Inverted Filter Stabilizes Soil, Stops Erosion
The inverted filter concept was invented by Karl Terzaghi to prevent dams from failing by water piping through the foundation. Laboratory and field testing have refined the necessary specifications...
Gabions, Perforated Pipe and Gravel Serve as Fish Screens
A type of structure to prevent juvenile salmon from diverting to irrigation ditches has been developed on the Merced River in central California. It was built after cost considerations...
Austin's 11-Mile Sewer Tunnel Reflects Sound Economic, Environmental Alternatives
An 11-mile long $20,000,000 concrete-lined continuous tunnel has just been completed across the City of Austin to serve as a sanitary sewer. Most of the tunnel is more than 100-ft (30.5-m)...
Polyethylene Pipe Solutions to Sewer Outfalls
One of the primary concerns of the Chief of Naval Operations is to insure that environmental pollution standards are met in this country and abroad at those naval bases near oceans or...
Short Span Bridges
Short span bridges, seemingly simple and innocuous structures, in fact embody many interesting problems and developments: The need to replace hundreds of thousands of bridges (safety and...
Discs Reduce Manhole Infiltration
The Department of Public Works for New Castle County, Del., conducted a study of infiltration at their over 30,000 sanitary sewer manholes. The study indicated that up to 60% of their...
A Fail-Safe Subaqueous Concrete Sewer
Describes the design and installation of a unique, tri-gasketed 87-in. (2210 mm) diameter reinforced concrete sewer force main. The total system is approximately 14,000 ft (4,300 m) long,...
Pipeline Design for Water and Wastewater
Structural Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities 1973
Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Structural Design of Nuclear Facilities, held in Chicago, Illinois, December 17-18, 1973. Sponsored by the Nuclear Structures and Materials Committee...
Civil Engineering Classics
Outstanding Papers of Thomas R. Camp
In this volume of
Design and Construction of Sanitary and Storm Sewers
This manual,
A Selected Bibliography on Construction Methods and Plant Applied to Bridges, Buildings, Dams, Hydro-Electric Plants, Roads, Sea-Wall, Sewers, Tunnels, Etc.
While several excellent books are available on various types of construction plant and construction methods, a large part of such information lies buried in individual and fugitive articles...
Definitions of Terms Used in Sewage and Sewage Disposal Practice
After several conferences were held to try to unify sewerage and sewage disposal practice terminology in 1926, there remained considerable differences of opinion. In the fall of 1926,...
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