Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill for Embankments and Retaining Walls
Use of tire shreds in three highway projects is described. In the first project, tire shreds were used as a compressible inclusion to reduce pressures on a rigid frame bridge. Earth pressures...

Role of Constituents on the Behavior of Flowable Fly Ash Fill
Flowable fills are increasingly used as backfill materials for pipes and retaining structures because of ease of placement and performance of the solidified material. But the role of its...

The Safe Disposal of Fly Ash in Pavement or Earth Structures Not Requiring High Strength Materials
Highway agencies throughout the country face the challenge of safe disposal of various waste products in pavements and earth structures. Some of these waste products can be hazardous to...

Design of a Soil Mixed Composite Gravity Wall

Design and Construction of a Deep Soil Mix Retaining Wall for the Lake Parkway Freeway Extension

Monitoring the Performance of a Soil Nailed Wall

The Covered Bridges of Southwestern New Hampshire

Undersea Shield Tunnels of Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway

The Large-Scale Excavation in Tokyo for the Construction of the Namboku Subway Line

Geotechnical Challenges Faced on Line 2 of the Greater Cairo Metro System

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III
This proceedings, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III, contains 116 papers presented at the 1998 Specialty Conference...

Transportation Planning and Air Quality III
Emerging Strategies and Working Solutions
This proceedings, Transportation Planning and Air Quality III, consists of papers presented at the conference held in Lake Tahoe, California,...

Application of Geotechnical Principles in Pavement Engineering
This proceedings, Application of Geotechnical Principles in Pavement Engineering, contains a compendium of five papers demonstrating a variety...

Computing in Civil Engineering
This proceedings, Computing in Civil Engineering, consists of papers and extended abstracts presented at the International Computing Congress,...

Shake, Rattle and Hold (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue Only)
In-situ lateral load tests of two bridge bents were conducted on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to determine the strength and ductility of an existing concrete bridge and the improvements...

Tornado Aftermath: Questioning the Tools (Available Structural Engineering Special Issue Only)
In May 1997, several tornadoes hit central Texas. The strongest of these killed 27 people and destroyed about 40 single-family houses on the outskirts of Jarrell, north of Austin. A post-storm...

Building Between Buildings (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue Only)
Construction of tall buildings in the centers of the world's large cities almost invariably involves working within severe site constraints. The constraints can involve all...

Wood Structures Tour

New Directions in Wood Engineering

Research on Wood Engineering: An International Perspective

 

 

 

 

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