Abstract: This paper analyzes the delivery of assistance for displaced people after Hurricane Katrina. Assistance can be understood as part of social welfare assistance in the United States. It is part of the social welfare apparatus ...

Abstract: Proper waste management is essential to protect human health, ecosystems, and economic prosperity. Between 2001 and 2003, the St. Louis Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers evaluated the environmental ...

Abstract: Ensuring the resiliency of a nation’s transportation infrastructure network requires a skilled and dependable workforce; this relies heavily on a transportation agency’s ability to recruit and retain their employees. Public ...

Abstract: Highway project delivery is a disruption-prone process in which resilience is essential to project success, because different project stages experience disruptions and struggle to reach desired project outcomes. A process ...

Abstract: The feasibility of using landfill gas (LFG) for electricity generation at four St. Louis, Mo., area landfills was explored using the U.S. EPA's E-PLUS (Energy Project Landfill Gas Utilization Software). The estimated ...

Abstract: A theory of plasticity for frictional materials is developed in which first and third invariants of stress and strain are used instead of the more conventional second invariants. The usual concepts of strain‐hardening ...

Abstract: Project delivery is often subject to uncertainties and disruptions throughout the entire process. The ability of project delivery to resist and recover from disruptions is a measure of the resilience of the process, which ...

Abstract: Building energy retrofits aim to reduce the energy consumption of existing facilities. The most significant impact of any energy retrofit project is during the operation phase of a building, when a building’s users are ...

Abstract: A quantitative dynamic solder wettability measurement technique was utilized to evaluate the effects of reflow processing on the wettability parameters associated with solder ball alloys. This ...