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Weston, David C., and G. Edward Gibson. "Partnering‐Project Performance in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Journal of Management in Engineering 9, no. 4 (October 1993): 410–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)9742-597x(1993)9:4(410).

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Schneider, Scott. "Ergonomics: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ergonomics Standard." Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 12, no. 7 (July 1997): 460–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1047322x.1997.10390027.

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Pursell, Carroll, and William F. Willingham. "Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon: A Histopry of the Portland District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." American Historical Review 90, no. 1 (February 1985): 231. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1860922.

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Cass, Edward, and William F. Willingham. "Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon: A History of the Portland District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Technology and Culture 26, no. 2 (April 1985): 334. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3104375.

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Newell, Alan S., and Michael E. Welsh. "U. S. Army Corps of Engineers: Albuquerque District, 1935-1985." Western Historical Quarterly 19, no. 4 (November 1988): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/968342.

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Schubert, Frank N. "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Afghanistan's Highways 1960–1967." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 117, no. 3 (September 1991): 445–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(1991)117:3(445).

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Houston, James. "Nearshore and Offshore Modeling by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Marine Technology Society Journal 33, no. 3 (January 1, 1999): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.33.3.11.

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The corps of Engineers requires predictive models of hydrodynamic conditions in the nearshore and offshore to perform its civil works and military missions. To support these missions, the Corps has developed numerical models that predict tidal and wind-driven elevations and currents, directional-spectral wind-wave climatology, and groundwater movement and interaction with coastal surface waters.

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Sabatier, François. "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM), Engineer Manual 1110-2-1100." Méditerranée, no. 108 (January 1, 2007): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/mediterranee.201.

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Hearne, Robert R., and Tony Prato. "Institutional evolution of Missouri river management." Water Policy 18, no. 3 (October 29, 2015): 619–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.224.

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The Missouri River is the longest river in North America and flows from the semi-arid western states to the relatively moist Midwest. An integrated system of large reservoirs, constructed in the mid-20th century, provides important water storage, hydroelectricity and flood control benefits. This system has been managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers which has traditionally followed its original mandate to support navigation and flood control. As water uses and societal values have evolved, the management of the river has slowly evolved, and the Army Corps of Engineers has adopted adaptive management to incorporate biological uncertainties into its decision-making. Other evolution, including the incorporation of economic incentives into water management, has failed to occur.

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Thompson, John, and William F. Willingham. "Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon: A History of the Portland District U. S. Army Corps of Engineers." Western Historical Quarterly 16, no. 2 (April 1985): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/969697.

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Richardson, John, and Pamela Waterman. "Stemming the Flood." Mechanical Engineering 133, no. 07 (July 1, 2011): 30–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2011-jul-1.

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This article discusses measures being taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect New Orleans from future flood events. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is redesigning and upgrading the 350-mile network of linked levees, floodwalls, gates, and pumps in the New Orleans area. The Corps of Engineers’ plan for New Orleans flood control involves upgrading some existing structures such as levees and floodwalls and adding some new risk-reduction features, two of which are movable gates. The proposed Bayou Bienvenue Gate will sit near the junction of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet to keep floodwater away from the southern end of the Industrial Canal. The Seabrook Gate will span the northern end of the Industrial Canal where it meets Lake Pontchartrain. By preventing storm surges from entering the Industrial Canal, these gates will protect a densely populated residential and commercial area. However, the presence of the new gates will change day-to-day current patterns in ways that could impact existing structures and use.

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Birkemeier, William, Linda Lillycrop, Robert Jensen, and Charley Chesnutt. "The Importance of Coastal Observations to Activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Marine Technology Society Journal 44, no. 6 (November 1, 2010): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.44.6.11.

