Abstract: Infrastructure-construction quality could be better assured by imposing more responsibility for quality process control on contractors, and by having owners place more effort on specifying clear inspection procedures and ...

Abstract: An acceptance-sampling method plays an important role in designing quality-assurance (QA) specifications. It applies statistics to specify the requirements of (1) how many measurements are needed; and (2) how to make an ...

Abstract: Objective selection and tradeoffs have always been key central issues in rainfall-runoff models. In general, precision for high and low flows cannot be achieved or considered concurrently. Combination forecasts are potentially ...

Abstract: Most construction projects involve earthmoving operations. Careful management of trucks to perform these operations is considered crucial by earthwork contractors in Taiwan. A mechanism is described that optimizes the ...