Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors Tidal Circulation Study
Expansion of harbor facilities frequently involves placement of additional landfill and the deepening of channels and mooring areas. A numerical tidal circulation model was used in the...
Lifeline Seismic Risk Analysis?Case Studies
These papers employ design concepts and procedures in lifeline seismic risk analysis. Two of the papers describe the seismic hazards in the northwestern United States. A systems model...
Geotechnical Aspects of Stiff and Hard Clays
This publication contains articles that deal with field and laboratory measurements of engineering properties of stiff (overconsolidated) clays, and comparisons of predicted and measured...
Chloramines: A Better Way?
Chlorination of drinking water has been linked to the formation of carcinogenic trihalomethanes (THMs). By adding ammonia to the water, the chlorine becomes chloramines which don't...
Tallying Water Resources Goals
Federal water resources planning philosophy has undergone a lengthy evolution with a number of refinements in the past decade to encompass environmental laws and the political philosophy...
Treating Sewage in One Tank
A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was the answer to a sewage problem that was holding up community development in Poolesville, MD. Poolesville was one of the first municipalities in the...
Drying Out
Treatment plants are most efficient when they're treating waste, not water. Spurred on by increased fuel prices, a number of new technologies have been developed that can...
Bugs and Carbon Make a PACT
At its Chambers Works in southern New Jersey, DuPont was ordered to sharply reduce the BOD load in the wastewater it discharged to the Delaware River. Out of this mandate came the PACT...
Physics-Based Modeling of Lakes, Reservoirs, and Impoundments
This book provides an overview of considerations that apply to modeling flow and transport in lakes, reservoirs, and impoundments using equations based on conservation principles. Specific...
Deformation Characteristics of Cohesionless Soils from In Situ Tests
This paper is a summary of seven years experience gained by the National Electricity Board of Italy (ENEL), ISMES and Technological University of Turin in assessing these parameters using...
Ground Improvement Evaluation by In-Situ Tests
The application of in-situ testing to the design and evaluation of a large sand densification project for the Jebba Hydroelectric Development is described. Correlation between the standard...
Electrical In Situ Measurements for Predicting Behavior of Soils
A new method is presented for predicting the in situ stress-strain behavior of fine grained soils based upon in situ measurements of its electrical properties. The method involves the...
Residual Soil Settlement From Pressuremeter Moduli
The Menard pressuremeter test is briefly described, and practical drilling techniques are summarized for Piedmont residual soils. Applications and limitations of the pressuremeter are...
Liquefaction Study of Coal Refuse by Nuclear Gauges
This paper presents a technique for utilizing nuclear gauges to determine density and moisture content continuously throughout refuse embankments and slurry reservoirs. The nuclear measurements...
Landslide Investigation Utilizing Electric Cone Penetration Testing
A geotechnical investigation was conducted of landsliding at a hillside residential property to evaluate both the extent of the landslide and the stability of the fill materials as well...
Dilatometer Tests in Sand
The paper presents two applications of the dilatometer test in sands: control of compaction and determination of constrained modulus. Twelve dilatometer tests were carried out before and...
Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Cone Penetrometers
Cone penetrometers from 8 organizations have been studied by performing laboratory tests and field tests. The testing show that pore pressure and temperature zero shift affect significantly...
In Situ Tests with Ko Stepped Blade
The results of field tests conducted using the K//o Stepped Blade to determine lateral stresses and other geotechnical properties are presented. The sites tested represent a wide range...
Pore Pressure Effects in Borehole Shear Testing
The effects of excess pore pressures on shear strength results obtained using the Borehole Shear Test (BST) were investigated. Pore pressures were measured during the consolidation, shear,...
Site Characterization Using the Cone Penetrometer Test
The Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) when used in conjunction with a limited soil boring program can provide a more detailed and economical site characterization. This paper addresses how...
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