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Purpose and Background
Design of foundations for equipment support is often required in industrial and process facilities, yet this topic is rarely, if ever, included in the engineering college curricula. Engineers are left to learn on the job – a process that often produces a variability of foundation designs for similar installations. In some cases the design is performed by the engineers who may or may not even have structural background. Yet whenever any component of an equipment foundation fails, the resulting strengthening and retrofit activities are often very expensive and intrusive into the equipment operations.

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Purpose and Background
Concrete has been called durable but not eternal material. Despite its longevity, it eventually deteriorates and requires repair or replacement. This webinar focuses on repairing deteriorated concrete and restoring its structural capacity. (A related topic on strengthening concrete buildings in sound condition is addressed in a separate presentation.) The webinar provides a succinct overview of the issues involved in repair of concrete structures, with a focus on practical solutions useful for a design engineer.

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Purpose and Background
Many renovation projects involve strengthening of foundations. Whenever an increase in gravity loading or a lateral load retrofit is proposed, foundation strengthening is likely to follow. Underpinning, the lowering or enlarging an existing foundation, is a basic technique of foundation strengthening. Underpinning of existing foundations is particularly common when new construction occurs nearby.

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Purpose and Background
Cut walls (top down construction) have a wide range of applications and encompass a diverse range of wall families including sheet pile, post and panel, H-pile and lagging, slurry and soil mix. These walls resist lateral earth and water pressures through their structural stiffness and anchorages. The LRFD platform offers a rational framework for consideration of different types of walls. This webinar will use the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) LRFD Bridge and Structures Specifications as a basis for the technical content. Applicable articles in Sections 11, 10 and 3 of the 6th Edition (2012) of AASHTO LRFD Specifications will be used as a basis of discussion.

The webinar will assume that the participant has a basic working knowledge of design and construction of cut retaining walls including fundamental aspects of earth pressure theories and earth pressure diagrams. It will include discussion on the terminology and types of cut walls, lateral earth pressure design approaches for cut walls, applicable load factors, use of minimum and maximum load factors for permanent loads, permanent and transient surcharge loads, identification of limit states and resistance factors, pressure surfaces for geotechnical and structural analysis, and consideration of extreme event limits state such as scour and seismic events. Introductory information on ground anchor application, construction and design of ground anchor walls in the context of limit states and general concepts will also be presented. A standalone webinar on ground anchor walls addresses the application of ground anchors in all types of cut walls in more detail.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Thursday, November 27, 2014.

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*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
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Purpose and Background
Fill walls have a wide range of applications and range in configuration from the basic gravity and cast-in-place (CIP) semi-gravity walls to complex mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls. The LRFD platform offers a rational framework for consideration of different types of fill walls. The webinar will use the 6th Edition (2012) American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) LRFD Bridge Design Specifications as a basis for the technical content. Applicable articles in Sections 11, 10 and 3 of the AASHTO LRFD Specifications will be used as a basis of discussion.

The webinar will assume that the participant has a basic working knowledge of design and construction of fill retaining walls including fundamental aspects of earth pressure theories. The webinar will include discussion on the terminology and types of fill walls, lateral earth pressure theories for fill walls, permanent and transient surcharge loads, applicable load factors, use of minimum and maximum load factors for permanent loads, identification of limit states and resistance factors, pressure surfaces for geotechnical and structural analysis, and consideration of extreme event limit states such as seismic events.

The webinar will concentrate on external stability of CIP and MSE walls. Introductory information on internal stability of MSE walls in the context of limit states and general concepts will also be presented. A standalone webinar on MSE walls addresses MSE walls in more detail.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Thursday, November 13, 2014.

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Purpose and Background
Recent advances in bicycle facility design guidance have led to increased demand from government agencies and the public to implement many of these innovative treatments. As more of these facilities are being implemented, users are recognizing the host of safety benefits and greater comfort level generated from the increased separation from automobile traffic and enhanced intersection treatments. Agencies throughout the country are using the design guidance recently issued within the National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Bikeway Design Manual, in association with the guidance set forth in the established U.S. manuals such as the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities and MUTCD, to implement these facilities. The primary goals of this webinar are to familiarize transportation engineers/planners with the newest innovations in the bicycle facility design practice. The webinar will discuss recent developments in available design guidance and considerations when designing these facilities.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Thursday, September 25, 2014.

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*Seating is limited to the first 30 people
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*RSVP to brooks.vogel@korda.com by Tuesday, June 24

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 30 people
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Purpose and Background
This webinar will cover the concepts related to creation of a design storm for use in hydraulic software packages, along with sources of rainfall data. Many projects require that a rainfall-runoff model be developed to determine the design flow for a storm sewer system, a detention pond, or some other hydraulic conveyance facility. This is typically completed using one of a variety of software packages, such as SWMM, HEC-HMS, or vendor software. These software packages require that rainfall information be input, usually in a time series; however, very little guidance is provided in the software packages on how to take the available rainfall information and create a time series that can be used in the software. Storm water design manuals usually include requirements such as designing for the 10-year, 24-hour event, or for the 25-year, 6-hour event, but provide no information on how to actually develop a design storm for these events. This webinar will cover the concepts related to creation of a design storm for use in hydraulic software packages, along with sources of rainfall data. The webinar will include examples of the different techniques so that attendees will be able to use them, along with appropriate rainfall data, to develop a design storm for any location.

RSVP to Patrick.Warnement@wdpartners.com by Friday, June 13, 2014.

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*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
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Purpose and Background
This webinar concentrates on micropile foundations. Micropile foundations are often a technically sound and cost-effective foundation choice where a deep foundation solution is appropriate based on site conditions, applied loads and project schedule and performance requirements. The LRFD platform offers a rational framework for consideration of micropile foundation systems. The webinar will use the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) LRFD Bridge and Structures Specifications as a basis for the technical content. Applicable articles in Section 10.5 and 10.9 of AASHTO LRFD Specifications will be used as a basis of discussion.

The webinar will include discussion on the terminology and construction of micropiles, identification of limit states and resistance factors, axial compression and uplift resistance of a single micropile, estimation of grout-ground bond resistance and tip resistance, group efficiency factors for evaluation of axial resistance of micropiles in groups, buckling and lateral stability, lateral resistance of micropiles in groups, evaluation of settlement of micropile groups, concept of cased, uncased and plunge lengths, consideration of extreme event limits state such as scour and seismic events, corrosion and deterioration, and typical structural detailing and design. The webinar will assume that the participant has a basic working knowledge of design and construction of deep foundations.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, June 27, 2014.

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*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
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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.