Functional Highway Design
In the past, the common highway design development process used by government agencies has often failed to incorporate the lessons learned from operational experience and research. However,...
Northridge Postscript: Lesson on Steel Connections
Immediately after the Northridge earthquake in January 1994, the general concensus was that steel-framed buildings performed extremely well. Later, inspectors were surprised to find weld...
Restructuring
America and Beyond
This proceedings,
Wood Working
Engineers may be more accustomed to working with concrete and steel, but for certain projects aesthetics, cost or other considerations may make wood the preferred choice. According to...
San Francisco CSO
Today, even a light rain can overload San Francisco's combined sewer overflow (CSO) system, sending untreated sewage and stormwater into the bay and ocean. This is especially...
Wave Forces on Inclined and Vertical Wall Structures
This monograph,
Impact-Echo Strikes Home
Diagnosing flaws without destroying the structure is the first step to cost-effective repairs. Impact-echo is one of the more successful nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods that have...
Engineering Mechanics
This proceedings,
Shotcrete for Underground Support VII
This proceedings consists of papers presented at the Shotcrete for Underground Support VII Conference held in Telfs, Austria, June 11-15, 1995. It covers three broad themes concerning...
Bridge Design: Reality Bites Back
Many bridge engineers tend to ignore the process nature of reality, the fact that everything in this universe changes from moment to moment. When they are given the responsibility for...
More Parking Above
Vertical expansion of six (6) new floors of parking garage on top of four (4) floors of existing structure that was built over three decades ago, adding 155,000 square foot of new structure....
Demolishing NAPLs
Dynamic Underground Stripping is a combination of
Rock Steady
Heavily damaged during the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oakland City Hall had to be repaired and retrofitted. Now Oakland boasts the tallest seismically isolated building in the world. The...
Water Resources Engineering
These proceedings,
Lessons from Nonfailures
Two case histories are described in which building owners were told during rehabilitation projects that their structures were in serious trouble. In one case, the engineer told the owner...
Case Histories of the Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Rubble Mound Structures
This proceedings,
Earthquake Design and Performance of Solid Waste Landfills
This proceedings contains invited and contributed papers for the technical session on
Failures in Civil Engineering
Structural, Foundation and Geoenvironmental Case Studies
This special publication consists of a collection of short descriptions of failures case studies in Civil Engineering. The descriptions cover cases in structural, foundation and geoenvironmental...
Landslides under Static and Dynamic Conditions
Analysis, Monitoring, and Mitigation
It is important to consider both the geotechnical engineering and the engineering geology implications of static and dynamic behavior of landslides. In studying landslides one must consider...
Static and Dynamic Properties of Gravelly Soils
The behavior of gravelly soils has been the focus of much research in recent years. Large-scale penetration and triaxial tests, shear-wave velocity measurements, insitu freezing and sampling,...
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