Evaluation of Design Effectiveness
Design is basically a subjective process, limited by rules of mechanics and physics but oriented toward optimizing certain features determined by a client and reflected in the stated criteria...
The Jet Set
The new maintenance hangar now nearing completion at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has aluminum standing seam roofing. The unusual material was specified because every ounce...
Does Ethical Engineering Practice Affect Creativity?
Creativity is not reserved for artists, scientists and dreamers! Engineers put creativity into practice every day. Creativity combined with our engineering and management skills accomplishes...
Channel Tunnel, Texas Style
Two water supply pipelines under the Houston Ship Channel and Greens Bayou are an example of deep tunneling in soft ground. The navigable waters and the water-bearing silty soils in the...
Building Onto History
In a single design/build/renovation project, an Oklahoma City AE firm acquired new offices, provided new life for an abandoned historic church building and spearheaded redevelopment of...
Bells Under Bells
Chicago's newest office tower is supported on new bells that had to be constructed below existing belled caissons. Existing caisson foundations from a previous structure on...
Specifications for Masonry Structures
Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (ACI 530-88/ASCE 5-88) and Specifications for Masonry Structures (ACI 530.1-88/ASCE 6-88) (ACI 530.1-88/ASCE 6-88)
Copublished with the American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Sons of Martha
Civil Engineering Readings in Modern Literature
A User's Guide to Federal Architect-Engineer Contracts
The
Classic Wood Structures
Wood has been used in a wide range of structural applications. When properly maintained, these structures can have a useful life from 50 years to several centuries. Thirty-seven unusual...
Expert Systems for Civil Engineers
Education
While the technology of expert systems can provide engineers with another approach to the development of computable models for civil engineering problems, it is not clear what a course...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1988
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1988
The 1988 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1988. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering covers the development, processing, evaluation, applications, and performance of construction materials in civil engineering....
Beam-Supported Slabs Subject to Edge Loading
A model is presented which allows a designer to estimate stiffnesses required to provide a given critical buckling load in beam-supported slabs subjected to biaxial edge loading, such...
Microcad: Pushing the Limits
Several engineering projects are covered which illustrate the increasingly complex design applications being accomplished with microcomputer based software. A dam, an apartment complex,...
Future Hydropower Development
Hydropower development and management in an era of uncertainty is the theme of this Waterpower '87 conference and reflects the current mood of the U. S. hydropower development...
Expansion of Three Plants on the Saranac River
The capacity of three cascading hydro power plants, owned and operated by New York State Electric and Gas Corporation on the Saranac River near Plattsburgh, was expanded by a total of...
Selection of Jim Falls Turbine Generators
The selection of the unit configuration for the Northern States Power Company's Jim Falls Hydro Redevelopment Project was based on an extensive evaluation of various turbine...
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