Structural Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities
Proceedings of the Second ASCE Specialty Conference on Structural Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 8-10, 1975. Sponsored by the American Society...
American Wooden Bridges
Wooden bridges are inimitably American. Their practicality, individuality, and ruggedness are traditional characteristics associated with our country. This publication catalogues some...
Planning and Design of Tall Buildings
Scope Index
This report, Scope Index, was originally part of Joint Committee Report 1 as Schedule 2.1. It is an alphabetical listing of the scope of the various chapters of the Monograph on Tall Buildings....
Difficult Dam Problems�� Marginal Spillway Stability
In l965 the Corps of Engineers began a program of inspection and reevaluation of its older dams to determine if they are satisfactory based on present day standards. The study of the spillway...
Meeting the Earthquake Challenge: California's New Laws
California's recent earthquake laws are breaking new ground in public policy matters. In turn, these changes in law are also having significant impact on the approaches to...
Pipeline Bridge Uses Timber Arches
An arch bridge is utilized for the purpose of providing a river crossing for a water supply pipe. Tidal influence, an unfavorable riverbed situation complicated by estuarial and other...
Interstate Highway System
Eventually to cost nearly $90 billion, the Interstate Highway System will connect all U.S. cities of 50,000 and larger, eventually carry 25% of all highway traffic. The article traces...
How Concerned Should Civil Engineers be with Fire Protection�
During the last five years, there has been increasing concern and interest in fire safety in buildings, especially tall buildings. This has resulted in new federal legislation, a new General...
North Sea Oil-Water Mix
In the North Sea between Britian and Norway, giant structures are rising in one of the world's largest efforts to extract oil and gas offshore. An overview of the problems...
New Method Dewaters Dredged Material, Cuts Lagooning Space
Disposal of the millions of cubic yards of dredged material produced each year in the maintenance of the nation's waterways is becoming a serious problem. Traditional methods...
Civil Engineering History Gives Valuable Lessons
Many students, and others, feel the study of engineering history is a frill. Not so, this article suggests. A study of the past can give an engineer better ideas on how to solve a new...
9000 psi Concrete�� Why? Why not�
High strength concrete is being used in many high-rise apartment and office buildings. In this case, high strength means 9000 psi (62.0 MPa). Quality control, aggregate availability and...
Floating Dry Dock Doubles as Launching Platform
Though usually constructed by shipyards, floating drydocks are civil engineering structures. Dry docks that float have one important advantage over their non-floating relatives�� they...
The Floating Cover: Best Way to Cover a Finished-Water Reservoir�
With the increased attention being given to drinking-water quality in recent years, many states have been pressuring towns and cities to cover their open, finished-water reservoirs. Years...
Short Span Bridges
Short span bridges, seemingly simple and innocuous structures, in fact embody many interesting problems and developments: The need to replace hundreds of thousands of bridges (safety and...
Engineering Education: Can It be More Practical�
U.S. engineering schools were derailed after World War II by some well-meaning educators who decided future engineers should be patterned after physicists and aero-space scientists. Post-war...
News in Bridge Decks
This is the second of two articles on short span bridges. The first, in the July issue, described cost-cutting ideas in design. This article focuses on bridge decks: expansion joints,...
A Fail-Safe Subaqueous Concrete Sewer
Describes the design and installation of a unique, tri-gasketed 87-in. (2210 mm) diameter reinforced concrete sewer force main. The total system is approximately 14,000 ft (4,300 m) long,...
Tackling Major Highway Landslides in the Tennessee Mountains
Interstate 40, running through Tennessee's rugged Smoky Mountains, has been damaged in several places by major landslides. As illustrated by several case histories in this...
Salt Damaged Bridge Decks: Cathodic Helps
Cathodic protection of bridge decks against spalling caused by deicing salts has been demonstrated effective in decks already damaged. Construction of new decks may use other means to...
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