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AbstractThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is a project-oriented agency with multiple national missions under its Civil Works program including navigation, hydropower, flood risk management, ecosystem restoration, water supply, regulatory authority for wetlands and U.S. waters, recreation, and disaster preparedness and response. The Corps ocean and coastal activities revolve around the design, construction, and maintenance of specific projects such as channel dredging, coastal protection, beach nourishment, and harbor construction, all requiring research, modeling, and observations. Several Corps activities contribute ocean observations to the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) and have requirements for existing or planned IOOS observations. Collected observations include long-term coastal wave climate, water levels, and coastal mapping data information. These provide project-specific and regional data that are used to develop and verify numerical models which are extensively used in project design and to evaluate project costs, benefits, and associated risk. An overview of the Corps coastal activities, data collection, and modeling programs is provided along with information regarding how IOOS coastal and ocean data are being used by the Corps.

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Ruttinger, George D. "Army corps of engineers settles $45 million claim at mini-trial." Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 3, no. 8 (August 1985): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alt.3810030802.

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McKay, David T., Kevin L. Rens, Lowell F. Greimann, and James H. Stecker. "Condition Index Assessment for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 5, no. 2 (June 1999): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1076-0342(1999)5:2(52).

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Wood, Matthew, Daniel Kovacs, Ann Bostrom, Todd Bridges, and Igor Linkov. "Flood Risk Management: US Army Corps of Engineers and Layperson Perceptions." Risk Analysis 32, no. 8 (May 9, 2012): 1349–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01832.x.

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Buss, Larry S. "Nonstructural Flood Damage Reduction Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 130, no. 1 (May 1, 2009): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704x.2005.mp130001005.x.

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Rosati, Julie Dean, Katherine Flynn Touzinsky, and W. Jeff Lillycrop. "Quantifying coastal system resilience for the US Army Corps of Engineers." Environment Systems and Decisions 35, no. 2 (May 10, 2015): 196–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-015-9548-3.

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Pantchenko, Аnatolij M. "Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich - the Organizer of Libraries in the Artillery, Corps of Engineers and in the Military-Educational Institutions (second quarter of the 19th century)." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 3 (June 28, 2015): 76–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2015-0-3-76-84.

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N the basis of the archival materials and pre-revolutionary publications there is for the first time comprehensively studied the activities of the son of Emperor Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, being in the capacity of: General-Feldzeugmeister (1819-1849), Inspector General for Engineering (1825-1849), Director-General of Military Educational Institutions (1831-1849), where were laid the foundations of the centralized organization of the officer libraries in the Artillery, Corps of Engineers and in the Military Schools. Under Mikhail Pavlovich, as the Commander of the Guards Corps (1826-1849), the organized officer libraries in the Guards Corps have got its further development. There are presented and analyzed normative legal documents, having made the significant contribution to the history of military librarianship of the Russian Army. Some of them became the basis for the further development of “Statutes”, “Regulations” and “Instructions” of military libraries. There is given comparative characteristics and there are shown some organizational features of the artillery, engineers, combat engineer and regimental guard officer libraries, as well as book collections of the secondary military schools.

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Morefield, Sean, and John Carlyle. "Acoustic Leak Survey of the Underground Potable Water System at a CONUS Army Installation." Advanced Materials Research 38 (March 2008): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.38.143.

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U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), and Carlyle Consulting’s John Carlyle conducted a leak detection survey at a U.S. Army Installation. The age of pipes in the distribution system ranged from 20 to 60 years. The thrust of the work was to acoustically survey all of the underground pipelines constituting the installation’s potable water distribution system and find any leaks. The results of the survey were that 6 leaks were discovered in the main lines, 63 leaks associated with fire hydrants, freeze proof hose bibs, water meters, etc., and 33 leaks inside buildings. Over two thousand acoustic measurements were made in order to obtain these results.

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Hinckley, Ted C., and Erwin N. Thompson. "Pavific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905-1980." Military Affairs 52, no. 3 (July 1988): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1988255.

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Cooney, Catherine M. "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allows wetlands to go unprotected, GAO finds." Environmental Science & Technology 40, no. 1 (January 2006): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es087193r.

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Gagnet, Eric M., John M. Hoemann, and James S. Davidson. "Assessment of resistance definitions used for blast analysis of unreinforced masonry walls." International Journal of Protective Structures 8, no. 1 (March 2017): 125–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041419617697518.

