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Manpower Planning?Make a Moral Contract
One key to manpower planning is forecasting realistic and accurate manhour projections for work in-house or work in the proposal stage. A method used by the author to project manhours...

Manpower Planning for Construction Administration
Manpower planning is an important aspect of any organization, but is particularly difficult in an activity subject to as many variables as highway construction. This paper outlines a process...

Business Planning for Engineering Projects
Fluor Engineers is a full-service international engineering firm serving the process and energy industries. In conjunction with other Fluor subsidiaries, Daniel Constructors and Fluor...

In-House Training in the Corps of Engineers
The Corps of Engineers is very active in the training of its employees and the results of training are the growth and professionalism of the employees. Supervisors must always develop...

Frequency Domain Analysis of a Tank-Soil System
The dynamic response of an elastic cylindrical tank supported on a rigid base under a harmonic vertical excitation is analyzed taking into consideration its interaction with the foundation...

The Asbestos Impasse
Removing asbestos from the nation's buildings is a major task . Consulting engineers can play an important part in the process, locating and quantifying the carcinogenic material,...

U.S.-Japan Coordinated Program on Masonry Research
An overview of the U. S. -Japan Coordinated Program on Masonry Research is presented. The program consists of parallel efforts in Japan and the United States to develop design methods...

A Critical Look at Building Instrumentation in Earthquake Engineering
This paper discusses different issues and requirements existing in the area of building instrumentation. Strategies and types of equipment currently being used by the United States Geological...

Use of Vibration Tests to Determine Lateral Load Paths in Medium Rise Buildings
A structural system identification procedure is described in which an initial analytical model of a building is modified until it predicts accurately the mode shapes and natural frequencies...

Strengthening of a Multi-Story Building with Deflection Constraints
Occasionally the existing structural or nonstructural systems of a building being strengthened require the imposition of deflection constraints or limits in order to avoid an undesirable...

Regional Risk Assessment of Existing Buildings
This paper describes current research underway at Stanford University designed to develop a methodology for determining high risk buildings in a region. The work involves developing a...

Seismic Restraint of Hazardous Process Piping
The lack of appropriate guidelines for the design and installation of hazardous process piping in industrial facilities has created a potentially dangerous situation. Process piping carrying...

Wind Loads and Building Response Predictions Using Force Balance Techniques
The use of force balance techniques to measure mean and dynamic wind loads on models of buildings and structures is discussed. Advantages of using force balance techniques over estimating...

Building Identification: Needs and Means
The need to conduct 'system identification' of existing buildings by nondestructive testing is discussed. A recommended flow-chart is exemplified. Existing dynamic...

Evaluation of Seismic Strengthening of an Existing Building Using Base Isolation
This paper summarizes a study performed by Englekirk and Hart, Inc. to evaluate the feasibility of using base isolation to seismically upgrade an existing highrise building. To realize...

Earthquake Response of Five Story Reinforced Concrete Masonry Test Building
In 1986, a full-scale five story reinforced masonry test building is to be constructed in the Japan Building Research Institute Large-Scale Structure Test Laboratory, and through 1987...

System Identification Applied to Pseudo-Dynamic Test Data: A Treatment of Experimental Errors
A single-input single-output system identification technique, used to estimate the modal properties of a full-scale six-story steel structure tested within its elastic range by the pseudo-dynamic...

Stiffness Parameters Identification of Frames
Four widely used methods of structural system identification are presented. A new formula and its derivation, based on the Bayesian estimation theory, is given. Time domain responses of...

Optimal Collection of Data for Parameter Identification
In this paper, the author attempts to study the optimal spacing of measurements for a structural system modelled by a single-degree-of-freedom oscillator so that the variance of one or...

Research Topics in Structural Identification
The authors examined a variety of possible research topics including identification and detection of nonlinearities, model improvement approaches, damage identification, power estimation...

 

 

 

 

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