Pipeline Accidents Raise Engineering Questions

Sharing existing pipelines for optical fiber and FTTH

On Shear Layers in a Rotating Fluid, report of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Monash University, Australia, 1978.
Corner Effects in Free Shear Layers in Rotating Flow, (with A.F. Bennett, Zeitschrift Fur Angewandte Mathematik and Physik), Vol. 31 pp. 533-555, 1980.
Analyses of Flow Failures of Mine Tailings Impoundments, (with J.M. Duncan and H.B. Seed), report of the Geotechnical Engineering Division of the University of California, Berkeley, August 1980.
Summary of Research on Analysis of Flow Failures of Mine Tailings Impoundments, (with J. Duncan and H.B. Seed), proceedings of the U.S. Bureau of Mines Technology Transfer Conference, pp. 54-61, Denver, July 1981.
Flow Failures of Some Mine Tailings Dams, Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 12, 1981, pp. 153-166.
A State-of-the-Art Review of Expansive Soil Treatment Methods, (with G.T. Rice), report of the Texas A&M Research Foundation, September 1981.
An Investigation of Two Case Histories of Chemical Treatment of Expansive Soil in Denver, Colorado, (with M. Picornell), report of the Texas A&M Research Foundation, September 1981.
A Preliminary Investigation of the Influence of Soil Conditions on the Performance of Guardrail Posts, (with E.T. Addicks), research report from the Texas Transportation Institute, March 1982.
Finite Element Analyses of Plastic Pipe-Soil Interaction, (with F. Osequeda), research report from the Texas Transportation Institute, April 1982.
Initial Value Problems in Soil Mechanics, (with M. Lamborn), paper presented at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, May 1982.
A Viscous Model for Flow Slides of Tailings Dams, proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 691-698, May 1982.
Influence of Corner Transport in Shear Layers in the Stewartson’s Split-Disk Problem, presented at the Ninth U.S. Congress in Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 1982.
Analyses of Earthquake-Induced Flow Slide Movements, proceedings of the International Conference in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Southampton, England, pp. 759-767, July 1982.
Influence of the Flexibility of Test Plate on the Results of Cable-Jacking Tests, (with A.P.S. Selvadurai), proceedings of the 23rd Symposium in Rock Mechanics, Berkeley, California, pp. 814-823, August 1982.
Stress Reduction in Flexible Box Culverts Due to Overlays of Geofabric Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geotextiles, pp. 814-823, August 1982.
The Influence of Soil Conditions on Performance of Guardrail Posts, (with E.T. Addicks and J.F. Dewey), Texas Transportation Researcher, p. 18(2), 1982.
Fundamental Aspects of Flow Characteristics of Liquefied Mine Tailings Impoundments, paper presented at the First International Meeting of the Society of Mining Engineers, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 82-396, September 1982.
Seismic Stability of Tailings Disposed by the Thickened Discharge System, paper presented at the ASCE Fall Convention in New Orleans, pp. 82-539, 201-226, October 1982.
Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses of Plastic Pipes, (with F. Osequeda and J.W. Horn), paper presented at the ASCE Fall Convention in New Orleans, pp. 82-511, October 1982.
Dam-Break Studies for Mine Tailings Impoundments, proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Uranium Mill Tailings Management, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 39-53, November 1982.
Deflection of Flexible Culverts Due to Backfill Compaction, (with J. M. Duncan), Transportation Research Record No. 878, pp. 10-17, December 1982.
Analyses of Flow Failures of Mine Tailings Impoundments, (with M. Duncan and H.B. Seed), in Journal of the Geotechnical Division of ASCE, 109, GT2, pp. 150-171, February 1983.
Investigation of Flow Failures of Mine Tailings Impoundments, (with J.M. Duncan and H.B. Seed), in the Journal of the Geotechnical Division of ASCE, 109, GT2, pp. 172-189, February 1983.
Influence of Corner Boundary Layers in Rotation Flows, in Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE, 109, EMl, pp. 244-262, February 1983.