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Over recent decades, three distinct methods have evolved that are currently being used to generate resistance functions for single-degree-of-freedom analyses of unreinforced masonry walls subjected to blast loading. The degree of differences in these resistance definitions depends on whether the wall is assumed to be simply supported or whether compression arching forces result from rotation restraint at the supports. The first method originated in the late 1960s as a result of both experimental and analytical research sponsored by the US Department of Defense. That method, referred to as the Wiehle method, is the basis of Unified Facilities Criteria 3-340-02 and other derived analytical software such as the Wall Analysis Code developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center. The second method is based on elastic mechanics and an assumed linear decay function that follows and is the basis of the widely used Single-Degree-of-Freedom Blast Effects Design Spreadsheets software distributed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Protective Design Center. The third method is largely based on concrete and masonry behavioral theories developed by Paulay and Priestly in the early 1990s. This article systematically compares the resistance methodologies for arching and non-arching scenarios, demonstrates the implications by plugging the disparate resistance functions into blast load single-degree-of-freedom models, compares the analytical results to full-scale blast test results, and offers conclusions about the accuracy and efficacies of each method.

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Mighetto, Lisa. "Salmon, Science, and Politics: Writing History for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Public Historian 17, no. 4 (1995): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3378381.

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Rosenbaum, Sara. "When Public Health Meets Market Forces: Rapanos V U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Public Health Reports 121, no. 6 (November 2006): 769–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335490612100618.

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Cardwell, Hal, Alexey Voinov, and Norman Starler. "The Energy-Water Nexus: Potential Roles for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 143, no. 1 (December 2009): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704x.2009.00064.x.

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Sharp, Michael K., Yazmin Seda-Sanabria, and Enrique E. Matheu. "Recent Efforts on Blast Damage Mitigation for Dams." Applied Mechanics and Materials 82 (July 2011): 428–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.82.428.

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This paper describes collaborative research efforts conducted between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USACE, through its U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), has focused efforts on the development of a collaborative research program to address technical gaps related to risk and blast mitigation for dams. These research efforts involve experimental and analytical tasks designed to improve blast damage prediction capabilities for dams, navigation locks, and levee systems resulting from vehicle and waterborne delivery scenarios. The outcomes from these efforts can inform USACE’s priorities, which include refining the current understanding of the effects of potential attacks, the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of its critical assets to various threat conditions, and the local and regional consequences of those attacks in order to develop appropriate protective measures and recovery technologies.

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Tingle, Jeb S., and Steve L. Webster. "Corps of Engineers Design of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Unpawed Roads." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1849, no. 1 (January 2003): 193–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1849-21.

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers design procedure was reviewed to validate the existing criteria for geotextile-reinforced unpaved roads and to modify the criteria for the addition of stiff biaxial geogrids. Geogrid stiffness here refers to products demonstrating good torsional rigidity and aperture stability. The theoretical basis for the existing design procedure was reviewed to ensure that appropriate assumptions were used to derive the current design method. Historical test section results were used to validate the empirical bearing-capacity factors, Nc used for unreinforced and geotextile-reinforced base materials. In addition, an empirical bearing-capacity factor for geogrid reinforcement was derived to modify the existing design procedure for both geotextile and geogrid use. The relevant theory used in the development of the existing design method to establish the basis for the analyses is described. Previously unpublished test section results are presented and used to calculate experimental bearing-capacity factors, and the calculated factors are compared with the theoretical values used in the existing procedure. The results of the analyses support the use of the existing design procedure’s bearing-capacity factor for unreinforced sections; the existing bearing-capacity factor for geotextile-reinforced unpaved roads appears to be unconservative for the conditions of the full-scale test section presented. Finally, a bearing-capacity factor for the use of a geogrid and geotextile combination is recommended for modification of the existing Corps of Engineers design procedure.

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Cass, Ed. "The Federal Engineer/Damsites to Missile Sites: A History of the Omaha District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Technology and Culture 27, no. 4 (October 1986): 889. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105365.

