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Tiebacks for Bulkheads
Tiebacks were once used primarily to support temporary structures such as supported excavations. However, the use of tiebacks has been gradually expanded to include the support of permanent...

Effectiveness of Highway Safety Improvements
This book contains the thirty papers presented at the third Highway Safety Specialty Conference sponsored by the Committee on Traffic and Safety of the Highway Division of the American...

Planning Engineering and Construction Projects
Planning is a recognized element in the success of engineering and construction projects. Two activities at the level of the firm?manpower planning and business planning?also play a major...

Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
The importance of expert systems, also referred to as knowledge based expert systems, has been growing in all areas of civil engineering practice. The papers in this book were presented...

Construction Innovation
Demands, Successes and Lessons
Increasing complexity of the constructed product, greater demands for construction cost effectiveness, and foreign competition demand increased innovation in construction. The papers in...

In-House Training Programs
The papers in this book address timely subjects and issues on in-house training programs that are of particular interest to the civil engineering profession. The five papers presented...

Salvaging the Zilwaukee
In 1982, construction of the Zilwaukee Bridge in Michigan was disrupted when the launching truss failed to hold a precast concrete segment near Pier 11N, severely deflecting the cantilever...

Asphalt Pavement Modifiers
Modifiers or additives to asphalt concrete pavements are being researched or marketed by many major chemical firms. Modifiers or additives are used to stiffen the asphalt in hot weather...

Superminis for Super CAD
Many second time users of computer-aided design software and hardware, in their efforts to have more power and flexibility, are switching to superminicomputers and building their own systems....

Plugging into a Dam
Instruments are embedded into hundreds to dams around the world. But for instrumentation to be effective, the instruments must be read, and the data must be plotted and compared to predicted...

Bridge Management: Computer Aided Priorities
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has invested $3.6 million in developing the concept and software for a Bridge Management System that will help determine the needs...

CAD Goes into Analysis
In the past, computer analysis of a design was always a separate and distinct step from CAD. Now, an increasing number of systems are combining the two. One system, SSCAD, allows the engineer...

Expert Systems Enter the Marketplace
Civil engineering expert systems (computer programs that incorporate some of the decision-making capabilities of the top experts in a given subdiscipline) are beginning to come on the...

Building with Software
Project management has become a more precise art now that computers are on the construction scene. Scotsman Mfg. Corp. computerized its manual CPM techniques for erecting modular structures,...

Terzaghi Lectures
1974-1982
Sponsored by the Executive Committee of the Geotechnical Engineering Division of ASCE. This Geotechnical Special Publication contains eight lectures...

The Use of Cone Penetrometer Testing to Investigate Sand Fill Subsidence Beneath Highways
During construction of Interstate I-10 between Baton Rouge and LaPlace, Louisiana, highly organic swamp deposits were excavated and replaced with hydraulically pumped river sand. The main...

Designing for Maintainability
Inspection and maintenance guidelines are unavailable for many buildings. Building owners seldom have the benefit of such information because buildings are often considered passive systems,...

Construction by Computer
Olympia & York, the developers of the 8 million sq ft World Financial Center in lower Manhattan are using a computerized scheduling system to keep the flow of materials into the...

Aerated Static Pile Composting of Wastewater Sludge: A Field Study in Longmont, Colorado
This is a report of experimental work at the Longmont wastewater plant at Colorado, on aerated static pile composting of wastewater sludge. 61% of the sludge mass used in compost piles...

Comprehensive Odor Control Programat East Bay Municipal Utility District (SD-1)
An odor control study was performed in a wastewater treatment plant in California to evaluate the interactive role of various factors tailored to site specific conditions. The scope of...

 

 

 

 

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