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Seismic Design Criteria for Structures, Systems, and Components in Nuclear Facilities provides stringent design criteria for nuclear facilities. Because of the potential risk associated with nuclear hazards, nuclear facilities should have a lower probability than conventional facilities of sustaining structural damage caused by earthquake. The goal of this Standard is to ensure that nuclear facilities can withstand the effects of earthquake ground-shaking with desired performance. Topics include: evaluation of seismic demand; evaluation of structural capacity; load combinations and acceptance criteria for structures; ductile detailing requirements; equipment and distribution systems; and seismic quality provisions. This Standard will be of use to designers or analysts involved in the design of new nuclear structures, systems, or components.

Nuclear power plants --- Earthquake resistant design. --- Seismic design --- Seismic tests --- Building design --- Structural systems --- Structural members --- Structural design --- Seismic loads --- Earthquake resistant structures --- Earthquake effects.

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Prepared by the Animal Waste Containment Committee of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. Animal Waste Containment in Lagoons provides a comprehensive view of the state-of-the-art practice of animal waste containment and gives directions for future research techniques. Topics Include: Fate of nitrogen compounds in animal waste lagoons; Seepage and transport through anaerobic lagoon liners; Clogging of animal waste lagoon liners; Evaluating seepage losses and liner performance at animal waste lagoons using water balance methods; Use of coal combustion by-products as low permeability liners for manure storage facilities; and Air quality issues associated with livestock production. Practitioners in the following disciplines: water resources, environmental, geotechnical, and agricultural engineering will find this manual to be very beneficial.

Animal waste. --- Sewage lagoons. --- Agricultural wastes --- Animals --- Lagoons --- Waste containment --- Recycling --- Waste storage --- Linings --- Water resources

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This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 22 papers focusing on existing, widely accepted soil constitutive models, from simple to complex, and present the overall model framework, calibration procedures, and possible implementation. An overview paper discusses features of different classes of soil models and their advantages and disadvantages. For many models in this book and in the literature, these features are tabulated in a series of tables. The models are then categorized in terms of their completeness with respect to eight different model capabilities. This book has been prepared for soil constitutive modelers and practitioners who want to learn more about the underlying principles, calibration methods and implementation issues of many different proven soil models. The overview paper is especially helpful to those who are not experienced constitutive modelers to understand the different components of soil models and their effect on predictions.

Soil mechanics --- Constitutive relations --- Geotechnical models --- Calibration --- Geotechnical engineering --- Publications --- Bibliographies --- Mathematical models

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Standard Practice for the Design and Operation of Supercooled Fog Dispersal Projects presents the standard practice for conducting supercooled fog dispersal operational programs. Extended periods of fog can have large economic impacts on aviation, tourism, transportation, and mining industries—as well as a negative effect on agriculture. These problems can be reduced through the use of state-of-the-art supercooled fog dispersal technologies. This document describes the process through which such operations should be designed and conducted. It also provides the reader with information on the planning, conduct, and evaluation of such efforts. Topics include: history and status of supercooled fog dispersal technology; fog characteristics; project design and seeding agent delivery methods; operations manual; and evaluation of projects.

Fog --- Precipitation (Meteorology) --- Weather conditions --- Project management --- Economic factors --- Air transportation --- Tourism --- Industries --- Agriculture --- History --- Control. --- Modification.

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Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, held in Cancun, Mexico, July 12-15, 2005. This collection contains more than 179 papers. Topics include: computer aided education; modeling and simulation in support of infrastructure planning; conceptual bridge design; net-based engineering; multi-paradigm and multi-level simulation; non-destructive evaluation of infrastructure; impact of building information modeling on the construction industry; advances in computing in environmental engineering; facility area networks; advances in computing in geotechnical engineering; stochastic search; advance in computing in transportation engineering; advances in computing in structural engineering; AI and machine learning; disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; multi-agent systems; computer aided design; IT for monitoring and maintenance of infrastructure; computer supported collaborative work; human-computer interaction and visualization; computer aided construction; and decision support systems.

Civil engineering --- Computing in civil engineering --- Computer models --- Computer aided design --- Computer networks --- Structural engineering --- Systems engineering --- Engineering education --- Infrastructure construction --- Data processing