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Adler, William D. "State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Early United States: The Case of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers." Studies in American Political Development 26, no. 2 (August 13, 2012): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x12000053.

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This article reconsiders early American state capacity through a close examination of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. The topographical corps, a bureau in the antebellum War Department, developed a form of conditional bureaucratic autonomy far earlier than recognized in previous scholarship, giving it a central role in shaping national economic development policies, especially in the nation's periphery. Unlike robust bureaucratic autonomy, such as that described by Daniel Carpenter (2001, 2010; see footnote 4), conditional autonomy is highly contingent and can quickly fracture if the surrounding environment changes. The long-serving chief of the corps, Col. John J. Abert, shaped the opinions of his supposed principals by managing the ideas, information, and proposals directed to them. When faced with challenges, the corps proved to be a flexible organization that adapted its methods to accomplish its preferred ultimate goals using different instruments. In the end, however, the corps' autonomy was threatened when it became involved in the sectional politics surrounding the potential building of a transcontinental railroad line. Once the corps lost several of the conditions supporting its autonomy, its downfall was swift. This article thus joins a recent wave of scholarship highlighting strengths within the early American state by foregrounding the role of the armed forces in statebuilding.

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Khalili, Laleh. "The infrastructural power of the military: The geoeconomic role of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula." European Journal of International Relations 24, no. 4 (November 30, 2017): 911–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066117742955.

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In analysing the role of the US in the global expansion of capitalist relations, most critical accounts see the US military’s invasion and conquest of various states as paving the way for the arrival of US businesses and capitalist relations. However, beyond this somewhat simplified image, and even in peacetime, the US military has been a major geoeconomic actor that has wielded its infrastructural power via its US Army Corps of Engineers’ overseas activities. The transformation of global economies in the 20th century has depended on the capitalisation of the newly independent states and the consolidation of liberal capitalist relations in the subsequent decades. The US Army Corps of Engineers has not only extended lucrative contracts to private firms (based not only in the US and host country, but also in geopolitically allied states), but also, and perhaps most important, has itself established a grammar of capitalist relations. It has done so by forging both physical infrastructures (roads, ports, utilities and telecommunications infrastructures) and virtual capitalist infrastructures through its practices of contracting, purchasing, design, accounting, regulatory processes and specific regimes of labour and private property ownership.

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Hird, John A. "The Political Economy of Pork: Project Selection at The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." American Political Science Review 85, no. 2 (June 1991): 429–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1963168.

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In previous studies of distributive politics scholars have investigated legislative influence without accounting for the policies' independent merits. As a result, they have failed to include a plausible explanation of the counterfactual (i.e., which projects would have been funded in the absence of congressional committee influence), which has led to invalid inferences regarding legislative influence. The model of distributive politics is reformulated to account for an assumed efficient and/or equitable project allocation in the absence of legislative influence. Using data from proposed Army Corps of Engineers' projects and the funding recommendations of three institutions, the findings indicate that pork barrel politics indeed exists and imposes significant efficiency costs but that both equity and economic efficiency play prominent roles in the decision-making process as well. Cost-benefit analysis is seen to play a constructive role by improving the efficiency of project choice; and the corps's cost-benefit analysis guidelines are beneficial from the agency's organizational perspective, as well.

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Robinson, M. C. "The Relationship Between the Army Corps Of Engineers and the Environmental Community, 1920-1969." Environmental History Review 13, no. 1 (March 1, 1989): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3984534.

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Shallat, Todd. "Engineering Policy: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Historical Foundation of Power." Public Historian 11, no. 3 (1989): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3378610.

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Lillycrop, Jeff, and John R. Banic. "Advancements in the U.S. army corps of engineers hydrographic survey capabilities: The SHOALS system." Marine Geodesy 15, no. 2-3 (January 1992): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490419209388053.

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Cox, James M., and Donald D. Tippett. "An Analysis of Team Rewards at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville Center." Engineering Management Journal 15, no. 4 (December 2003): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10429247.2003.11415221.

