Abstract: At the October 1985 Board of Direction meeting in Detroit the report prepared by the ASCE Task Committee on Design Responsibility was adopted as official ASCE policy. The report recommended that (1) The Engineer of Record ...

Abstract: The National Rivers Authority (NRA) employs 8,000 people and anticipates spending £2 billion over the next four years protecting and improving the water environment in England and Wales. During this time the NRA will ...

Abstract: In February 1996 the Tennessee Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the U.S. Navy, and various steel plate manufacturers, agreed to ...

Abstract: The use of linear statistical methods in building climate prediction models is examined, particularly the use of anomalies. The author?s perspective is that the climate system is a nonlinear interacting system, so the ...

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Abstract: The most fundamental, and perhaps most important, task in the tolerance analysis of assemblies is to test whether or not the components with tolerances are actually able to fit together (called ...

Abstract: In this paper, we describe a new modeling approach to tackle the challenging problem of in-flight icing prediction. In this approach, termed morphogenetic modeling, we predict the structural details of aircraft ice accretion ...