This design is supported at one end only with a fixed connection.
What is a cantilever?
100
This is what the acronym sUAS stands for.
What is a Small Unmanned Aerial System? (Chris Conrad and Michael Klatt's presentation)
100
These are common signs that a property or facility stores or in some other way manages liquids or solids.
What are drums and/or barrels?
100
This is the time that a piece of construction equipment is not working because it is undergoing repairs or maintenance.
What is downtime?
100
This is America’s oldest professional engineering society.
What is the ASCE?
200
This is the numerical difference between the liquid and plastic limits of soil.
What is the plasticity index?
200
This is the name of the TVA Lock that collapsed.
What is the Wheeler Lock? (Michael Arles's presentation)
200
This is usually a tube bent in the form of a "U" containing a fluid of known specific gravity.
What is a manometer?
200
This is what many soils are subject to when they undergo changes in moisture content.
What is expansion and/or shrinkage?
200
The TN Section of American Society of Civil Engineers is located within this Region, along with several other states.
What is Region 4?
300
This is the average depth of frost penetration in Middle Tennessee.
What is 15 inches (+/- 2 inches)?
300
This is the newly installed ASCE TN Section President.
Who is Ashley Smith? (Breakfast Presentation)
300
This is the rate of water movement through a soil matrix and is greater than the Darcy velocity because the flow area is reduced.
What is seepage or pore velocity?
300
These are what the owner and contractor should thoroughly familiarize themselves with prior to the start of trench excavations. Hint: Think Safety!
What are OSHA Requirements/Regulations/Specifications?
300
This is the current President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (Nationally).
Who is Mark W. Woodson?
400
This Level of Service (LOS) allows little freedom for driver maneuverability, flow is becoming unstable, and operating speeds will stay tolerable.
What is LOS "D"?
400
These are the "4x4" characteristics of TDOT Class "X" Concrete Mix.
What are 4,000 psi in 4 hours? (Ted Kniazewycz's presentation)
400
This is a continuous process whereby water is transported from ocean and land surfaces to the atmosphere and then falls again in the form of precipitation.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
400
This can provide a viable alternative to the usual soil backfill, particularly where the native soil is not suitable or installation speed is critical.
What is Lime-Treated Base (LTB) or Cement-Treated Base (CTB) or Slurry Backfill?
400
This is the current Region 4 Moderator of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Who is Ted Kniazewycz?
500
This equipment can be used to continuously settle out solids as a sludge.
What is a clarifier?
500
This is why the MTA/RTA isn't proposing to operate commuter trains on CSX freight rail right of way.
What is that CSX is not inclined due to safety concerns and possible disruptions in freight rail traffic? (Steve Bland's presentation)
500
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act) and SARA (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act) were enacted in what years, in order.
What are 1980 and 1986?
500
This product is termed hydraulic because it reacts with water and hardens under pressure.
What is Portland Cement.
500
This is the current approximate total membership (+/- 100) of the TN Section of ASCE.