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RISSan Jacinto Monument: New Soil Data and Analysis Including Subsidence
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The San Jacinto Monument was built in 1936 to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the battlefield victory that gave Texas its freedom. Ray Dawson was in charge of the foundation design and decided to instrument the ...
Modeling Rate Effects and Cyclic Loads With the Pressuremeter
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: A relatively new tool, the cone pressuremeter (CPMT), was used in order to evaluate its usefulness in predicting the effects on soil due to various rates of loading and to repetitive loading. ...
SRICOS-EFA Method for Complex Piers in Fine-Grained Soils
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The SRICOS-EFA method was developed by Briaud, Chen, and their students starting in the early 1990s to predict the scour depth versus time curve for a cylindrical pier in deep water subjected to a multiflood hydrograph and ...
Full-Scale Impact Test of Four Traffic Barriers on Top of an Instrumented MSE Wall
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper presents the results of four full-scale impact tests against barriers placed on top of an instrumented mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall. The impact was created by a head-on collision of a 2,268-kg bogie ...
Design Guidelines and Full-Scale Verification for MSE Walls with Traffic Barriers
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Millions of square meters of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining walls are constructed annually in the United States. For highway applications, a roadside barrier system is placed at the edge of the wall. This ...
Levee Erosion by Overtopping in New Orleans during the Katrina Hurricane
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Erodibility of a soil is defined here as the relationship between the erosion rate of a soil
Multiflood and Multilayer Method for Scour Rate Prediction at Bridge Piers
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The SRICOS method was proposed in 1999 to predict the scour depth versus time curve at a cylindrical bridge pier for a constant velocity flow, a uniform soil, and a deep-water condition. In this article, the method is ...
SRICOS-EFA Method for Contraction Scour in Fine-Grained Soils
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Scour at bridges is the number-one cause of bridge collapse in the United States. Much research has been performed to improve the prediction of scour depths in coarse-grained soils, but little has been done for fine-grained ...
Erosion Function Apparatus for Scour Rate Predictions
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Scour is the number one cause of bridge failures. Scour in coarse grained soils (sand, gravel) is relatively well known, but scour in fine grained soils (silt, clay) and weak rock is not. In coarse grained soils, scour ...
New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. I: Introduction, Overview, and the East Flank
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The failure of the New Orleans regional flood protection systems, and the resultant catastrophic flooding of much of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, represents the most costly failure of an engineered system in U.S. ...