Abstract: This paper describes the theoretical methodology used in developing an analysis for the response of turbine engine fan blades subjected to soft body (bird) impacts and the computer program that ...

Abstract: Basic microeconomic principles are used to evaluate the widely anticipated shortage of civil engineers. Long‐term trends, demographic projections, and data on numbers of graduates and their starting salaries are considered. ...

Abstract: A timely fable to encourage civil engineers to do what they are supposed to do best—think. The law of supply and demand was in full effect long before Adam Smith wrote so eloquently about the invisible hand of the market. ...

Abstract: This paper presents closed-form expressions for rocking spring stiffnesses and coupling interaction rotational spring stiffnesses for a set of closely spaced footings. Substructuring is used to derive analytically the exact ...

Abstract: The results of full‐scale chemical‐physical treatment of sanitary landfill leachate are analyzed. The plant receives approximately 75,000 L/day from a lined 50 acre landfill. The treatment sequence consists of equalization, ...

Abstract: AbstractTropical storms and flooding can compromise industrial infrastructures and other land-based hazards in ways that contaminate nearby communities. This study uses novel data from the Houston Area Survey to investigate ...