Do the Right Thing
Engineers and scientists at the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) are developing software to support water resource and environmental decision...
Rochester Stops the Deluge
After a slew of stopgap waste-treatment plants failed to solve Rochester's chronic storm water and sewage overflow problem, city officials changed direction in the late 1960s....
Environmental Engineering
This proceedings was presented at the Environmental Engineering 1990 Specialty Conference sponsored by the Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers...
Recent Lifeline Seismic Risk Studies
This monograph is a collection of four papers presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California. The papers summarize seismic loss and...
Supplying Water and Saving the Environment for Six Billion People
This proceedings was presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California on November 5-8, 1990. Out of the 47 sessions presented at the...
Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources
This proceedings represents an edited selection of papers presented at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources, held in Santa Barbara, California...
Numerical Model for Tsunami Run-Up
Originally published in: Journal of the Waterways, Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division, ASCE, WW3, August 1970, pp. 701-719...
Advancement in Tidal Hydraulics
This paper will discuss advances in the field of tidal hydraulics since the inception of the ASCE Hydraulics Division 50 years ago. Activities of the Committees on Tidal Hydraulics of...
Surface Water Hydrology
A brief history is presented of activities in surface water hydrology by the Hydraulics Division since 1938. Included is an historical review of division activities in such areas as precipitation...
Contributions by the Hydraulics Division of ASCE to the Advancement of Ground-Water Hydrology
Papers related to ground-water hydrology published in Proceedings of the ASCE and in Hydraulics Division journals from 1938 through mid-1988 are briefly summarized. The areas covered are...
Research in ASCE's Hydraulics Division
Research in the Hydraulics Division of ASCE during the last 50 years has undergone changes in both technical content and procedures. Open channel flow, sediment transport and pipe flow...
Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydraulics
The Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydraulics Monograph is the eighth in a series of monographs prepared by the ASCE Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering. The book is intended to...
Geosynthetic Shields For Dams
A series of large dams in Europe, waterproofed by geosynthetics, may become U.S. prototypes. In Europe, the faces of more than 30 large dams now contain geotextiles and geomembranes. In...
Building in Reservoirs
The Croton Supply System, one of the three major water supply systems for New York City, is undergoing extensive rehabilitation. In an innovative use of space, some of the new construction...
Diatomaceous Soils: A New Approach
Diatomaceous soils are formed over long periods of time when the skeletal remains of plankton and other single-celled marine creatures sink and accumulate in lakes, estuaries and oceans....
Water Transport in Limestone by X-Ray CAT Scanning
The transport of water through the interior of Salem limestone test briquettes can be dynamically monitored by computer aided tomography (commonly called CAT scanning in medical diagnostics)....
Enhancing Concrete Durability by Treatment with Sealers
This paper summarizes some of the research which has been undertaken on sealers for hardened concrete during the last ten years at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates. Inc. The research used...
Lessons Learned in Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Accelerated Strength Tests for Quality Control of Concrete Pavements
This paper describes the results of an accelerated strength testing program performed to evaluate flexural strength potential at 28- and 90-days. Based upon a literature review of previous...
Containment Model ? Test Program and Results
Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) completed the testing of a 1:6-scale containment building for a Light Water Reactor (LWR) in July 1987. The containment building was made of reinforced...
Development of a Test Validated Methodology for Predicting Concrete Containment Leakage
In the past several years, considerable research effort has been devoted by the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the behavior of reactor...
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