Technical Activities Division (TAD)
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Chart of Current Special Projects
Executive Committee
- Charles Roeder, Chair
- Dennis Mertz, Vice Chair
- Satish Nagarajaiah, Secretary
- Donald Dusenberry, Past Chair
- Andy Herrmann
- Roberto Leon, BOG Representative
- Mike Ritter, BOG Representative
TAD Forms
Policies and Procedures Manual: This document outlines the general policies and operational procedures of the Technical Activities Division. They are intended as a guide for officers and members of all Division Committees to be used in conjunction with the Rules of Policy and Procedure, Constitution, and Bylaws of the Society as published in the ASCE Official Register, with interpretations by the Division Executive Committee.
Please refer to appendix VI of the Policies and Procedures Manual for copies of all TAD forms.
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Chair Training Program 2008
Chair Training Program 2007
Chair Training Program 2006 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION
The Technical Activities Division is made up of over 70 Technical Committees dealing with a variety of Structural Engineering issues. These committees develop technical publications, technical sessions for conferences, specialty conferences, provide articles for journals, manuals of practice, committee reports and more.
Purpose:
Advance the science of structural design by increasing the knowledge of the physical properties of engineering materials, developing methods of analysis, studying the relative merits of various types of structures and methods of fabricating, and disseminating knowledge relating to this division of the engineering profession.
TAD has 9 Technical Administrative Committees that oversee the activity of the technical committees below.
Technical Administrative Committees:
- ANALYSIS AND COMPUTATION-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Emerging Computing Technology
- Structural Control
- Methods of Analysis
- Optimal Structural Design
- BRIDGES-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Bridge Management, Inspection, and Rehabilitation
- Subcommittee on Concrete Bridge Design (Joint with ACI 343)
- Cable-Supported Bridges
- Bridge Management, Inspection, and Rehabilitation
- Steel Bridges
- Timber Bridges
- Bridge Security
- CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Concrete Shell Design and Construction (Joint with ACI 334)
- Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs (Joint with ACI 421)
- Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures (Joint with ACI 447)
- Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures (Joint with ACI 352)
- Precast Structural Concrete (Joint with ACI 550)
- Prestressed Concrete (Joint with ACI 423)
- Reinforced Concrete Columns (Joint with ACI 441)
- Shear and Torsion (Joint with ACI 445)
- DYNAMIC EFFECTS-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Blast, Shock and Impact
- Task Committee on Design for Physical Security
- Emerging Analysis Methods in Earthquake Engineering
- Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering
- METALS-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Composite Construction
- Compression and Flexural Members
- Design of Steel Building Structures
- Fatigue and Fracture
- Methods of Design
- Special Structures
- Task Committee on Tensioned Fabric Structures
- Structural Connections
- PERFORMANCE OF STRUCTURES-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Performance-Based Design for Buildings
- Methods of Monitoring Structural Performance
- Structural Identification of Constructed Systems
- Progressive Collapse
- SPECIAL DESIGN ISSUES-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Aesthetics in Design
- Electrical Transmission Structures
- Task Committee on Concrete Transmission Pole Structures
- Subcommittee on the Gene Wilhoite Award
- Task Committee on FRP Utility Structures
- Task Committee on Wood Utility Pole Structures
- Fire Protection
- Tall Buildings
- Subcommittee on Full Scale Monitoring of Tall Buildings
- Telecommunications Facilities
- Sustainabilty Committee
- STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND RELIABILITY-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Safety of Buildings
- Reliability of Offshore Structures
- Safety of Bridges
- Fatigue and Fracture Reliability
- WOOD-TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
- Wood Building Design
- Wood Research
- Reliability-Based Design of Wood Structures
- Wood Education
If you are interested in joing one of the technical committees click on the link at the top of the page. This will take you to the application. Complete the application and e-mail it to staff for processing.
Please note that the Technical Administrative Committees are not available to join. These committees manage the committees under them.
