Abstract: This investigation presents an extensive analysis of precipitation bands associated with winter season ?over-running? events in the southern plains of the United States. The primary motivation is an investigation of the ...

Abstract: The state of the art of sheet pile bulkheads design and investigation is reviewed. Using some examples of relatively recent large scale model tests and full scale investigations it is shown that the Coulomb Theory of earth ...

Abstract: The state‐of‐the‐art of pile jetting is reviewed. In general, jetting is a very effective time‐saving method of pile driving. It can be effectively utilized for the driving of both vertical and batter piles. It is almost ...

Abstract: This paper presents a brief chronology of the events that preceded the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel, including the prior failure that occurred during construction and the evolution of the ...

Abstract: Biases in mean temperatures due to differing times of daily maximum and minimum temperature observation cause problems in evaluation of temporal and spatial anomalies in temperature and derived degree day values. These ...

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the historical underpinnings of the design-construction industry and the development of design engineering and construction engineering as independent but related subdisciplines ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of the oceanic (atmospheric) boundary layer are complicated by the need to specify appropriate ?outflow? or ?radiation? boundary conditions at the artificial lower (upper) boundary of the computational ...

Abstract: Concentrated organic chemicals have been shown to cause large increases in the hydraulic conductivity of compacted clay. Mechanical and chemical methods of stabilizing four different types of compacted clay against chemical ...