Effects of Fluid Resistance in the Mine Waste Dam Break Problems, International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 7(1), 1983.
Preliminary Analyses of the Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts Under Backfill Loads, (with M.P. Gardner), report of the Texas Transportation Institute to SDHPT and FHWA, April 1983.
Investigation of Flow Characteristics of Mine Tailings in a Potential Dam-Break Flood, proceedings of the Conference on Recent Developments in Rock Mechanics, Sydney, Australia, 1983.
Influence of Excavation Sequence on the Stresses in Open Pit Mine Slopes, (with P.W. Jayawickrama), proceedings of the 24th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, College Station, Texas, pp. 610-61l, June 1983.
A Study of the Soil-Structure Interaction Behavior of Highway Guardrail Posts, (with J.F. Dewey, T.J. Hirsh and H.E. Ross), report to the Texas Highway Department and FHWA, July 1983.
An Investigation of the Effectiveness of a Chemical Treatment of Expansive Soils, (with M. Picornel), proceedings of the Seventh Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering, Haifa, Israel, August 1983.
The Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts Under Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Live Loads, (with M.P. Gardner), report to the Texas Highway Department and FHWA, September 1983.
Geofabric Stabilization of Soft Backfill Materials for Plastic Sewer Pipe Installations, proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Pipelines in Adverse Environments, II, San Diego, California, pp. 188-198, November 1983.
Characteristics of Base and Subgrade Drainage in Pavements, (with R. Liu and R.L. Lytton), in Transportation Research Record, 945, pp. 1-9, 1984.
Soil-Foundation Interaction Behavior of Highway Guardrail Posts, (with J.F. Dewey, T.J. Hirsch, H.E. Ross and H. Cooner), Transportation Research Record 970, pp. 37-46, 1984.
Analysis and Design of Large Diameter Plastic Sewer Pipes, (with A.M. Abdel-Magid), preprint of the Spring ASCE Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1984.
Significance of Pipe-Soil Stiffness Ratio in Flexible Pipe Design, (with A.M. Abdel-Magid), preprint of the CWPCA Annual Meeting San Jose, California, May 1984.
Dynamic Response of Tailings Dams to Earthquakes, proceedings of 8th World Earthquake Conference in San Francisco, California, July 1984.
Importance of Relative Pipe-Soil Stiffness in Plastic Pipe Design, (with A.M. Abdel-Magid), special technical publication entitled Pipeline Materials and Design of the Journal of the Transportation Engineering of ASCE, pp. 66-92, October 1984.
Soil-Structure Interaction Behavior of Reinforced Box Culverts, preprint of the 64th Transportation Research Board Meeting, January 1985.
Large vs. Small Surface Impoundments, (with G.B. Evans, J. Sai, R. Shiver and D.C. Anderson), proceedings of the 11th Annual Research Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, pp. 332-339, April 1985.
A Three-Dimensional Flood Routing Model for the Flow Analyses of Mine Tailings, (with D.R. Rokohl and L. Shan), report to the National Science Foundation, July 1985.
Investigation of the Stress-Strain Behavior of Partly Saturated Soils, report to the Air Force, July 1985.
Consequences of Seismically Induced Potential Flow Slides of Sediments at Tarbela Dam, proceedings of Session 7B of the 11th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering, San Francisco, California, August 1985.
Advances in Underground Pipeline Engineering, Editor of this referred volume of the Proceedings of the International ASCE Specialty Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 610 pages, August 1985.
Shear Strength and Structural Integrity of Dikes, paper presented at the Hazardous Waste Management Institute of U.S. EPA at the Wisconsin Center, Madison, Wisconsin, November 1985.
Hazardous Waste Management Training Institute Manual, (with D. Viste) published the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, November 1985.
Results of a Preliminary Laboratory Investigation of Stress-Strain Behavior of Unsaturated Soils, Report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, January 1986.
