The April 2014 newsletter is now available for download.

18th Annual ASCE Golf Outing June 13th!!

Don’t forget to mark your calendars and signup for the 18th annual ASCE Central Ohio Section Golf Outing to be held June 13th , 11:00a.m. at Darby Creek Golf Course. The format is the ever popular 2 person mixed format. For a low entry fee of $70 you get greens fees, cart, driving range, drink tickets, lunch, steak and chicken dinner, beverages, tons of hole and place prizes and lots of “those” pies at the end.

Topic: Becoming the Engineering Leader of Tomorrow

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

Engineering the Future: ASCE’s Vision for 2025 includes three strategic initiatives: Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Raise the Bar. Hear about what ASCE is doing in each of these critical areas and how you can participate in making a difference.

Ohio Engineers Legislative Day

Earn 4.0 CPD Hours!

Join us in Columbus for Ohio Engineers Legislative Day on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. OSPE and ASCE members may register for a 30% reduced price!

Topics will include:

• Ohio Public Works Commission - Accomplishments of the Last 20 Years
• Bridging Our Way to the Future With Public Private Partnerships
• Good Samaritan Law / Computer Based Testing
• Fracking - Regulation & Taxes
• Bill Summary
• Making the Highway Trust Fund Solvent

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
This webinar will focus on the best practices for designing the geometric aspects of roundabouts to maximize the safety of all road users using guidance from the latest publications from FHWA and TRB. About 65% of all crashes in urban areas and 40% of all crashes in rural areas occur at or near intersections or driveways. Safety improvements at these locations have always been a priority and pose a challenge for most transportation agencies. Because crashes are typically complex events, a variety of mitigation measures have been tried with varying degrees of success, including the modern roundabout. This webinar will focus on the best practices for designing the geometric aspects of roundabouts to maximize the safety of all road users using guidance from the latest publications from FHWA and TRB. Case studies will be used to highlight problems that can result from roundabouts that are not designed in accordance with best practices.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
Design of steel connections goes hand-in-hand with the design of structural members. Quite often the connection proves to be the weakest point of the structure, with predictable consequences. Indeed, a number of recent construction failures and accidents that led to inevitable litigation involved steel connections. There is plenty of information on the topic, but some engineers may not have kept up with the changes in the authoritative documents and still use obsolete design procedures. While many of the old designs worked well enough, there is a good practical reason to learn about the new approaches, as they tend to yield more economical solutions.

This webinar provides a concise and to-the-point overview of the most practical issues involved in the design of bolted and welded connections found in structural steel buildings. The presentation starts with a summary of the main issues, including the relevant AISC documents. It then proceeds to the main subject the practical methods of designing bolted and welded connections. The instructor examines the relevant changes that have taken place in the AISC Specification and AISC Manual. A number of design examples using the tables in the Manual and other sources illustrate the practical design approaches to handling groups of bolts and welds.

The presentation continues with a discussion of simple shear connections and how they are different from moment connections. (The latter are discussed in a separate ASCE webinar Moment-Resisting Connections In Steel Structures.) Throughout the webinar, the instructor points out some of the issues that are still not fully resolved and those where design practices tend to differ among engineers.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Monday, April 21, 2014.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
As the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), state and local water quality management regulations increasingly limit impacts to receiving water, stormwater management and the use of Best Management Practices (BMPs) have become a primary design consideration for most civil engineering projects in the U.S. Many states provide stormwater BMP design guidance documents to aid engineers with the selection and proper design of many types of structural BMPs. However, with the variability of soils, topography and other design constraints that occur between sites, it is often difficult to determine which BMP will be the most appropriate and cost effective solution. This webinar will review guidance documents and use example projects to demonstrate how to determine when a site is appropriate for the utilization of dry bottom infiltration basins that rely on in-situ soils for stormwater quantity and quality treatment.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, April 18, 2014.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
This webinar offering concentrates on lateral analysis of deep foundations. Deep foundations are often used for structures which experience large lateral loads for which shallow foundations are not feasible due to large overturning moments and resultant load eccentricities. The LRFD platform offers a rational framework for performing lateral analysis of deep foundations. The webinar will be primarily based on the 6th Edition (2012) of LRFD Bridge Design Specifications developed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Applicable articles in Sections 3, 5, 6, 10, and 11 of AASHTO LRFD Specifications will be used as a basis of discussion. The webinar material will be applicable to different types of deep foundations such as driven piles, drilled shafts, and micropiles.

The webinar will include discussion on loads and limit states from a lateral analysis perspective, models for lateral soil resistance using soil-structure interaction concepts such as the p-y and the strain wedge methods, structural resistance of piles with emphasis on flexural resistance of reinforced concrete and steel piles, pile head fixity, group behavior, equivalent cantilever model, step-by-step method for lateral load analysis, extreme events, scour, and other special considerations such as downdrag, lateral squeeze and collapse susceptible soils. A detailed example problem will be included to demonstrate the application of LRFD principles.

The webinar assumes that the participant has a working knowledge of lateral load analysis including development of appropriate subsurface investigations and geotechnical data, interpretation of geotechnical data to develop geomaterial properties for lateral analysis, and use of commonly available software for lateral analysis such as COM624P. Accordingly, the webinar will concentrate on application of LRFD principles to lateral analysis of deep foundations.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, April 4, 2014.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
A road diet represents the rechannelization of a roadway from four lanes, consisting of two travel lanes in each direction, to three lanes, consisting of one travel lane in each direction separated by a two-way left-turn lane. The additional roadway width that results from this reconfiguration is then used to establish bicycle lanes, accommodate on-street parking, or create additional separation between the motoring public and pedestrians and bicyclists.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

The 27th Central PA Geotechnical Conference will be held from April 23 to 25, 2014 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This highly informative and interesting Conference offers 10 Professional Development Hours (PDH’s). For more information, visit the conference website:
http://www.central-pa-asce-geotech.org/.

Early-bird registration ends March 24, 2014.