Repair and Strengthening of Old Steel Truss Bridges
During the early 1900's, numerous pin jointed steel bridge trusses were constructed throughout the United States. In the intervening years, these trusses were replaced by...
Evaluation and Prediction of Subsidence
Proceedings of the International Conference on Evaluation and Prediction of Subsidence held at Casino Hotel, Pensacola Beach, Florida, January 1978. Sponsored by the American Society of...
Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability
The purpose of the conference is to present and review the current state of the art of Probabilistic methods and their applications in civil engineering, with emphasis on structural and...
Symposium on Earth Reinforcement
Proceedings of the Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, held at the ASCE Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1978. Sponsored by the Committee on Placement and Improvement...
International Seminar on Probabilistic and Extreme Load Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Probabilistic and Extreme Load Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities, held in San Francisco, California, August 22-24, 1977. Sponsored by the ASCE...
Electronic Computation
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Electronic Computation, held at the Mudd Law Building, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, August 6-8, 1979. Sponsored by the Committee...
Guide to Investigation of Structural Failures
This guide contains a broad range of instructions and suggestions regarding structural failures. Topics include failure causes by project type, failure causes by structural type, failure...
Land Treatment Systems and the Environment
This paper summarizes the results from several experiments using the rapid infiltration, overland flow and slow infiltration modes of land treatment....
The Place of Land Treatment of Wastewater in Today's Society
Land treatment of sewage can be a viable alternative to secondary and/or tertiary in-plant treatment. Depending on local conditions, overland-flow, low-rate, or high-rate systems, or a...
Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
The Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics is the tenth in a series of Specialty Conferences sponsored by the ASCE Geotechnical Division (formerly the Soil Mechanics and...
Structural Design of Tall Concrete and Masonry Buildings
This is the first of the ASCE five-volume series on Tall Buildings. Though the tallest skysrapers are of steel, the majority are of concrete?? nearly 65 percent. The selection, analysis...
Field Control Replaces Design Conservation At World's Largest Underground Powerhouse
The excavation of 16,000,000 yd� of rock at LG-2, part of the La Grande hydropower project in Canada, has been completed. The world's largest underground powerhouse, with...
Epoxies � Miracle Materials Don't Always Give Miracle Results
In civil engineering applications, in the past 15 years epoxies have become widely used and have given excellent performance in floor surfacing, corrosion protection, repair of cracked...
Bypassing Sand at Coastal Inlets
To reduce dredging requirements and to provide calm navigation channels, the U.S. Corps of Engineers often constructs jetties and breakwaters. These structures block sand drifting along...
Foundation Soil Preload Saves $164,000
Soils in the lower Mississippi valley are highly compressible and present a challenge to structural foundation designers. Rather than support power plant structures on piles, one design...
Trench Cave-In: Contractor's Responsibility
The article Can Trench Cave-In Deaths Be Cut� in CIVIL ENGINEERING�ASCE, September 1977, states that the owner's engineer should accept responsibility for the design of temporary...
Major Cause of Earthquake Damage is Ground Failure
Ground failure is one of the most destructive effects of large earthquakes. For example, about 60% of the damage during the 1964 Alaska earthquake was a consequence of ground failure....
Dam Anchored to Foundation to Withstand Floods
Federal Power Commission Order No. 315 required a safety review of Conowingo Dam and Powerhouse by an independent board of consultants. As recommended by this board, a study was made of...
U.K. Tunnelling Costs Halved by Use of Unbolted Concrete Lining Segments
Britain now has more than 25 years experience in the development of precast tunnel linings, for tunnels in clay. These linings are expanded directly against the ground. Under suitable...
Retaining Walls: Taking It From The Top
Since 1958, fully anchored curtain walls have been used increasingly to retain slopes in Brazil where topographic, climatic, and geologic conditions are extremely favorable to landsliding...
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