Research Needs to Resist Terrorist Attacks
The task of protecting facilities against terrorist attacks is very much a new problem for the U. S. civilian sector. Guidance as to what steps need to be taken by a municipality or a...
Suspended Polycarbonate Shield to Defeat Terrorist Threats
The Navy Civil Engineering Laboratory is conducting research on a window concept that offers great potential for overcoming the disadvantages of blast resistant windows. The concept is...
Response Charts for Designing Against Nuclear Overpressures
The single-degree-of-freedom equation of motion for an elastic-plastic system with a nuclear airblast overpressure forcing function is nondimensionalized and solved. Solutions are presented...
Limiting Performance and Design by Reanalysis of Structures for Blast Resistance
Limiting performance is the absolute optimal response of a structure under a specified transient load. Reanalysis methods are computational techniques for analyzing locally modified large-scale...
Drop Test of Dolos Armor Units
Dolosse are concrete armor units used for the cover layer on many breakwaters and jetties. In order to study their complex loads and structural response, a prototype study at Crescent...
Wind-Induced Response of a Tall Building and Comparisons With Wind Tunnel Predictions
This paper describes the measured wind-induced response of a tall office tower and comparisons made with wind tunnel studies of the building. The use of an innovative structural system...
Cumulative Damage of Structures
Structural response records may be analyzed to estimate relative motions of civil engineering structures. Several methods are available for the estimation of cumulative damage on the basis...
Base Isolation for Reinforced Concrete Structures
A recent experimental program has been carried out at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center in which a 1/5th scale reinforced concrete structural...
Coastal Hydrodynamics
This book includes papers presented at the ASCE Specialty Conference on Coastal Hydrodynamics Conference, at the University of Delaware, June 28-July 1, 1987. The papers review the state...
Dynamics of Structures
This volume includes the papers presented at the 6th Structures Congress of ASCE which deal with the analysis, design, and behavior of civil engineering structures and facilities subjected...
Selected Papers from the Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering ?1985
This book contains English translations of 19 articles selected from the Chinese
Finite Element Idealization for Linear Elastic, Static, and Dynamic Analysis of Structures in Engineering Practice
This report by the Finite Element Idealization Task Committee is a comprehensive aid for modeling structures for finite element analysis. The first part covers static analysis. Aspects...
The Design, Analysis and Manufacturing of Pickwick Landing Replacement Runners
This paper presents new computer automated techniques for the design, analysis and manufacture of Kaplan turbine blades. The inlet flow field was determined using the finite element program...
Advance Prediction of Flow-Induced Variations
Frequency analysis of hydraulic vibrations has been applied using a transfer matrix and impedance method. The computer program is given for the self-excited and forced vibrations, together...
Dynamic Analysis of Existing Tarbela Intake Towers
According to general practice at the time of the design, the pseudostatic method of applying earthquake loading was used. The basic acceleration was 0. 1g. A post-construction seismological...
F.E.M. Analysis of Mobile Arctic Caisson Island With Stochastic Material Properties
The paper examines how soil uncertainty influences the short term settlements and stresses of the Mobile Arctic Caisson on the original sea bed. Utilizing a two-dimensional plane strain...
Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Armor Units Subject to Wave Impact
Concrete armor units are commonly employed for the protection of shorelines and rubble structures. Their design is primarily based on hydrodynamic stability. However, their structural...
Broke2: A Program for Broken Wire Analysis
A computer program to study the dynamic behavior of an electric transmission line system when wires suddenly break has been developed by the authors. All three of the line elements: the...
Dynamics of Machine Foundation
The art of designing machine foundations, supporting vibratory load has changed from the approximate rule-of-thumb to the scientifically sound engineering procedure. However, the vast...
Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction by the Boundary Element Method: A Comparison Study
A comparison study of three Boundary Element Method approaches is attempted on the basis of a typical three-dimensional, dynamic soil-structure interaction problem. The vertical transient...
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