Composite and Mixed Construction
Steel and reinforced concrete are frequently combined in composite or mixed structural systems. This combination generally results isn greater economy and safety than could be achieved...
Coastal Zone '85
Coastal Zone '85 was a multidisciplinary conference for professionals, interested citizens, and decision-makers to exchange information and views. Coastal zone management...
The Outardes 2 Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dam
The main dam of the Outardes 2 development consists of a rockfill embankment, built against an old water-retaining structure, and faced with an upstream concrete membrane. The interface...
Foz do Areia Dam?Design, Construction, and Behaviour
The 525 ft (160 m) high Foz do Areia dam in the Iguacu River, Parana, Brazil, built by 'Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL', between 1975-1980, is part of...
Design Features of Salvajina Dam
Salvajina dam is the second highest concrete face rockfill dam currently in service in the world. The characteristics of the foundation of the toe slab vary from fresh, sound and little...
Design and Construction of Terror Lake Dam
Terror Lake Dam is a central feature of the 189 million Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on Kodiak Island Alaska. The dam is a 193-feet (59 m) high concrete-faced zoned rockfill...
Seismic Design of Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams
The results of analytical studies of the stability of the slopes of concrete-faced rockfill dams under different levels of earthquake shaking are presented and used to propose desirable...
Seismic Analysis of Concrete Face Rockfill Dams
In this article, the observed behavior of existing rockfill dams during earthquakes is compared with published data regarding the estimated seismic performance of several recently designed...
Design and Stability Evaluation of Balsam Meadow Dam
The proposed Balsam Meadow Dam is a 126 feet high concrete-faced rolled rockfill dam currently under construction for the Balsam Meadow hydroelectric project in California. Detailed field...
Design of Deer Creek Dam
The Deer Creek Dam is proposed to be a concrete face rockfill structure (CFRD) with upstream and downstream slopes nominally 1. 3 horizontal to 1 vertical. The embankment will rise 280...
Rockfill Compression Tests and Other Aspects of the Design of Miel I Dam
The Miel I Dam, a high concrete face rockfill dam, is one of the main structures designed for the Miel I Hydroelectric Project in Colombia. Selection of dam type was based on technical...
The Design of Macagua Concrete Face Rockfill Dam
This article describes the design characteristics of the concrete face rockfill dam at Macagua, which will have a total length of about 9,200 ft (2,800 m), an average height of 66 ft (20,0...
Low Cement Content High Strength Concrete
The fundamental objective of this research project was to develop mix design information for structural grade concrete using high fly ash content. The fly ash used in this project was...
Advances in Fiber Reinforced Concrete
The idea of using strong discontinuous fibers as reinforcement for concrete seems to have been both a seduction and a challenge to many civil engineers. Adding the reinforcement to the...
Rational Design of Beam-Columns in Steel
The paper discusses the procedure as currently recommended in the AISC Manual for selection of beam-columns in steel and points to the inadequacy of this procedure for quick convergence...
Unsymmetrically Reinforced Concrete Columns
The development of column strength formulas for unsymmetrically reinforced sections has been developed in previous papers. However, aids such as interaction diagrams have not been available...
Towards Rational Design of Structural Members in Reinforced Concrete
With the increasing emphasis on cookbook designs, plug-in and punch-in formulas, and punch-in numbers in the personal computer program, there is a danger that the designer may accept the...
A Summary of the Seismic Qualification Utilities Group (SQUG) Program
In December of 1980, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) initiated Unresolved Safety Issue (USI) A-46 to address the question of the seismic adequacy of equipment in 49 operating nuclear...
Obtaining Reliable Data from Fragility Tests
The parameters discussed in this paper are the same as those present in normal seismic qualification testing. These parameters behave differently in high level acceleration tests and their...
Earthquake Experience Data on Power and Industrial Structures: Applications to Seismic Design and Evaluation
An extensive study was conducted to document the seismic performance of typical power plant and industrial structures in selected recent strong earthquakes and to correlate the performance...
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