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Reuss, Martin. "Engineers, Science, and the Public Interest: Water Resources Planning in the Atchafalaya Basin." Journal of Policy History 3, no. 3 (July 1991): 282–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006308.

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The work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Atchafalaya (Uh-CHAFF-a-LIE-uh) Basin in southern Louisiana is an especially revealing example of the problems facing government agencies trying to balance conflicting economic and environmental demands. The basin contains precious wetlands and wildlife and major economic resources such as oil, gas, timber, and fish. It is also the center of one of the most hydrologically dynamic areas in the world. For the Corps, the basin serves as a vital part of the flood-control system for the entire lower Mississippi Valley. The problem was to reconcile this purpose with the continuing need for resource exploitation and increased concern for protecting the environment. In the Atchafalaya Basin, science proved its limitations and the art of politics its worth. This was a natural laboratory that taught engineers and environmentalists alike.

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Cialone, Mary A., Jane M. Smith, Julie D. Rosati, Michael L. Follum, Chris Massey, Andrew J. Condon, and Robert C. Thomas. "USACE PREPARATION AND RESPONSE TO 2017 HURRICANES HARVEY, IRMA, AND MARIA." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36 (December 30, 2018): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.risk.83.

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The year 2017 was an extremely active hurricane season with five hurricanes that reached major hurricane strength (Category 3 or higher) on the United States (U.S) or the Caribbean coast. This paper focuses on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) preparation and response to the three most destructive events (Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria). Each of these storms posed unique challenges to the people and infrastructure in its path.

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Lee, Charles E. "RECENT ADVANCES IN COASTAL STRUCTURE DESIGN." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 8 (January 29, 2011): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v8.23.

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The type and scope of work accomplished and responsibility and authority of the office to which he is attached is indicative of the interests of an author and of the information available to him. It is therefore pertinent to cover in this general section a summary of the responsibility and the delegated authority of the Corps of Engineers as regards Coastal Engineering. The subject of recent advances in coastal structures is quite broad and complex and modern design practice incorporates old and new findings. This paper discusses various aspects of proper modern design of breakwaters and jetties with special attention to newer findings, their proper application and the means by which the findings were made. The Corps has the responsibility for the planning, investigation, design and construction of Federal civil works navigation projects. This consists generally of harbor and channel works. Their responsibility extends to the control of all works, private or governmental, to assure that navigation will not be adversely affected. They are also charged with the responsibility of planning, investigation, design and construction of Federal civil works projects involving shore protection from wave and currents, protection from effects of hurricane, tsunamis and tidal flooding, and of beach erosion control. The accomplishment of such a mission therefore includes research of an applied nature to permit advancement in knowledge and technique. Most of this research is based on small scale model studies accomplished at the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and at the laboratory of the Corps of Engineers Beach Erosion Board in Washington, D. C. In addition a limited number of prototype studies are being initiated in the charge of the staffs of various District Engineers.

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Lancaster, H. Martin, and Stanley G. Genega. "The Paradox of Federal Infrastructure Programs: Aging Infrastructure and Constrained Budgets." Public Works Management & Policy 1, no. 2 (October 1996): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087724x9600100201.

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America's future federal public works policies must address the twin realities of falling budgets and rising demand for services from public works infrastructure. Federal domestic discretionary spending—nondefense and nonentitlement funding, including most federal public works programs—is shrinking while physical facilities funded by that spending are growing older. Public managers are thus shifting their focus from building new structures to maintaining old ones and improving service delivery to suit present needs. This article reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' response to these changes, especially the national Operations and Maintenance Program Plan of Improvement and the intergovernmental, Corps-facilitated effort known as the Federal Infrastructure Strategy (FIS) Program. The Corps' response to the new infrastructure policy paradigm is a particularly relevant case study.

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Dunham, James W. "REFRACTION AND DIFFRACTION DIAGRAMS." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 1 (May 12, 2010): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v1.4.

