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Developing Construction Claims For Arbitration: Two Arbitrators' Viewpoint, Douglas D. Gransberg, Charles A. Joplin
Developing Construction Claims For Arbitration: Two Arbitrators' Viewpoint, Douglas D. Gransberg, Charles A. Joplin
Douglas D. Gransberg
Two arbitrators' viewpoints of construction claims development are provided in the hope that the information will be useful to those needing to resolve construction claims by arbitration. It also may help to reduce the volume of costly and unnecessary documentation. Because of arbitration's relative formality, attorneys representing construction contractors and owners tend to prepare their cases in the same way as they would for litigation. This leads to potential information overkill, which threatens the arbitration panel's ability to easily sort through and understand the issues in its quest for a fair and equitable decision.
Scaling And Parameterization Of Stratified Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow, Lucinda H. Shih, Jeffrey R. Koseff, Joel H. Ferziger, Chris R. Rehmann
Scaling And Parameterization Of Stratified Homogeneous Turbulent Shear Flow, Lucinda H. Shih, Jeffrey R. Koseff, Joel H. Ferziger, Chris R. Rehmann
Chris R. Rehmann
Homogeneous sheared stratified turbulence was simulated using a DNS code. The initial turbulent Reynolds numbers (Re) were 22, 44, and 89, and the initial dimensionless shear rate (S*) varied from 2 to 16. We found (similarly to Rogers (1986) for unstratified flows) the final value of S* at high Re to be [similar] 11, independent of initial S*. The final S* varies at low Re, in agreement with Jacobitz et al. (1997). At low Re, the stationary Richardson number (Ris) depends on both Re and S*, but at higher Re, it varies only with Re. A scaling based on the …
Diapycnal Diffusivity Inferred From Scalar Microstructure Measurements Near The New England Shelf/Slope Front, Chris R. Rehmann, Timothy F. Duda
Diapycnal Diffusivity Inferred From Scalar Microstructure Measurements Near The New England Shelf/Slope Front, Chris R. Rehmann, Timothy F. Duda
Chris R. Rehmann
Conductivity microstructure was used to estimate the diapycnal thermal eddy diffusivity KT near the New England shelf/slope front in early August 1997. Two datasets were collected with a towed vehicle. One involved several horizontal tows in and above a warm, salty layer near the seafloor, and the other was from a tow-yo transect that sampled most of the water column. In the bottom layer, KT derived from microstructure is a factor of about 5 smaller than estimates derived from tracer dispersion at the same density level, and the diffusivity decreases sharply as the buoyancy frequency N increases: KT N−3.1. With …
Experimental And Theoretical Modeling Of Dynamically Loaded Surface Foundations On Granular Soils, Jeramy C. Ashlock
Experimental And Theoretical Modeling Of Dynamically Loaded Surface Foundations On Granular Soils, Jeramy C. Ashlock
Jeramy C. Ashlock
The mechanical properties of a cohesionless granular medium are strongly dependent on the confining stress, which varies three-dimensionally under a surface foundation due to gravitational and surface loading effects. Success in predicting a foundation’s response to dynamic loading is therefore highly dependent on the appropriate choice of material properties for a given theoretical model. Presented in this thesis are critical results from an investigation of dynamically loaded square foundations on granular soil using a geotechnical centrifuge. From the results, it is shown that the characterization of the vertical mode of vibration of the square foundations via the homogeneous half-space theory …