U.S. EPA Regional Training Centers in Hazardous Waste Management, (with R.J. Knox), 8th Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Waste Management, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 81-89, February 1986.
Site Characterization and Structural Integrity of Dikes, (with E. R. Hanna), in National Conference and Exhibition on Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 190-197, March 1986.
Design, Leak Detection and Leak Prevention for Underground Storage Tanks, (with J.B. Hutchison), in National Conference and Exhibition on Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 278-291, March 1986.
Procedures for Settlement Predictions on Sands, (with R. Boehm), a Special Technical Publication of the Journal of Geotechnical Engineering of ASCE, entitled Settlements of Shallow Foundations in Cohesionless Soils, pp. 1-23, April 1986.
Load Reduction Factors for Buried Clay Pipes, (with N. Jiang), paper on the pipeline division of the Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, pp. 236-249, May 1986.
Effects of Embedment on the Selection and Performance of Rigid and Flexible Pipes, (with B.A. Boldon), in the Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, Vol. 112, No. 5, pp. 507-524, September 1986.
Computer-Aided Instruction in Geotechnical Engineering, (with W.E. Saleira), paper on the proceedings of the Conference on Engineering Education for the Year Madison, Wisconsin, October 1986.
Underground Sewer Pipe Design Practice in Europe and the U.S., (with E.J. Sikora), presented at the Water Pollution Control Federation Meeting, Los Angeles, October 1986.
Geotechnical Analyses on Micro-Computers, (with W.S. Ethiyajeevakaruna), proceedings of the 4th National Conference on Micro-Computers in Civil Engineering, Orlando, Florida, November 1986.
An Investigation of Stress-Strain and Suction Behavior of Unsaturated Sands, (with E.R. Hanna), Report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, December 1986.
Investigation of Contamination at a Landfill in Wisconsin, (with E.J. Ethiyajeevakaruna and Joe Winch), proceedings of the Conference on Geotechnical and Geohydrological Aspects of Waste Management, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 51-65, February 1987.
Considerations of Longitudinal Stresses and Strains in the Design of Buried Reinforced Plastic Mortar Pipes, (with A.M. Abdel-Magid), Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, Vol. l13, No. 3, pp. 315-331, May 1987.
Hydrogeologic Investigations at a Superfund Site in Wisconsin, (with Joe Winch, and W.S. Ethiyajeevakaruna), ASCE Specialty conference on Geotechnical Aspects of Waste Disposal, Refereed using the same standards as the Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1987.
Behavior and Design of Buried Very Flexible Plastic Pipes, (with W.S. Ethiyajeevakaruna and B.A. Boldon), Journal of Transportation Engineering ASCE, Vol. 114, No. 6, pp. 1-16, November 1987.
Design of Buried Very Flexible Plastic Pipes Under Traffic Loads, (with Ethiyajeevakaruna), paper submitted for possible publication in the Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, March 1987.
New Bedding Factors for Vitrified Clay Pipes, (with N. Jiang), in Transportation Research Record, 1987.
Design of Siphon Penstocks for Low Head Hydros, (with T. Hampton), paper on the Proceedings of the ASCE Conference WATERPOWER 87, Portland, Oregon, August 1987.
New Design Procedures for Vitrified Clay Pipes, (with W.E. Saleira and N. Jiang), report to the National Clay Pipe Institute, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, September 1987.
Underground Pipelines Design, (with B. J. Schrock), Seminar Notes published from April to September 1987.
Study of Fundamental Behavior and Strain Rate Effects of Partly Saturated Sands, (with M. Thiyagaram, R. Boehm and E. Hanna), paper on the proceedings of the Soil Mechanics Seminar Sponsored by the AFOSR at MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 99-101, September 1987.
Finite Element Analyses. of the Response of HDPE Pipes Under Backfill and Traffic Loads Using Microcomputers, (with W.E. Saleira), paper on the proceedings of the 10th Fuel Gas Plastic Pipe Symposium, New Orleans, October 1987.
