O'Hare's Showstopper Terminal
United Airlines' new terminal was added to Chicago's O'Hare airport under difficult construction conditions. The airport is one of the world's...
Ocean Energy: Can It Compete?
Electric power plants using ocean energy are technically viable, but they tend to be cost-prohibitive. A study commissioned by the Electric Power Research Institute and carried out by...
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...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1986
Engineering Mechanics
6th Conference
Abstract only. A collection of abstracts of papers presented at the Sixth Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, held in Buffalo, New York, May 20-22, 1987....
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1986
The 1986 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1986. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
The Journal of Cold Regions Engineering publishes practice- and research-oriented articles from any area of civil engineering that is substantially related to cold regions. Topics include ice engineering,...
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
The Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering serves as a resource to researchers, practitioners, and students on advances and innovative ideas in computing as applicable to the engineering profession....
Computing in Civil Engineering
This book contains papers submitted for presentation at the Fourth Annual Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering. General topics include computer graphs, computer aided design, computer...
Advances in Controls to Govern Mini and Micro Hydropower Systems
Conventional controls available for small hydropower systems are surveyed. Electronic load controls for micro hydropower systems are described. Recent developments in the literature are...
Construction Management of Small Hydro Projects
A major driving force in the small hydro industry is the corps of private entrepreneurs actively engaged in the development of small hydro projects. While many of these developers are...
Re-Use of Civil Structures Make Norway Hydro Possible
Utilization of abandoned civil facilities made the addition of 1,800 KW to an operating 3,200 KW hydro plant of the City of Norway, Michigan Light and Power feasible. Work consisted of...
Two New Machines for Ultra Low-Head Hydropower
This paper outlines the development of two new types of positive displacement ultra low-head hydropower machines, the AUR Water Engine (AURWE) and the Salford Transverse Oscillator (STO)....
The Institutional Lender's View of Project Insurance Issues
The purposes of this article are to describe the typical insurance requirements of project financing institutions (particularly for projects with an insurable value of less than 20 million)...
Hydraulic Transients?Helms Pumped Storage Project
Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Helms Pumped Storage project is a large underground hydroelectric development which went into commercial operation in June 1984. Because...
Prospects for Hydroelectric Power Development at Corps of Engineer Dams
There are two basic approaches to developing hydroelectric power facilities at Corps dams. The Corps can develop projects at the request of Congress through the authorization process....
Computer Aided Design of Small Hydro Turbine
The paper discusses a system for producing custom designed turbines which are attractive in price and delivery, retaining the advantages of customization. A computerized program is being...
The Design, Analysis and Manufacturing of Pickwick Landing Replacement Runners
This paper presents new computer automated techniques for the design, analysis and manufacture of Kaplan turbine blades. The inlet flow field was determined using the finite element program...
Design and Manufacture of Turbine Runner Blades Using CAD/CAM-Technology
Interactive blade design, fluid flow analysis, stress analysis and NC-matching of both model and prototype blades are working from a common data base and are demonstrated in this paper....
Computerized Engineering for the Hydraulic Design of Hydro-Turbine Stay Vanes
To design a turbine stay vane as an integral part of the spiral case/stay vane/wicket gate waterpassage, both the vane geometry and the gate/vane position must be developed and analyzed....
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