Future Challenges for Civil Engineersdoi:10.11129/9783955534615-059Werner Lang
The program was initiated as one of the President's budget items for Fiscal Year (FY) 1991 and approved by Congress. The program is overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Directorate of Civil Works, and the Corps' Institute for Water Resources (IWR) has detailed management...
In recent years, machine learning, especially ANNs and DL has become instrumental in developing models for civil structures' vibration-based SDD. Their efficacy has been validated through numerous studies. Therefore, this paper is devoted to discussing the challenges and future trends in vibration-...
Another unique aspect of heavy civil projects is the multifaceted roles that civil contractors can play. They often take on the responsibilities of a general contractor (GC), leading large projects on their own. But it's also not uncommon for these contractors to also serve as subcontractors, ...
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational geomechanics, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), held in ...
aThere 'intermediate' courts are presided over by a single who hears indictable criminal cases with a jury and civil claims below a monetary limit. 那里‘中间’法院由唯一主持谁在一个金钱极限之下听见应予起诉的刑事案件与陪审员和民用要求。[translate] ...
THE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS ENCOURAGES TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS TO INTENSIFY THEIR CONCERN FOR THE PROFESSION. THIS FEATURE POINTS OUT THE need for transportation professionals to look into the future and to prepare for tomorrow's challenges. Too many of us...
In 2011, China’s Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank) and the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC) signed an approximate US $3.8 billion contract for the construction of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway (Fig. 4). The main engineering tasks were completed in 2017, and the...
Civil and Structural EngineeringAll construction professionals such as civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, quantity surveyors, and architects have important roles in the construction process. Among these, architects are frequently appointed as a project manager (PM). The role of a PM will ...
For dozens of years, Afghanistan has been in the news - from the Soviet invasion followed by the civil war, the Taliban rule and the US-led forces war on terror to the reconstruction of the country. The latest headline grabber was the July 19 abduction of 23 South Koreans. ...