Undrained Stress-Strain Behavior of Unsaturated Sands, (with R.G. Boehm), report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, October 1987.
Micro-Mechanics Models for Unsaturated, Saturated and Dry Sands, (with M. Thiyagaram) report to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, October 1987.
Deflections and Strains in HDPE Pipes Under Traffic Loads, (with W.E. Saleira and K.K. Kienow), paper on the proceedings of the International Conference on Pipeline Construction, Hamburg, Germany, November 1987.
Design Procedures for Underground Clay Pipes in the United States and Europe, (with H. Ben Hamida), paper on the proceedings of the International Conference on Pipeline Construction, Hamburg, Germany, November 1987.
Design of Underground Pipelines and Storage Tanks Using Personal Computers, (with W.E. Saleira), paper on the proceedings of the ASCE Specialty conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Alexandria, Virginia, March 1988.
Soil-Structure Interaction Analyses on Micro-Computers, (with W.E. Saleira), proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Innsbruck, Austria, April 1988.
An Investigation of Field Performance of Reinforced Plastic Mortar Pipes, (with W.E. Saleira and B. Abdel-Magid), paper on the proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Pipeline Infrastructure, pp. 148-157, Boston, June 1988.
Priority Integrated Pipe Evaluation, (with B. Kallas), paper on the proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Pipeline Infrastructure, pp. 1-9, Boston, June 1988.
Underground Storage Tank Program and Its Implications, (with J. B. Hutchison), paper on the proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Pipeline Infrastructure, pp. 381-390, Boston, June 1988.
Pipeline Materials and Design, notes for the seminar sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Boston, June 1988.
Comparison of Marston to German Design Methods for Clay Pipes, (with H. Ben Hamida), Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, Vol. ll4, No. 3, pp. 420-434, July 1988.
Forces on the Jennings Randolph Dam Penstock Inside the Outlet Tunnel and Design Considerations, (with M. Thiyagaram, W. Saleira and C. Jaramillo), proceedings of the International Conference on Small Hydro, Toronto, Canada, July 1988.
Analysis and Design of RPM and Other Composite Underground Pipelines, (with Thiyagaram, W.E. Saleira and A.M. Abdel-Magid), Journal of Transportation Engineering of ASCE, pp. 219-231, May 1989.
Design Considerations for a Penstock Located in an Outlet Tunnel at the Jennings Randolph Dam in West Virginia, (with C. A. Jaramillo and W.E. Saleira), proceedings of the ASCE Conference WATERPOWER 89, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 1989.
Hydraulic Model Tests of Flow Around Penstock Suspended Inside the Tunnel for Design of a Small Hydro, (with C.A. Jaramillo), proceedings of the ASCE Conference WATERPOWER 89, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 1989.
An Evaluation of the Applicability and Cost of Polyester Resin and Cementitious Grouts for the Installation of Rock Anchors at Hydro Projects, proceedings of the ASCE Conference WATERPOWER 89, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 1989.
Advances in Underground Pipeline Materials and Design in Europe and North America, paper on the proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Pipeline Design and Installation, Las Vegas, March 1990.
Advances in Pipeline Materials and Design, in Civil Engineering, July 1990.
Evaluation of Thermoplastic Drainage Pipe Designs in Europe and North America, proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference in Drainage and Irrigation, Honolulu, July 1991.
Prediction and Control of Sulfide Induced Corrosion in Concrete Sewer Infrastructure and Rehabilitation Techniques, proceedings of ASTM Symposium on Corrosion Forms and Control for Infrastructure, November 1991.
Developments in Microtunneling Techniques and Jacking for Sewer Construction, 65th Annual Conference of Water Environment Federation, September 1992.
An Evaluation of Fiberglass Pipe Made by Three Manufacturing Processes for Use in Water Transmission Projects, proceedings of ASCE Infrastructure Conference II, August 1993.
