Abstract: Although accounts of tornadoes occurred in ancient writings, few paid much attention to nature?s most violent windstorm until the United States Army Signal Corps?s John Park Finley began writing about tornadoes in the ...

Abstract: An elastic finite strip method of analysis is used to study the linear local buckling or bifurcation and the nonlinear post‐local buckling behavior of isolated trough girders in bending. The method assumes a constant stress ...

Abstract: The results of an inelastic finite element distortional buckling study of a hot-rolled I-beam used in a composite girder are given. The study shows that the relationship between slenderness and strength for distortional ...

Abstract: Limit states steel design was first introduced into Australia late in 1990 with the release of the AS4100 steel structures standard. This represented a significant departure from contemporary design procedures in place at ...

Abstract: This study was conducted on current practicing construction industry employees who were volunteer students in the Mechanical Contractors Association of America's Institute for Project Management's Managing for Profit ...

Abstract: In moving toward a water balance approach to storm water management and the modeling tools that can support such an approach, it is clear that there are substantial gaps in our knowledge of the groundwater recharge and ...

Abstract: A new numerical model based on the incompressible, nonhydrostatic Navier-Stokes equations for free surface flow is developed. The equations are transformed vertically to the