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Aggregates from Natural and Recycled Sources Economic Assessments for Construction Applications - A Materials Flow Analysis

Aladdin
A Computational Toolkit for Engineering Matrix and Finite Element Analysis
"...is a computational toolkit for the interactive matrix and finite element analysis of large engineering structures, particularly building and highway bridge structures. Aladdin views finite element computations as a specialized form of matrix computations, matrices as rectangular arrays of physical quantities, and numbers as dimensionless physical quantities."
Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park

American Society of Civil Engineers

• Report Card for America's Infrastructure

APWA Reporter

Arizona Highways

The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society (ejournal)
"The Bridge presents thoughtful opinion and analysis on engineering research, education, and practice; science and technology policy; and the roles of engineering and technology in all aspects of society."
- National Academy of Engineering

• Systems challenges on a Global Scale
  "The papers in this issue of The Bridge focus on various aspects of the recent tsunami disaster."
  Volume 35, No. 2, Summer 2005

Built in America
Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
"The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as windmills, one-room schoolhouses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright."
American Memory, Library of Congress

California Dams Database - (dead link)
"...contains information on 1395 California dams. This data was taken from a 1993 publication of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) called 'Dams within the Jurisdiction of the State of California', DWR Bulletin 17."
- University of California, Berkeley - Digital Library Project

CERCular

The Civil Engineer

The Civil Engineer Discussion List

Coastal Engineering Journal

Coatings & Composite Materials - (dead link)

Columbia River Water Management Report

Constructech Online

Design of Ice Booms

Developing New Low-Temperature Admixtures for Concrete - A Field Evaluation

Digital Bridges
Bridges Of The Nineteenth Century
"The Digital Bridges Web site consists of a collection thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. Many of these items are relatively rare an in some cases quite fragile."
- Lehigh University Libraries

Earthquake (02/28/01) Damage to Washington Libraries

• University of Washington
  • Engineering Library
  • Fisheries-Oceanography Library - (dead link)
  • Physics-Astronomy Library

Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (EJGE)

Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering

Elwha River Restoration Project

Engineer

Engineering News-Record

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Reference Library

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory
"...catalogues 1240 programs in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology, Foundation Engineering, Hydrogeology, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Visualisation and lists 757 worldwide suppliers and publishers of these programs."
Compiled by Tom Spink

Heavy Construction News
Canada's Construction Magazine
Free registration required.

History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
"The following images and text detail the story of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge from the inception to the reopening of a reconstructed bridge in 1950. Links to further pages on the Construction, Opening, Collapse, Aftermath, and Reconstruction are available at the bottom of the page."
- University of Washington Libraries

Infoshare - (dead link)
"...is the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) weekly newsletter giving the latest news and views on developments and projects within the civil engineering profession."

Introduction to Fluid Power
Training Series on How Hydraulics and Pneumatics Work
By Integrated Publishing

Journal of earthquake engineering (JEE)

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology - History of Science Collection

• Centuries of Civil Engineering
  A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrating the Heritage of Civil Engineering
  Sections include: Canals ; Water Supply ; Monuments ; Bridges ; Lighthouses ; Viaducts.

Modal analysis
The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis

National Academy Press (free online versions)

• 2006
  • Second Report of the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects
    Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, 2006.
• 2003
  • Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering: A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
    Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), National Research Council, 2003.
  • A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan: Parts I and II
    Panel on Water System Security Research, National Research Council, 2003.
• 2001
  • Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation
    Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-Effects and Related Research, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council, 2001.
• 1994
  • Improving the Safety of Marine Pipelines
    Committee on the Safety of Marine Pipelines, Marine Board, National Research Council, 1994.
• 1991
  • Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams: Design, Performance, and Research Needs
    Panel on Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams, Committee on Earthquake Engineering, Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation, National Research Council, 1991.

National Transportation Safety Board Selected Publications.

Potential of Nanotechnology for Molecular Manufacturing
By Max Nelson and Calvin Shipbaugh

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

• New Orleans Hurricane Protection Projects Data - (dead link)
  - Interagency Performance Evalutiuon Task Force (IPET) Draft Final Report, June 2006.
• Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration (LACPR)
  "The project will identify, describe and propose a full range of flood control, coastal restoration, and hurricane protection measures for South Louisiana."
  • Technical Reports
• Hurricane Protection System
  - New Orleans District Task Force
• Iraq and Afghanistan

University of California, Berkeley - Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center PEER)

• Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
  "Access to world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971."
• OpenSees
  Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
  "...a software framework for developing applications to simulate the performance of structural and geotechnical systems subjected to earthquakes."
• PEER Strong Motions Database
  "...contains 1557 records from 143 earthquakes from tectonically active regions, processed by Dr. Walt Silva of Pacific Engineering using publicly available data from Federal, State, and private providers of strong motion data."

Databases
ASCE Civil Engineering Database

California PATH Bibliographic Database
"...the world's largest bibliographic database pertaining to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)...and is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California at Berkeley."

Encyclopedia of Housing Construction Types in Seismically Prone Areas of the World
"...an interactive web-based encyclopedia of housing construction types in seismically prone areas of the world. This endeavor is linking over 180 volunteer engineers and architects from many diverse countries and regions, enabling them to develop and share data, and providing the worldwide housing professionals and general public with the tools to improve housing vulnerable to earthquakes..."
Joint Project of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the International Association of Earthquake Engineering.

MatWeb
The Online Materials Information Resource

NIST Heat Transmission Properties of Insulating and Building Materials
NIST Standard Reference Database 81
"...provides a valuable reference for building designers, material manufacturers, and researchers in the thermal design of building components and equipment."
Data compiled and evaluated by Robert R. Zarr, NIST Building and Fire Research

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