The Deformation Properties of Warm Underocean Permafrost
Two quasi-conventional incremental pressuremeter tests were carried out on man-made specimens of 'warm' ( minus 3 degree C) frozen, saturated sand. Instead of...
Orthophotoquad Mapping Program for Alaska
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) is the lead civilian mapping agency in the United States and is responsible for creating and maintaining numerous map series. In Alaska the standard...
The Prudency Management Audit: A New Challenge for the Civil Engineer
The Nuclear Industry, particularly utilities and their constructor, engineering and vendor agents, is faced with a surging increase in Prudency Management Audits. Such Audits are often...
Abutment Seepage at Smithville Dam
After initial filling there was concern for the stability of Smithville Dam when higher than anticipated piezometric levels were experienced in the left abutment foundation. Concern heightened...
Designing and Monitoring for Seepage at Calamus Dam
Given the complex, pervious nature of the foundation for Calamus Dam, every effort has been made to incorporate design features that will reduce and control the anticipated large volumes...
Site Selection and Building Design for Minimizing Vibration
Over the last five to ten years, line resolutions required for state-of-the-art semi-conductor wafers have dropped to well below 1 micron. As a result, controlling environmental building...
Civil Engineering in the Arctic Offshore
The 123 papers included in this publication describe the present state of practice, consider emerging concepts and requirements, define research and development needs and critique present...
Water Information Available from the U.S. Geological Survey
As a part of the Geological Survey's program of releasing water data to the public, two large-scale computerized systems are maintained. The National Water Data Storage and...
Computers: Water Resources Models in Latin America
Ninety-six national institutions dealing with planning, irrigation, water supply, and hydropower generation in twenty-six Latin American and Caribbean countries were surveyed between February...
Hydraulic Profile Computation Using CADD
The data preparation can also be performed by directly recording onto a computer tape the aerial survey cross section ground points and the field survey work. A computer program can then...
Fate and Transport of Metals in a River System
A steady-state model was developed that describes the fate of metals in a shallow river system. Settling and resuspension of solids were defined through empirical equations relating a...
Measurement of Activated Sludge Rheology
Rheological measurements provide fundamental information on the physical properties of activated sludge. Such properties influence the behavior of activated sludge in wastewater and sludge...
A Survey of Anaerobic Digester Operations
In 1981, the ASCE Task Committee on Anaerobic Digestion conducted a survey of wastewater treatment plants throughout the country regarding the use of anaerobic digestion. The two-part...
Irrigation Scheduling with the Neutron Probe
In 1981, the Imperial Irrigation District in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Reclamation started a demonstration irrigation scheduling program on 15,000 acres (6,075 ha)....
Water Requirements of Mountain Meadow Vegetation
Measurements to define agricultural water consumption have been taken in the Green River Basin of Wyoming throughout the summers of 1983 and 1984. The weekly measurements included water...
Interagency Coordination in Louisiana's Coastal Zone
The vast, diverse, and fragile coastal wetlands of Louisiana face continual problems, including flooding, shoreline erosion, land loss, destruction by hurricanes, channel dredging, dredge...
The Use of Thematic Mapper Data for the Identification and Analysis of Small Island Land Covers: The Case of Block Island
This paper describes the classification (unsupervised) of a portion of the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) scene covering Block Island, Rhode Island and surrounding waters. The Landsat system...
Managing Shoreline Changes in the Presence of Nearshore Shoal Migration and Attachment
The purpose of this paper is to describe these events in detail and illustrate the need for better understanding of erosion/deposition patterns around tidal inlets. Periodic beach surveys...
Marine Geological Studies on the Coastal Zone of Kerala
The largest of the estuaries in Kerala, the Vembanad lake formed by the backwater, has been investigated in detail with reference to bathymetry, sediments and geochemistry. A considerable...
The Review of the Comprehensive Survey of the Coastal Zone of China
The purpose of the survey is to provide basic data for coastal zone development of China. The scope of survey is a long narrow belt area alongshore. The contents of the survey include...
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