Metrication of Construction?A Message to the American Society of Civil Engineers
The author discusses the reasons for metrication of the U.S. construction industry, describes the Canadian experience in this area, and outlines the necessary steps to alleviate the metrication...
Design of Latticed Steel Transmission Structures
This standard,
Seismic Rehabilitation of Seattle's Pier 69
The Port of Seattle, one of the largest on the west coast of North America, made a strong statement regarding their support for reusing existing structures when a decision was made to...
Pre-Compression of Concrete Breasting Dolphins Solves Construction Problem
A roll-on/roll-off ferry terminal was built in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1989 as part of a marine transportation system to support construction of the sewage treatment facilities proposed...
West Point Temporary Construction Dock
The West Point temporary construction dock is designed to provide construction access for the West Point treatment plant project located in Seattle, Washington. The dock plays a major...
Replacement of a Deteriorated Steel Sheet Pile Bulkhead
This paper presents a life history of a marine steel sheet pile bulkhead, over 35 years old, that has been exposed to a salt water environment with minimal maintenance or repair in the...
Seattle Swings Again
The 1992 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award went to a bridge that the experts said couldn't be built�a concrete segmental box girder swing bridge with twin leaves...
The OCEA Awards of Merit
Submerged rock weirs help tame the Mississippi River, high head pump storage provides power to a community safely and inexpensively, and the world's largest cantilevered hangar...
Building Better Bridges: Concrete Vs. Steel
The authors debate the merits of concrete segmental and steel bridge design and construction based on five criteria: initial and life-cycle costs; structural advantages; durability; construction...
The Role of Nondestructive Testing in Assessing the Infrastructure Crisis
At present the role of nondestructive testing in the evaluation of infrastructure deterioration is an extremely limited one. In the Author's experience this is, in part, due to a reluctance...
Realistic Specifications for Steel Bridge Painting
Specifications play a vital role in a steel bridge painting contract. They not only can ease problems with painting construction, but can also provide a common standard for all parties...
Bridge Deck Distress and Repairs
The primary cause of bridge deck deterioration are cyclic freeze-thaw exposures and reinforcing steel corrosion caused by the extensive use of de-icing salts. However, there are other...
Performance of Epoxy-Coated Steel in Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement
Two sections of interstate highway in central Oklahoma were recently reconstructed. On both projects, northbound lanes were reinforced with epoxy-coated steel and southbound lanes were...
Design and Construction of a Bonded Fiber Concrete Overlay of CRCP (Louisiana, Interstate Route 10, August 1990)
The purpose of this study was the design and construction of a bonded steel fiber reinforced concrete overlay on an existing 8-inch CRC pavement on Interstate 10 south of Baton Rouge,...
Concrete Surface Treatments?A Selection Guide
Concrete deterioration can take many forms. The most common forms of concrete surface deterioration includes delaminations, spalling and scaling. This deterioration is usually caused by...
A Theoretical Approach to Characterize Reinforced Concrete Using Stress Waves
Although advances in nondestructive evaluation of structural concrete have been made, the ultrasonic determination of the placement of steel reinforcement in concrete remains difficult....
Investigation of Concrete at a Middle East Plant
In recent years, reinforced concrete construction in the Middle East has been beset by durability problems. The causes include availability of a limited number of skilled workers, marginal...
Composites Performance in the Infrastructure
Fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) composites have been used in demanding structural applications, mostly for special corrosion resistant construction products, for several decades....
Unidirected Twined-Strand Composites and Their Uses
Twined strand composites are a new class of unidirected continuous-fiber-reinforced composite materials where the orientation of the continuous fibers is a twine of unidirected helically...
Full Scale Tests on Concentrically Loaded Fiber-Reinforced Pultruded Columns
This paper briefly reports on the experimental investigation in connection with the short term behavior of pultruded structural members under concentric loading. In particular, results...
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