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Provides a framework for the design of tall buildings for wind. This MOP presents detailed guidance on industry standard practices and design approaches that complement current literature, model codes, and standards.

Produced by a Task Committee created by ASCE, this report provides guidance to structural engineers in the design of civil structures to resist the effects of terrorist bombings. It includes unrestricted government information, which is assembled collectively and rephrased for application to civilian facilities.

The second edition of MOP 104 details best practices for the use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite poles and crossarms in resilient conductor support applications. This new edition updates and expands on nearly every aspect of FRP pole and crossarm testing, design considerations, installation, and asset management.

Provides comprehensive knowledge of the principles and methods for the design and use of wood poles for overhead utility line structures. The use of wood pole structures, properly designed utilizing consistent structural engineering principles, may provide a simple, cost effective, and more resilient option than other pole materials commonly used.

Structural fire engineering design is the calculated design of a structure to withstand the thermal load effects of fire based on specific performance criteria. This manual addresses the current practice, thermal and structural analysis methods, and available information to support structural fire engineering design.

Provides guidance for and contributes to the developing or enhancing of methods for infrastructure analysis and design in a world in which risk profiles are changing and can be projected with varying degrees of uncertainty requiring a new design philosophy to meet this challenge.

Presents the fundamentals and current state of practice of instrumented measurements for monitoring dam performance. Dam performance monitoring is a balance of visual surveillance and instrumental measurements to accurately understand how well a dam is performing.

The design of turbine-generator foundations requires advanced technical expertise in structural engineering and soil dynamics, as well as close collaboration with manufacturers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and plant designers. This volume provides the practical assistance needed to meet these challenges with the most up-to-date and reliable information available.

Supplies the practical details for implementing a cloud seeding project to enhance precipitation efficiency. This revised and updated Manual of Practice incorporates pertinent background on the science and practice of weather modification through the use of cloud seeding that has developed over the past 10 years. It also presents additional methods of evaluation for such programmes.

Offers a comprehensive reference to estimating the water quantities needed for irrigation of crops based on the physics of evaporation and evapotranspiration (ET). This new edition of MOP 70, which updates and expands the 1990 original, provides improved and standardized methods to estimate evaporation and ET and to apply and evaluate calculations.