Environment, Coasts, Oceans, and Infrastructure

Ah! There are more to what are known about the model validation issues – and your intricate involvement in the processes. Thanks for enlightening and for your kind comments. Apart from adding a short portion of my research, as part of my discussion ...

You need a hydraulic engineer to obtain the HEC-RAS model of the site...they would have to make a request to FEMA for the model (there is a fee for FEMA to search their library and provide this)...half the time, despite being an AE zone they can't find ...

Folks: We are constructing a HECRAS model of a canal that includes a railway bridge supported by several rows of pile bents containing piles installed at a vertical angle that is perpendicular to the direction of flow. While bridge abutments can be ...

They're good queries. Further, here are something I like to share. As you know, environmental loads of various sorts are the major players in the scenarios of coastal highway embankments and bridges. Among the Force Fields in a Coastal System ...

Ahmed, following our earlier discussions on this – here are something more I like to add. The short answer is Sea Level Rise (SLR) is an important element of planning and design considerations in most, if not all of contemporaneous Coastal CE ...

Hi Kerem, It won't answer all of your questions, but this paper may be a start: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29IR.1943-4774.0000992 ------------------------------ William Shuster Ph.D., A.M.ASCE Chair, Professor Detroit MI ------ ...

Dear, I have completed a waterproofing project for a Fuel Element Factory in Brazil with approximately 15 thousand m², I carried out several studies and the safest and most viable was the PVC blanket. It's not a reservoir, it's a roof, but the study ...

What is a basement? Does it have to have a minimum headroom? The rest of the world thinks of a basement as being an occupiable space. The FEMA Technical Guide =Requirements for Flood Openings in Foundation Walls and Walls of Enclosures on page 5 ...

Dear all I need a guidance regarding the internal liquid epoxy lining of raw water pumping pipeline Nature of water lake water Life of liquid epoxy vs fusion bond epoxy 1. Requirements of liquid epoxy as per standard 2. Application requirements ...

Hi, For better understanding, If you can share the following inputs - a. Pipe material for the wastewater pipe in question, b. Type of waste water service, c. Type of encasement, concrete preferred for vehicular loads over pipe. ------------------------------ ...