A Race Against Time
The coastal hillsides of San Mateo County, California, were quickly developed during the post WWII construction boom. Although the land is prized for its scenic beauty, the underlying...
Evaluation of the SSL MSE PlusTM Retaining Wall System
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF service center. This report describes a HITEC evaluation designed to...
Summary of Evaluation Findings for the Testing of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipating Devices
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Service Center. This report summarizes the results of an evaluation...
Summary of Evaluation Findings for the Testing of Ice Ban
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF Service Center. This report describes a HITEC laboratory and field evaluation...
Putting Polystyrene to Work
Geofoam, the generic name for block or low density cellular plastic foam solids used in geotechnical applications, has low density and good insulation properties, which makes it well suited...
Shadow Tolls
As federal funding sources shrink, private sector involvement becomes more necessary for road projects. Private entities are reluctant to become partners in road projects unless there...
Losing Ground
Unusual engineering approaches, careful studies of earth and water movements, and a multi-organizational project team that worked cooperatively lead to the successful replacement of the...
Scheduled Departure
A busy, growing international airport constructs a new international terminal with upper and lower level access roads and expands its parking garage without interrupting services. The...
Imaging Technologies
Techniques and Applications in Civil Engineering
This proceedings includes the papers submitted to the Second International Conference on Imaging Technologies: Techniques and Applications in Civil Engineering sponsored by the Engineering...
Freeway to the Future
A new network model is emerging introducing a new step between servers and desktops: middleware servers with querying software. The new network architecture, combined with the use of both...
Paradise Crossed
Hawaii's Interstate H-3 project is the winner of the 1998 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. The highway, built to alleviate commuter congestion and to link...
Traffic and Transportation Studies
This proceedings,
Climate Control
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has created its own customized weather information system to improve efficiency in its winter road maintenance operations. Intended...
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...
Cold Regions Impact on Civil Works
This proceedings ,
Pounding the Pavement
As state transportation departments continuously maintain and repair worn roadway surfaces, research engineers in nearly every state are racing to find ways to increase pavement life....
Alaska's Last Link
Alaska's Seward Highway has been upgraded this past year. The last section of the highway dates back to the state's early mining days in the Kenai Peninsula,...
Cementing the Future
One of the most devastating effects of the Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked northern California on Oct. 17, 1989 was the collapse of the elevated Cypress Freeway (Interstate 880) in...
Preliminary Evaluation Findings for Ice Ban
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF Service Center. This report describes results obtained from the field evaluation...
Evaluation Findings of Bondade CU-31 Bonding Solution
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Service Center. The report describes a HITEC evaluation of Bondade...
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