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Planning of a Secondary Road Network for Low-Speed Vehicles in Small or Medium-Sized City: Using Google Earth

Jannat, Mafruhatul; Hunter-Zaworski, Katharine M. (Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2012)

In response to the growing environmental concern, the use of low speed vehicles (LSVs) on public roadways is gradually increasing in recent years as a short-range alternative to fossil-fueled autos. Primarily designed fo ...
A procedure for rapid visual screening for seismic safety of wood-frame dwellings with plan irregularity

Lucksiri, Kraisorn; Miller, Thomas H.; Gupta, Rakesh; Pei, Shiling; van de Lindt, John W. (Elsevier, 2012-03)

This paper highlights the development of a rapid visual screening (RVS) tool to quickly identify, inventory, and rank residential buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous, focusing on single-family, wood-fram ...
Professional Decisions: Responsibilities

Elms, David G.; Brown, Colin B. (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

The responsibilities which civil engineers, and particularly the engineer of record, accept are considered. The interaction with other decision makers such as the owner, stakeholders, the law and contractors results in c ...
Professional Decisions: The Central Role of Models

Elms, David G.; Brown, Colin B. (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

Engineering is largely concerned with models and modelling. Models provide a context in which decisions are made. Here the modelling process is considered in a general sense and then the relationship with engineering mod ...
Spatial identification and optimization of upland wetlands in agricultural watersheds

Babbar-Sebens, Meghna; Barr, Robert C.; Tedesco, Lenore P.; Anderson, Milo (Elsevier, 2013-01-24)

Wetland ecosystems are considered as potential ecological solutions for increasing the capacity of watersheds to store runoff waters upstream, and thereby, decrease risk of downstream flooding. Especially in tile-drain ...
Successive earthquake-tsunami analysis to develop collapse fragilities

Park, Sangki; van de Lindt, John W.; Cox, Daniel; Gupta, Rakesh; Aguiniga, Francisco (Taylor & Francis, 2012-07-18)

Over the last half-century, scientists and engineers have developed methods to better understand and mitigate the damage caused by tsunamis. According to U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P646, buildings in ...
A Systems Approach to Civil Engineering Decisions

Rodriguez-Nikl, Tonatiuh; Brown, Colin B. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012-10)

While contemporary civil engineering projects are increasingly complex, the cognitive abilities of the decision maker remain limited. There is a conflict between the complexity that is required to describe a scenario wit ...
TopCAT – Topographical Compartment Analysis Tool to analyze seacliff and beach change in GIS

Olsen, Michael J.; Young, Adam P.; Ashford, Scott A. (Elsevier, 2012-08)

This paper discusses the development of a new GIS extension named the Topographic Compartment Analysis Tool (TopCAT), which compares sequential digital elevation models (DEMs) and provides a quantitative and statistical ...
Unified Approach for LRFD Live Load Moments in Bridge Decks

Higgins, Christopher; Turan, O. Tugrul; Connor, Robert J.; Liu, Judy (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011-11)

Current AASHTO-LRFD specifications use many disparate design provisions to establish live load demands in bridge decks. As an example, approximately 17% of Chapter 4 addresses the analysis of decks. One of the AASHTO-LRF ...