Evaluation of Crumb Rubber in Asphalt Pavements
The Use of Crumb Rubber Modifier in Asphalt Pavements: A National Research Program
Putting Waste to Work (an Engineer's Obligation to the Environment)
With a limited supply of natural resources and overwhelming amounts of waste material overburdening the country's landfills, engineers are faced with tremendous challenges...
Advancement of Material Handling Technologies for In-Place Asphalt Pavement Recycling
New technologies for asphalt pavement resurfacing are improving dramatically with the advancements being made to related equipment technologies. This paper focuses on the recent developments...
Resource Recovery Facilities for Earth Approaching Comets
Mankind's next large resource location may be off the planet. The facilities required for mining and material processing offer interesting concepts for the development of mankind's first...
Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling on a Future Lunar Base
The paper addresses the waste management problems on Earth as they relate to a future lunar base and suggests measures to prevent these problems from occurring in the base. Offensive action...
Biosphere II - Its Effects on Space Colonization
In the middle of the Arizona desert, a strange sight can be seen. A small world with ecosystems and different climate zones, just like Earth, is enclosed in glass and steel. The 3.15 acre...
Recycled Engineering Applied to the First Lunar Outpost
Once the proposed Lunar Base configurations obtained by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) team have been analyzed, a systems study of the usefulness of the specific...
Taking Trash Out of Hiding
Out of sight, out of mind has been the country's solid waste mind-set. But when the $18 million Phoenix Solid Waste Management Center becomes fully operational in April, visitors...
Shear Design Guidelines for Polyester Concrete Using Recycled Plastic
Previous research on the shear behavior of steel-reinforced polymer concrete (PC) beams has been very limited and no efficient design procedures have been proposed. In all the previous...
Special Considerations in the Design of Connections for Recycled Wood/Plastic Composite Lumber
There is current work in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) to evaluate potential test methods for what they refer to as 'commingled' plastic lumber. This category covers...
Sustainable Development? Begin with Recycled Paper
Recycling Portland Cement Concrete Pavement at the Contractor's Option
This paper summarizes three portland cement concrete airfield pavement recycling projects at the Outagamie County Airport in Appleton, Wisconsin. The specifications for the projects did...
Water Reclamation Potential in Southern California to the Year 2010
This is a summary of plans and projections for future water recycling by Southern California public and private water and sewerage agencies involved in water recycling. The central purpose...
Reusable Water Exhange Modeling
Wastewater return flows of raw water which is reusable, i.e., water which is entirely consumable, can be exchanged for a like amount of water upstream in the river basin. Exchanged water...
What's Science Got To Do With It?: The Use of Public Opinion in Developing Nuclear Waste Policy
Making Sense of a Sensitive Issue
Corrosion Scenario Development for Corrosion Lifetime Prediction of Carbon Steel Used for Geological Disposal Package
A Systems Approach to the Management of a Contaminated Metal Recycle Project
Using Performance Assessment for Radioactive Waste Disposal Decision Making?Implementation of the Methodology into the Third Performance Assessment Iteration of the Greater Confinement Disposal Site
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