Analysis and Design of Direct Burial Sections of San Diego County Water Authority’s Pipeline Extension, proceedings of ASCE Infrastructure Conference II, August 1993.
New Modulus of Soil Reaction — E’ Values for Buried Thermoplastic Pipe Design, (with P.A. Jaramillo), proceedings of ASCE Hydraulics of Pipelines Conference, Phoenix, June 1994.
Failure of Large Diameter High-Density Polyethylene Sewer Pipe — A Case in Point, (with J. Conner), proceedings of ASCE Hydraulics of Pipelines Conference, Phoenix, June 1994.
Advances in Underground Pipeline Engineering, (with Menaka Jeyapalan), proceedings of the 2nd International Conference sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Seattle, June 1995.
Advances in Use of Fiberglass Pipe in Desalination and Power Plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, proceedings of the International on Desalination and Reuse of Water, Abu Dhabi, October 1995.
Design and Construction of Pipelines with Fiberglass Material, proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pipeline Construction, Ghent, Belgium, October 1995.
Pipe-Soil Interaction Principles in Design of Microtunneling Projects, No Dig, Toronto, 1995.
Design and Construction of High Pressure Gas Transmission Pipeline by Directional Boring Method, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Burlington, Vermont, August 1996.
Design and Construction of High Pressure Gas Transmission Pipeline by Directional Boring Method, No Dig, Seattle, May 1997.
Pipeline Market in U.S. — 23 Billion Dollars for 1997! Would You Like Some of This Work? Keynote address, Pipeline Conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia, October 1997.
Recent Developments in Pipeline Design Standards in U.S., Keynote address, Pipeline Conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia, October 1997.
Pipeline Market in U.S. — 20 Billion Dollars for 1998! Would You Like Some of This Work? DCCA Symposium, La Jolla, CA, April 1998.
Unified Design Methodology for Most Pipeline Materials, (with Sri K. Rajah), ASCE Pipeline Conference, San Diego, August 1998.
PCCP Design Check Using C304-92 in a Spreadsheet, (with Sri K. Rajah), ASCE Pipeline Conference, San Diego, August 1998.
Pipeline Market in U.S. — 20 Billion Dollars for 1998! Would You Like Some of This Work? ASCE Pipeline Conference, San Diego, August, 1998.
Role of Surge and Mitigation in PCCP Failures, (with Sri K. Rajah), ASCE Pipeline Conference, San Diego, August 1998.
Unified Design Methodology for Most No-Dig Pipeline Materials, Pipeline Technology Conference, Brugge, Belgium, May 2000.
Growing Pipeline Market in America —20 Billion Dollars for 2000, Pipeline Technology Conference, Brugge, Belgium, May 2000.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, 6th International Pipeline Construction Show 2000, Hamburg, Germany, June 2000.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, July 2000.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, No-Dig Engineering, August 2000.
In the Pipeline, Opinion Column in Resource published by the Society for engineering in agricultural, food, and biological systems, August 2000.
Evaluating No-Dig Companies for Potential Investment, Paper in 18th International No-Dig Conference, Perth, Australia, October 2000.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, Parts I, II, III, and IV in www. Publicworks.com(community of Verticalnet) June 2000.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, Parts I, II, III, and IV in www. Wateronline.com(community of Verticalnet) June 2000.
Fiber Optic Cables Inside of Sewers! Why Not? paper at UCT 2001, Houston, Texas.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, AWWA Pipeline Infrastructure Conference, Orlando, Florida, March, 2001.
CityNet Fiber in City Sewers? A Great Idea, paper in Trenchless Technology Magazine, March 2001.
How Do You Install Fiber Optic Cables in Sewers? Parts I, II, and III in Publicworks.com, March 2001.
Fiber Cables in Sanitary Sewers, Civil Engineering News, March 2001.
CityNet Fiber in City Sewers? A Great Idea, paper at NASTT, 10th annual conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 2001.
