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Soil Corrosivity and Metal Loss in Earth Retaining and Foundation Systems
MSE wall reinforcement and driven piles are usually protected from corrosion by extra steel alone, sized to corrode away over the service life. How much extra steel to provide is the subject here. Built on the National Academies' 2023 study Corrosion of Buried Steel at New and...
Depicting Subsurface Utilities in Highway Design Plans
Every highway plan set shows buried utilities, but few say how reliable any given line is. The gap between a drawn line and the pipe in the ground surfaces at bid time or in the trench. ASCE 38-22 addresses that gap with four utility quality levels, and the course explains wha...
Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Coastal Structures
This course adapts FEMA's Guidance for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping: Coastal Structures (Guidance Document No. 42, November 2024) for engineers serving as the engineer of record on certified coastal flood protection structures or as a Mapping Partner under the National Floo...
Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Substructures
This course introduces structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for bridge substructures, drawing from FHWA's research report Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Substructures (FHWA-HRT-09-040). Topics include remote monitoring system components, sensor types for tempe...