Abstract: The design of a full‐scale reinforced concrete building is compared to US seismic resistant design practice, and the observed behavior and measured response of the building during a series of simulated earthquake tests is ...

Abstract: The nature and scope of geotechnical engineering are such that the problems and projects we deal with are a never ending source of both challenge and excitement. In most cases we do very well in defining the problems and ...

Abstract: In spite of our present very advanced analytical capabilities, our present ability to predict actual field behavior is, in many cases, woefully inadequate. Four cases are described to illustrate one of the reasons why ...

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Abstract: A 63-station radiosonde network has been used for many years to estimate temperature variations and trends at the surface and in the 850?300-, 300?100-, and 100?50-mb layers of climate zones, both hemispheres, and the ...

Abstract: Based on the 120-station North American radiosonde network, temperature trends for 100?50-mb (low stratosphere), 300?100-mb (tropopause), and 850?300-mb (troposphere) layers, and Earth?s surface, are evaluated for six 10° ...

Abstract: Between June and November of 1970, 26 GHOST-type constant-level balloons were released from Ascension Island (8S) for flight at 30 and 50 mb. The balloons were positioned by the Interrogation, Recording and Location System ...

Abstract: Circulations in the vertical-lateral and vertical-longitudinal planes in an unstable planetary boundary layer are compared through the use of tetroon trajectories. On the average, the circulation in the transverse plane ...