A New No-Dig Industry Named Fiber Optic Cables in Sewers in Born, paper at NASTT, 10th annual conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 2001.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, paper at NASTT, 10th annual conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 2001.
Future Outlook for Water Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, paper at AWWA Infrastructure Conference, Orlando, Florida, April 2001.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, 2nd Asian Regional Civil Engineering Conference, Tokyo, Japan, April, 2001.
Future Outlook for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Technologies, 27th World Tunnel Congress, Milan, Italy, June 2001.
Unified Design Method for Liners for Most Pipeline Rehabilitation Methods, ASCE conference, San Diego, July 2001.
Unified Design Method for Thrust Restraints for Water Pipelines and Sewer Force Mains, ASCE conference, San Diego, July 2001.
Modulus of Soil Reaction-E' Values for Pipeline Design, ASCE conference, San Diego, July 2001.
Building a Last Mile Fiber Optic Network in Sewer Systems, ASCE conference, San Diego, July 2001.
Bridging the Last Mile With Fiber Optic Cables in Sewers, IWCS 50th anniversary conference in Orlando, Florida, November 2001.
Optical Fiber Cables in Sewers 2002: What do we know? Where are we Heading? paper in UCT 2002, Jan. 14-17, Houston, Texas.
Optical Fiber Cables in Sewers Part I- Sewer Selection Criteria, paper in Trenchless Technology Magazine, March 2002.
Optical Fiber Cables in Sewers Part II- Sewer Owner's Concerns, paper in Trenchless Technology Magazine, April 2002.
Optical Fiber Cables in Sewers in the USA, paper in No Dig International, April 2002.
Optical Fiber Cables in Existing Sewers and Natural Gas Pipes, paper in No Dig conference of NASTT, Montreal, Canada, May 2002.
Developing Standards for the Deployment of Optical Fiber Cable in Underground Utility Systems-Last Mile, ASTM International Standardization News, August 2002.
Optical Fiber Cables in Existing Sewers and Natural Gas Pipes, paper in No Dig conference of ASTT, Sydney, Australia, August 2002.
Finding the Rights of Way-Alternate Methods of Optical Fiber Deployment in the Last Mile, paper at Intelligent Cities 2002, Horizon House and Telecommunications Magazine Conference, Chantilly, Virginia, September 2002.
Municipal Optical Fiber Networks in Existing Sewers May Complete the Last Mile, paper at the New England Water Environment Association Seminar, Westford, MA, October 2002.
Cables in Sewers the Way Forward, paper in Gulf Construction, October 2002.
Underground Utilities for the Last Mile: How Secure Are They? paper at the Homeland Security Executive Briefing on IT Local Network Opportunities, IGI conference, Burlington, MA, October 2002.
Optical Fiber Connections Through Existing Sewers, Water Pipes, and Natural Gas Pipes, 51st IWCS/FOCUS conference, Orlando, FL, November 2002.
Optical Fiber Connections Through Existing Sewers, and Natural Gas Pipes, Infra 2002:Mapping Out Best Practices in Urban Infrastructure conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2002.
Solving the Last Mile Bottleneck and the Fiber Glut Using Creative Business Partnerships With Existing Utility Pipe Owners, Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Conference, Honolulu, January 20-22, 2003.
Standards in the Sewers: New Efforts Help Optic Fiber Installations in Underground Utility Pipes, Outside Plant, December 2002.
Solution to Last-mile Bottleneck is Under Our Noses, in Asia.com, April 1, 2003.
Future Outlook For Pipeline Materials, Methods, and Maintenance, ASCE Pipelines Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003.
Future of America's Water is in Our Hands, ASCE Pipelines Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003.
Municipal Optical Fiber Through Existing Sewers, Storm Drains, Drinking Waterlines, and Natural Gas Pipes May Complete the Last Mile, ASCE Pipelines Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003.
Innovative Ways to Build Underground Power Cables and Communications Networks with Utility Pipe Owners, paper at Jicable, Versailles, France June 2003.
