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Younger Member Forum
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 Throughout the year the Met Section Younger Member Forum (YMF) hosts several social/networking events all around New York City. This year we kicked off our social calendar on October 29th at "The Hill", located on Third Avenue, between Eas 29th and 30th Streets. This was a great event with a large turnout from younger members, many of which stayed to watch the Yankees defeat the Phillies in Game 2 of the World Series.
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Construction Group
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The rehabilitating and widening of Runway 13R-31L at JFK Airport is no small task. At 14,572 feet in length—the second longest commercial runway in North America—the "Bay Runway" will require 208,000 yards of Portland cement concrete (enough to pave the field of every stadium in the National Football League with two feet of concrete), 200,000 tons of asphalt concrete (the weight of six Titanics), and 195,000 dowel bars (enough to stretch from JFK all the way to Orient Point on the East End of Long Island).
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Geotechnical Group
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Robert B. Bittner, P.E. (right) receiving a golden apple from Geotechnical Group Chair Walter Papp at the end of the Mueser Rutledge Lecture.
On November 19, 2009, Robert B. Bittner, P.E. delivered the 19th Annual Mueser Rutledge Technical Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center Recital Hall. Mr. Bittner is the President of Bittner-Shen Consulting Engineers, Inc., located in Portland, Oregon. He delivered a lecture titled "Construction Methods and Design of Marine Structures–The Search for a Better Solution."
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Met Section
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M. Dan Morris, P.E., F.ASCE, who served as President of the Met Section in 1972-1973 and Secretary from 1964-1970, died on November 9, 2009 in Ithaca, NY. Born in New York City in 1922, he attended Stuyvesant High School and entered Cornell University in the fall of 1941, sharing a table in freshman drafting with Robert Olmsted, Chair of the Met Section's History & Heritage Committee. Dan served with the Army Corps of Engineers during and after World War II in Okinawa, Japan, and China. Before starting his own soil testing firm and returning to New York City, Morris worked a number of infrastructure projects in South America and the Caribbean.
In the mid-1960s, Dan decided to devote most of his time to technical writing and editing. He was the author of over 500 published works including articles, technical papers, and books, and also edited hundreds of books including a series of 91 practical construction guides published by John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill. Morris was the founding Editor of the ASCE Construction Division Journal, served as Chairman of the Construction Division, and was the recipient of the Peurifoy Construction Research Award from ASCE in 2001. He also taught more than 700 technical writing courses to thousands of engineers over a span of four decades.
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Long Island Branch
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Over 150 people attended the "Crane Safety Training for Engineers and Supervisors" lecture at Domenico's Restaurant Pizzeria in Levittown on October 15, 2009, setting an all-time attendance record for a Long Island Branch event since its inception in 1971. Speakers Matthew J. Burkart, P.E. and Harlan Fair presented material that allowed construction engineers, supervisors, and owners to learn more about crane safety on construction sites and how important it is to have crane safety plans so that accidents can be prevented.
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Geotechnical Group
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Professor Kyle Rollins of BYU (left) received a golden apple from Geotechnical Group Chair Walter Papp at the end of the lecture.
Group behavior of piles has always posed a design challenge to practitioners. It is found convenient to relate the behavior of a single pile in a group to that of a single isolated pile. Generally, this is done by utilizing a "P" multiplier. The industry relies of findings from field studies and analytical studies to estimate appropriate value of the multiplier that can be used in design.
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