Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the causes of distress to the foundation of a residential building, and to discuss the remedial options. The northeast corner of the building had settled excessively. Many cracks ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the cause of distress to the foundation and slab of an old post office building, and to discuss several remedial options. The subsurface investigation program revealed a relatively ...

Abstract: The cyclic behavior of stratified silty sandy soils is at present poorly understood, yet these materials are commonly found in alluvial deposits and hydraulic fill, which have a history of liquefaction during earthquakes. ...

Abstract: A new method for calculation of frequency-equivalent storms and hydrographs is presented. This procedure is an extension of the frequency-equivalent nonlinear hydrograph (FENLH) methodology. Streamflow data records for a ...

Abstract: Dynamic properties of three compacted cohesive soils, kaolinite, sodium montmorillonite, and calcium montmorillonite, which were treated with up to 8% lime, were determined under a wide range of strains and confining ...

Abstract: Little is known about the behavior of soil when subjected to random loading. A testing program was undertaken in which dry sand at different confining pressures was tested in a resonant column device using random torsional ...

Abstract: Significant progress has been achieved in the active control of civil-engineering structures, not only in the control algorithm, but also in the control testing of the scale model and full-scale building. At the present ...

Abstract: The identification and modeling of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems through the use of measured experimental data is a problem of considerable importance in engineering. Among the identification methods, the artificial ...