Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century By Benjamin Flowers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures
Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining...

U.S. Implementation of LRFD for Earth Retaining Structures

What's Shaking in Seismic Design of Earth Retaining Structures?

The Importance of Filters in Bridge Scour Countermeasure Design

Erratum for U.S. Implementation of LRFD for Earth Retaining Structures

Evaluation of Hutton TLP Response to Environmental Loads

Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Fully revised and updated, this three-volume set from the Water Environment Federation and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers presents...

Designing for Potential Mine Subsidence at a Disposal Facility in Appalachia

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2008.78

The Evolution of Geotechnical Inputs in Highway Pavement Design

Application of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Pavement Subgrade Design

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World by Andreas Schafer, John B. Hewood, Henry D. Jacoby, and Ian A. Waitz. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009

Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Alexander Missal. New York City: Viking Penguin, 2009.

Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering by David Douglas and Greg Papadopulous, with John Boutelle. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010.

Performance-Based Design Method (PBDM)
This chapter discusses the performance-based design method (PBDM). Topics include performance objectives; recommended analysis methods; modeling guidance; preliminary proportioning; acceptance...

Behavior of Soft Clays under Earthquake Loading Conditions

Static Cone to Compute Static Settlement over Sand
(Originally published in J. Soil Mechanics and Foundations Div, 1970,. 96(3), 1011-1043.)...

Conical Test Load Measuring Compressibility
(Originally published in J. of Geotechnical Engineerin, 1993, 119(5) 965-971.)...

Book Review: New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion by Rich Ling. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

 

 

 

 

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