The Weakest Link: Municipal Fiber Installations May Complete the Last Mile, Outside Plant, July 2003.
Fiber Optic Cable: Spanning The Infamous Last Mile, Constructor Magazine of AGC, August 2003.
Building Optical Fiber in the Hard-to-Reach Last Mile Using New Developments, KMI’s 26th Annual Research Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, September 2003.
Last Mile Fiber Through Strategic Partnerships With Utilities and Municipalities, paper at the IWCS 52nd conference, Philadelphia, November 2003.
Creative Ways to Build Underground Power cables and Broadband networks using strategic partnerships with utility pipe owners, Best Practices in Urban Infrastructure conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2003.
Future Outlook for Pipeline Materials, Methods, and Maintenance, Best Practices in Urban Infrastructure conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2003.
Modulus of Soil Reaction-E' Values for Pipeline Design, (with Reynold K. Watkins) in ASCE, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 130, Number 1, February 2004, pp. 43-48.
Creative Ways to Build Underground Power cables and Broadband networks using strategic partnerships with utility pipe owners, American Public Power Association Engineering Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March, 2004.
Hydraulic, Structural, and Seismic Evaluation of Water Supply Conduits in Portland, (with John Plump, and S. K. Rajah), paper in ASCE Pipeline conference, San Diego, July 2004.
Creative Ways to Build Underground Power cables and Broadband networks using strategic partnerships with utility pipe owners, 3rd CECAR, Soul, Korea, August, 2004.
State of the art of pipeline rehabilitation in USA, Special Construction Forum, 3rd CECAR, Seoul, Korea, August 2004.
Strategic Sharing of Existing Underground Pipelines and Assets with Power Cables and Communication Networks, Cigre: International Council for Large Electrical Systems, 40th Bi-annual Conference, Paris, France, September, 2004.
Unified Design Method for Liners for Most Pipeline Rehabilitation Methods, in the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 131, Number 9, September 2005, pp.717-721.
Determining Whether a PCCP Meets AWWA C 304 Standard Using an Excel Spreadsheet, in PCCP Users’ Forum, Tucson, Arizona, May 23-25, 2006.
Use of Existing Structures to Speed up Deployment of FTTH, in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of FTTH Council, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2-6, 2006.
Sharing Pipelines, Tunnels, Conduits, Multipurpose Structures, and Rights of Way Among Cables, Sewers, Water Pipes, Gas Mains, Hot Water Pipes, and Heating Ducts, in the Proceedings of 55th International Wire and Cable Symposium, Providence, Rhode Island, November 12-15, 2006.
Unified Design Procedure for Thrust Restraints for Pipelines, (with S. K. Rajah) ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 133, Number 1, January, 2007.
Buried Asset Management Using Reliability Analyses, in UCT 2007, Houston, Texas, January 29-31, 2007.
Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management, book, 400+ pages, May 2007.
Network Infrastructure-Can Technology Make the Difference? Lecture at Global Water Intelligence Conference, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-2, 2007.
Investigation of the Failures of the Deep Sewers and Service Laterals in California, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.

Lessons from the Failure of Two Reclaimed Water Lines in California, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.

Lessons from the Investigation of Problems in Airport Way Sanitary Sewer in Portland, Oregon, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.

Lessons from the Investigation of the Failure of a Water Main Buried Next to 128,000 Volt Electrical Cable, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.

Making Remaining Life Predictions for Better Pipeline Asset Management, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.

Sound Baseline Geotechnical Investigation and Interpretation Offers Most Valuable Liability Management in Pipeline Projects, ASCE Pipeline Conference, Boston, July 8-11, 2007.
China Will Lead in Water and Wastewater Market Needs During 2007-17 and Technology Will Make a Difference, Lecture at the China-USA Research and Development Needs Workshop, Wuhan, China, Oct 8-10, 2007.
Making Remaining Life Predictions for Better Network Asset Management, Lecture at WEFTEC 2007, San Diego, California, Oct 14-18, 2007.