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It should be emphasized that capital cost estimates using installation factors are at best crude and at worst highly misleading. When preparing such an estimate, the designer spends most of the time on the equipment costs, which represent typically 20 to 40 percent of the total installed cost. The bulk costs (civil engineering, labor, etc.) are factored costs which lack definition. At best, this type of estimate can be expected to be accurate to 30 percent. 

Waterproofing, whether it has to do with protecting civil engineering structures or roofs or terraces. Poured asphalt, often placed in layers with kraft paper, oxidized bitumen or modified bitumen can be used, generally with copolymer. The modified bitumen are used for the making prefabricated multi-layer waterproofing composites. 

The performance of the classifier has been verified using a number of practical applications, such as civil engineering [3], inspection of aerospace composite structures, ball bearings and aircraft multi-layer structures. Here we present shortly some results, focusing on detection of disbonds in adhesively joint multi-layer aerospace structures using Fokker Bond Tester resonance instrument, details can be found in [1]. 

Andrews, J. Blanchard, T. Stepinski, L. Ericsson, Ultrasonic spectroscopy for NDT, Presented at Int. Symp. Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE), Berlin, 1995... 

P. Shaw - FORCE Institute, Sweden CIVIL ENGINEERING... 

There remains a great deal of work to be done before NDE in Civil Engineering ean reaeh the technological standards and level of sophistication which is found in established and traditional NDE-branches. There are NDE- methods presently available, however, which are reliable and which can be put to practical use on site, but their potential is not being fully exploited. 

Recent conferences held on the subject of NDE in Civil Engineering, e.g. NDE-CE 1993,... 

As for radiography it seems that the lack of attention is due to a combination of trends and fashion, coupled to a general unawareness of this technique amongst the civil engineering community. 

A list from experience of typical and most common inspection requirements in civil engineering in reeent years and the methods applied is given below ... 

It also requires two- sided aceess to the structural element in question. The degree of contrast between homogenius concrete and concrete with voids will not decrease linearly with increasing thickness, and the maximum practical thickness of concrete elements which can be studied for small voids using film radiography is of course limited, but sufficient for most civil engineering applications. 

The common civil engineering seismic testing techniques work on the principles of ultrasonic through transmission (UPV), transient stress wave propagation and reflection (Impact Echo), Ultrasonic Pulse Echo (UPE) and Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (SASW). 

Based on the technology developed for using PVA fiber as a replacement for asbestos in cement products, Kuraray has been developing thick fibers for reinforcing concrete (42). Super-thick fibers with a thickness of 39 tex (350 den) (200 p.m in diameter) to 444 tex (4000 den) (660 p.m in diameter) are now available the 39 tex material is used for reinforcing various mortar-based cement products and the 444 tex material for reinforcing concrete in civil engineering works such as tuimels, roads, harbors, and bays. 

Measurement by Liquid Level. The flow rate of Hquids flowing in open channels is often measured by the use of weirs (see Liquid-LEVEL measurement). The most common type is the rectangular weir shown in Figure 22e. The flow rate across such a weir varies approximately with the quantity. Other shapes of weirs are also employed. Standard civil engineering handbooks describe the precautions necessary for constmcting and interpreting data from weirs. 

High performance fibers are generally characterized by remarkable unit tensile strength and resistance to heat, flame, and chemical agents that normally degrade conventional fibers. Applications include uses in the aerospace, biomedical, civil engineering, constmction, protective apparel, geotextiles, and electronic areas. 

InternationalHigh-Eevel Radioactive Waste Conference, Eas Wegas, Nev., 1994, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, Id., American Society of Civil Engineers, New York. 

The civil engineering market for scrap tires encompasses several distinct uses. Whole tires have been used to constmct retaining walls and crash barriers. One pubhcized use is the constmction of houses and at least one motel (7). Whole tires have been used in erosion control, and to constmct breakwaters and artificial reefs. 

Collins, Ramaswamy, Ahmed, and Blumenthal, in Inyang and Bergeson, eds.. Utilisation of Waste Materials in Civil Engineering Construction. 

J. R. Sammgard, Ground Rubber and Civil Engineering Marketsfor Scrap Tires, Aug. 1994. 

R. V. van Zanten, ed.. Geotextiles and Geomembranes in Civil Engineering A. A. Balkema Publishing, Rotteidam, The Nethedands, 1986. 

Water Environment Eederation (formerly Water Pollution Control Eederation) and American Society of Civil Engineers, xleration Wastewater Treatment Process, Manual of Practice No. FD-13, Alexandria, Va. and New York (1988). 

Irwin J. Kugelman, Sc.D., Professor of Civil Engineering, Leliigh University Member, American Society of Civil Engineering, Water Environmental Federation (Section 25, Waste Management)... 

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