Much of the San Francisco Bay Area's waterfront is built on artificial fill placed over soft bay deposits. This ground is susceptible to liquefaction and lateral spreading during a design earthquake, which threatens the stability of essential shoreline infrastructure.
Desalination is rapidly becoming a core element of our future water systems. Not only does it allow us to tap into alternative water sources like brackish groundwater and seawater, but it is also central to water reuse.
This presentation will discuss the evaluation of several upper reservoir dam alternatives, including concrete-faced rockfill dams (CFRDs), geomembrane-faced rockfill dams, roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams, and asphalt-core rockfill dams.
This presentation will discuss some of the design and construction challenges related to the foundations and shoring for the development of the 50 at First development in San Francisco, California.
This lecture examines two mechanisms that can produce cracking outside traditional fatigue-based expectations and discusses approaches for achieving reliable structural performance.
