Results of the 1989 ASCE Airfield Pavement Survey
In November of 1989, the American Society of Civil Engineers Airfield Pavement Committee sent out questionnaires to airfield pavement engineers across the country to assess the most recent...
Historic Dam Rehab: Handle with Care
A growing number of dams across the U.S. are aging and in need of rehabilitation, but can they be brought up to current codes without compromising their historic integrity? Improved methods...
Right-of-Way Surveying
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Analyzing Risk
Engineers designing major projects must often grapple with large areas of uncertainty�from estimating the seismic hazard to a nuclear powerplant to the potential effects of decades of...
ASCE Salary Survey 1991
The 21st biennial ASCE salary survey of the engineering profession conducted by the ASCE Committee on Employment Conditions during the first half of 1991 is presented. It consists of an...
Analysis of Earthquake Response at a Site With Uncertain Properties
The problem of earthquake response of a soil deposit with uncertain properties is studied in the paper. Various analysis procedures for handling the dynamic response of an uncertain system...
Probabilistic Traffic Load Models and Extreme Loads on a Bridge
This paper contains a summary of the intensive traffic measurements collected in France and Europe, and of the probabilistic distributions adopted for the main parameters. The evaluation...
High Wiring Act
Prendergast describes a project to construct a 345 kV transmission line over 313 mi in southwestern New Mexico, in which, due to environmental considerations and limited access, extensive...
A Doubling Design: Rochester's Expanding Airport
Few projects offer greater design challenges or pose more critical construction complexities than a new air passenger terminal, especially when that new terminal must be built on land...
Monitoring Vibration
Vibration monitoring for construction projects is increasing rapidly. Instrumentation for measuring structural response to blasting began in the mining industry with research by the U.S....
Comprehensive Leak Detection Survey and Benefit/Cost Analysis
Fort Carson, Colorado was the site of a comprehensive leak detection investigation of the potable water system with the express purpose of quantifying the benefits to be derived by a military...
Less Bang for the Buck
Blasting rock is practical on job sites with ample space, but on construction sites in urbans or developed settings, contractors are shying away from blasting for several reasons. Noise...
Exploratory Shaft Facility
This paper is an overview of engineering and concept development for the Exploratory Shaft Facility (ESF) of the Yucca Mountain Project. The paper presents a general description of the...
Role of Underground Testing to Determine Suitability of Yucca Mountain as a Potential Repository Site
A brief description of the Exploratory Shaft based site characterization testing program for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Yucca Mountain Project of the permanent disposal...
Synthesis of Studies for the Potential of Fault Rupture at the Proposed Surface Facilities, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Published data for the Midway Valley area, the proposed site of the surface facilities of a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, suggest that recognized regional faults...
One-Dimensional Radionuclide Transport Under Time-Varying Conditions
New analytical and numerical solutions are presented for one-dimensional radionuclide transport under time-varying fluid-flow conditions including radioactive decay. The analytical solution...
Simulation of Radionuclide Retardation at Yucca Mountain Using a Stochastic Mineralogical/Geochemical Model
This paper presents preliminary transport calculations for radionuclide movement at Yucca Mountain using preliminary data for retardation parameter distributions based on mineral distributions....
Development of Transportation Operations Requirements: Operations Planning
Transport conditions at various utility sites vary dramatically in terms of characteristics at and near the site, requirements, administrative procedures, and other factors. Continuation...
Development of Rail Access to the Yucca Mountain Site: Technical and Publc Issues
The Yucca Mountain site, located on the southwestern edge of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is an undeveloped area under investigation as a potential site for high-level nuclear waste (HLW)...
PAGIS & PACOMA: Performance Evaluations of Deep Geological Disposal. Results and Conclusions
Two coordinated research projects were undertaken by the Commission of the European Communities to study the safety performances of geological radwaste disposal systems in the post-operational...
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