Abstract: Corrosion of underground pipelines is an important issue in the American pipeline industry. In 2002, the estimated annual cost was approximately US$7 billion for the monitoring, replacement, and maintenance of pipelines. ...

Abstract: Shallow slope failures are common in highway embankments in the north Texas region and pose significant maintenance problems for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). As a cost-effective alternative, recycled ...

Abstract: This paper presents a technique to quantify water savings due to implementation of water restrictions by adopting water restriction indexes as a continuous numerical predictor variable in regression analysis. The adopted ...

Abstract: Hurricanes are a way of life in South Florida, where owning a home without windstorm insurance is almost an impossibility. Insurance premiums for windstorm loses are computed through the use of complex mathematical models ...