Past Events
Civil Engineering Career Day - 2015
The Central Ohio Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is sponsoring a "Civil Engineering Career Day". The purpose of the program is to expose high school juniors to the profession in hopes that they may consider civil engineering as a career. In the past, the program has received national recognition from ASCE for the excellent exposure that the students and community receive as part of the program. This year the program will take place April 21, 2015.
Recycled Base Aggregates in Pavement Applications
*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 20 people
*Bring your own lunch
Purpose and Background
FHWA's Long-Term Pavement Performance Program
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program was initiated in 1987 and is the largest pavement study ever conducted.
The program has monitored more than 2,500 test sections on in-service highways located throughout the United States and Canada.
The program's goal is to understand how and why pavements perform as they do. As highway agencies transition to a performance based approach to managing highway investments, this goal is more important then ever.
Board Meeting
Blue Jackets vs New Jersey Devils Hockey Game - SOLD OUT
Based on the popularity of our previous Blue Jackets outings, we, in conjunction with ASHE, have a group package of 40 tickets to the Blue Jackets-Devils game. Tickets are $10 per member and $15 per guests. We're accepting pre-payment using PayPal. As these tickets usually sell for $50 face value, it's a great deal.
You can pick up the tickets from Matt Baxendell at Brother's before the game. Contact Matt (Matt.Baxendell@woolpert.com) for more info or any questions.
Blue Jackets Tickets - Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
SOLD OUT
Dynamically Loaded Machine and Equipment Foundations - A Design Primer
*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch
Machinery and equipment typically found in industrial and process facilities often exert dynamic loads on their foundations. Designing these foundations is quite complicated, much more so than the design of the foundations that support buildings and statically loaded equipment. (The latter is addressed in the companion ASCE webinar, Design of Foundations for Equipment Supports.) This topic is rarely, if ever, included in the engineering college curricula, and the engineers are left to learn on the job. Yet the stakes are high: The failure of an incorrectly designed machine foundation can lead to damaged equipment and to expensive downtime. This webinar provides a practical introduction to the complex issues of designing dynamically loaded machine and equipment foundations.
Purpose and Background
Many engineering firms that specialize in the design of industrial facilities and heavy-equipment foundations have developed a wealth of in-house design standards, but this information is not available to others. As a result, and because of the design complexity involving dynamic analysis and specialized software, some engineers have resorted to simplistic rules-of-thumb without understanding the limitations of such shortcuts.
2015 Ohio Valley Student Conference
The 2015 Ohio Valley Student Conference will be hosted March 26 – 28 by the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati State. The conference will be held in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
March Luncheon Meeting
Joint meeting with SEAoO
Topic: Case Study - Bridge Park Development
(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)
Schaefer is providing structural engineering and parking consulting services for the first phase of this $300 million mixed-use development. Phase 1A consists of 370 apartment units, 140,000 sq ft of office space, 120,000 sq ft of retail and restaurants, and a 190-room hotel with conference center. Two six-story free-standing parking structures will park 900 vehicles in 291,000 sq ft each; a third similarly-sized garage is in the planning stages. The Schaefer team is developing the garages’ functional layouts including entrances and exits, circulation and parking stall layout. Construction materials for the project’s structures include post-tensioned concrete for the parking garages, structural steel for the free-standing office buildings, and one- and two-story post-tensioned concrete podiums supporting three- to five-story wood-framed residential buildings above. The presentation will cover project challenges that included roadways on the podiums, a sloping site with rock, multiple construction types and materials, and detailing for wood shrinkage, concrete movement, and brick support. Non-technical challenges included the project delivery method, zoning requirements, budget, and schedule.
Board Meeting
Floodplain Mapping Using HEC-GeoRAS and RAS Mapper
*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch
Purpose and Background
HEC-GeoRAS is an ArcGIS toolbar that helps to incorporate LiDAR and other topographic datasets in to HEC-RAS. This webinar will demonstrate how to easily add topographic data to a HEC-RAS model once the HEC-RAS model has been run, and how to map the resulting floodplain using both HEC-GeoRAS and the new HEC-RAS tool, RAS Mapper.
RSVP to MMarquis@smeinc.com by Friday, Feb. 27, 2015.