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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cairo, Illinois"”.
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… Black Power Movement at its central flashpoint, Cairo, Illinois, a city identified by contemporaries as the site of the nation’s “longest protracted struggle” for racial justice. This dissertation explores how activists working within Cairo’s leading Black Power organization, the United Front, …
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Quasi-isolated highway bridges: influence of bearing anchorage strength on seismic performance
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) commonly uses elastomeric bearings to accommodate thermal deformations in bridges, and these bearings also have potential utility in seismic events. IDOT has developed an earthquake resisting system (ERS) using the displacement capacity of typical …
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Transient Seepage Analysis for Levees and Dams: Numerical and Monitoring Approaches
… along the Mississippi River just north of Cairo, Illinois. The other embankment was part of a catchment basin at the Engineer Research and Development Center located in Vicksburg, MS. Tensiometer and porous block sensors were used to monitor the pore water pressures in the embankments. It …
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Seismic performance assessment of quasi-isolated highway bridges with seat-type abutments
… In recent years, bridge engineers of the Illinois Department of Transportation developed an innovative ""quasi-isolation"" strategy to improve bridge seismic resilience in geographical regions with low-to-moderate seismicity, such as the Midwestern United States. Different from …
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Assessment of modeling sensitivity for nonlinear seismic analysis of highway bridges in Illinois
… between the superstructure and substructure. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has focused on this second isolation approach, however considering only conventional bearings, in order to formulate a cost-effective “quasi-isolation” concept targeted to the seismic hazard and typical …