Economics of Preventive Highway Maintenance
The preventive maintenance concept for asphaltic highway surface care is intended to give all areas of the Kansas Department of Transportation the necessary procedures for such work. The...
Plastic Tower Solves Radar Interference
A new nonmetallic tower section has been designed to eliminate major rador interference problems caused by a steel Radar Microwave Link tower. The replacement section is composed of a...
Engineers Joint Council Takes Stock, Changes Structure of Governing Board
Engineers Joint Council, an umbrella group over many engineering societies including ASCE, evolved over the years so that its Board no longer consisted primarily of engineering-society...
Experts Critique the Olympic Structures of Montreal
At a panel discussion held recently in Montreal, a number of prominent architects and engineers critiqued the Montreal Olympic structures. Unlike some previous press reports, the blame...
Industrial, Municipal Wastes Combined
The design of the facility in South Paris, Maine, is based on a modified secondary activated sludge treatment process. Because of the quality of the specific industrial wastes being treated,...
Structural Analysis and Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities
Draft Trial Use and Comment
This Manual of Engineering Practice in
Structural Analysis and Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities
Draft Trial Use and Comment (Supplement)
Methods of Structural Analysis
Proceedings of the National Structural Engineering Conference, Methods of Structural Analysis, an ASCE Structural Division Specialty Conference held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,...
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geo-mechanics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, June, 1976....
Structural Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities
Proceedings of the Second ASCE Specialty Conference on Structural Design of Nuclear Plant Facilities, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 8-10, 1975. Sponsored by the American Society...
American Wooden Bridges
Wooden bridges are inimitably American. Their practicality, individuality, and ruggedness are traditional characteristics associated with our country. This publication catalogues some...
Minorities in the Engineering and Scientific Profession
This publication consists of papers presented to the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, August 14, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. Topics of papers include creating pipelines:...
Planning and Design of Tall Buildings
Scope Index
This report, Scope Index, was originally part of Joint Committee Report 1 as Schedule 2.1. It is an alphabetical listing of the scope of the various chapters of the Monograph on Tall Buildings....
Difficult Dam Problems�� Marginal Spillway Stability
In l965 the Corps of Engineers began a program of inspection and reevaluation of its older dams to determine if they are satisfactory based on present day standards. The study of the spillway...
Los Angeles Pioneers Separate Busway
The San Bernardino Freeway Express Busway, a joint project of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and California Department of Transportation, is the nation's first...
Meeting the Earthquake Challenge: California's New Laws
California's recent earthquake laws are breaking new ground in public policy matters. In turn, these changes in law are also having significant impact on the approaches to...
Recycling Allows Zero Wastewater Discharge
St. Petersburg, Florida, committed itself to total recycling of its wastewater with zero discharge to its surrounding bays. They plan to accomplish that goal through land disposal techniques....
Russia Redistributes River Flow
Large interbasin water-transfers are underway with several more scheduled in the Soviet Union, changing the direction of natural river flow. The overall plan is to expand agricultural...
Interstate Highway System
Eventually to cost nearly $90 billion, the Interstate Highway System will connect all U.S. cities of 50,000 and larger, eventually carry 25% of all highway traffic. The article traces...
Designing for the Disadvantaged: Optimum Design Considers All Users
Design practices in recent engineering projects show that consideration for the full human utility of building and transportation systems is receiving increasing attention. Previously,...
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