Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations

Calculation Procedure: Subject the structure to a load for purposes of analysis Steel and timber piles may be considered to be ...

Test the accuracy of the construction Select a third point c on the action line of the 150-kip (667.2-kN) load, and locate the ...

FIGURE 20. Real and dummy piles. Stating the equation for the length L' of the dummy pile, equate the displacement Ax in the equ ...

Calculation Procedure: Describe how/ dummy piles may be used A pile made of reinforced concrete and built integrally with the p ...

Calculation Procedure: Describe how/ dummy piles may be used A pile made of reinforced concrete and built integrally with the p ...

TABLE 2 Examples of Price Changes in Municipal Wastes* Price per ton, $ Last year Current year Newspapers 60 150 Corrugated card ...

cording to industry records, over 12 million computers a year. These computers, weighing an estimated 600 million pounds (272 mi ...

required for this waste generation rate if the landfill is designed for the minimum recom- mended depth of fill? Determine the e ...

TABLE 3. Various Treatment Technologies Available to Clean Up a Contaminated Waste Site* Relative cost Low Low Medium Medium to ...

Low Low Low to medium when regeneration is possible LowLow but rising fast Medium Mostly volatile organicsMostly volatile organi ...

shows, thermal desorption treats volatile and semivolatile organics and volatile metals; cost is medium to high. Alternatively, ...

To show what industry has done to reduce harmful wastes, here are results published in the Wall Street Journal for the years 197 ...

FIGURE 21. Leachate seepage in landfill. (McGraw-Hill). Calculation Procedure: Compare the treatment technologies available A n ...

TABLE 4. Comparison of Biological Treatment Technologies* Type/cost ($/yd^3 ) Land treatment $30-$90 Bioventing $50-$120 Bioreac ...

Determine the cost ranges that might be encountered in this application The cost ranges that might be encountered in this—or an ...

FIGURE 22. Pipes blowing air from the bottom of this enclosure separate contaminants from the soil. (OHM Corp., Carla Magazino a ...

Method B is so superior to Treatment Method A, B would be chosen. The ratio of NPV is 2.84 in favor of Method B over Method A. U ...

Observation of the short-term degradation of PCP in initial tests suggested that the major- ity of the degradation occurred in t ...

Regulatory constraints are perhaps the most important factor in selecting bioremedia- tion as a treatment process. Regulations t ...

Calculation Procedure: Establish a work-measurement equation from a beach model After the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Ree ...