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The use of diagrams to indicate the effects of refraction and diffraction of ordinary wind waves and swell in offshore areas is by no means an innovation in coastal and harbor engineering. Refraction diagrams in particular have been used in various forms by engineers in the United States and in Europe for more than a decade. The principles and procedures for constructing refraction and diffraction diagrams have been developed by academic research and investigation. The purposes of this paper are (1) to review briefly these principles and procedures, and (2) to describe their practical application by the Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, Department of the Army.

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Cuccoli, Lorenzo. "Le armi dotte e la Rivoluzione francese: riformismo, elitismo e meritocrazia." SOCIETÀ E STORIA, no. 135 (July 2012): 41–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ss2012-135003.

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The article focuses on the evolution of the military technical corps in France between the mid-Eighteenth century and the Restoration, and proposes for them the notion of "State corporation". This phase - an intermediate one between the corps de métier and the corps d'État - was attained first by the engineers and the artillery. These corps selected their officers by competitive examination, which functioned both as an intellectual filter and a social one. The distinction generated by this filter - nurtured by an elitist approach based on meritocracy was not overridden by the Revolution. On the contrary, it was further consecrated by the creation of the École polytechnique, which soon became controlled by the military technical corps. The "State corporation" model was then extended through the École polytechnique to the geographical engineers and the civil public services. The institutional conflicts among the technical corps during the National Constituent Assembly and those between them and the École polytechnique (1794-1799) are analyzed along these interpretative lines. While the former show their corporative resistance of geographical engineers in the name of equality, the latter bring out their corporative resistance to external education of candidates.

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Holle, Chas G. "SEDIMENTATION AT THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 2 (January 1, 2000): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v2.10.

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Sedimentation it the mouth of the Mississippi River is a phenomenon that has been under study by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, during the past 120 years. The primary objective in these investigations has been the determination of the most economical method of maintaining required navigation depths through the Mississippi River Passes for oceangoing vessels that serve the Ports of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and indirectly the vast Mississippi Valley river traffic.

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Bain, Don M., Stacey Underwood, Thomas Laczo, Michael J. Dowling, and David Kriebel. "RAPID COASTAL ADAPTATION ASSESSMENT AT CITY OF ANNAPOLIS." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36 (December 30, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.risk.41.

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Alerted to the increased flood risks posed by sea level rise and potential storm surge riding in on a rising sea, the City of Annapolis is eager to better understand the extent of its coastline at risk, adaptation alternatives and typical costs previously experienced when such alternatives are applied. A rapid assessment method is developed and applied to characterize the coastline, survey the coastline for current and potential adaptation measures and develop a portfolio of potential actions with representative costs. A rapid assessment team is assembled consisting of private sector engineers and architects, an engineering professor from the U.S. Naval Academy and engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This paper reports on the method, activities and results to better inform stakeholders of increasing coastal flood risk and potential investment requirements for adaptation.

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Caldwell, Lynton K., and Martin Reuss. "Shaping Environmental Awareness: The United States Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board 1970-1980." Technology and Culture 26, no. 2 (April 1985): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3104374.

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Grisoli, William T. "The Importance of the Integrated Ocean Observing System to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Marine Technology Society Journal 45, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.45.1.7.

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Reif, Molly K., Jennifer M. Wozencraft, Lauren M. Dunkin, Charlene S. Sylvester, and Christopher L. Macon. "A review of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers airborne coastal mapping in the Great Lakes." Journal of Great Lakes Research 39 (2013): 194–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2012.11.002.

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Coates, Kenneth S., and William R. Morrison. "Soldier-Workers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946." Pacific Historical Review 62, no. 3 (August 1, 1993): 273–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3640932.

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Ruttinger, George D. "Mini-trial agreement between the united states army corps of engineers and tenn tom constructors." Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation 3, no. 8 (August 1985): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alt.3810030804.

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Needham, Jason, Woodrow Fields, and William Lehman. "The US Army Corps of Engineers Scalable Approach to Estimating Loss of Life from Flooding." E3S Web of Conferences 7 (2016): 06003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160706003.

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