced...

Expert Systems for Civil Engineers
Technology and Application
This book identifies expert systems technology and describes some applications to civil engineering problems. The first part of the book is on expert system technology. Expert system components...

Exhibits Under Fiberglass
The San Diego Convention Center, scheduled for completion in 1988, is located on 11 acres of downtown land only 150 ft from the bay. It will cost $130 million for total of 1.7 million...

Digestor Do-Over
Digesters at 6 Orange County (Calif.) wastewater treatment plants needed drastic odor control rehabilitation. Repairs included epoxy patching to cracked domes, installation of a geomembrane...

Finite Element Idealization for Linear Elastic, Static, and Dynamic Analysis of Structures in Engineering Practice
This report by the Finite Element Idealization Task Committee is a comprehensive aid for modeling structures for finite element analysis. The first part covers static analysis. Aspects...

Turbine Efficiency Loss Associated with Draft Tube Aeration
Draft tube aeration is one method for improving the dissolved oxygen content of hydroelectric discharges. A simple analytical procedure is presented for estimating the loss in turbine...

 

 

 

 

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