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Schedule
Link to PTData Home Page - Post-Tensioning Design Programs
Brewer, H. W., "Moisture
Migration - Concrete Slab-on-Ground Construction", Journal of
the PCA Research and Development Laboratories,
Vol. 7, No. 2, May, 1965 (downloadable pdf file)
Link to Seneca Structural Engineering,
Inc.
On May 16, 2005, Mr. Bondy, along with 24 other individuals who have made "significant long-term contributions to the development of the post-tensioning industry in North America" were inducted as inaugural members into the Post-Tensioning Institute Hall of Fame - "Legends of Post-Tensioning". The Awards Ceremony and Dinner were held during the annual PTI Engineering Conference at the Westin Tabor Center Hotel in Denver, Colorado.
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Publications and Presentations
"Code
Requirements for Sulfate Durability in Residential Concrete", PTI
Journal, Post-Tensioning Institute,
February, 2008, pp. 25-29
"Requirements
for Strength and Ductility of Unbonded Post-Tensioning Tendons",
PTI Journal, Post-Tensioning
Institute, February, 2008, pp. 61-64
"Post-Tensioned Concrete in Buildings, Past and Future - An Insider's View", PTI Journal, Post-Tensioning Institute, December 2006, pp. 91-100
"Thicker is Weaker?", Technical Note #15, Post-Tensioning Institute, November, 2005.
"Moisture Migration in Concrete Slabs-on-Ground", presented at a joint meeting of the San Diego Chapters of the American Concrete Institute and the International Concrete Repair Institute, San Diego, California, June 9, 2005.
"ACI
Code Deflection Requirements - Time For a Change?",
SP 225,
Serviceability of Concrete - A Symposium
Honoring Dr. Edward G. Nawy, American
Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI 2005, pp. 133-146.
"Some
Practical Difficulties With ACI 318 Code Deflection Criteria",
paper presented at the Spring Convention of the American
Concrete Institute, New York, New York, April 18, 2005
"Judging
Building Codes - Important Issues in Construction Defect Litigation"
, paper
presented at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, "Construction Defect Litigation
- From California Heading East", Seminar T-015, March 15, 2005, Las
Vegas, Nevada
"Post-Tensioned Concrete in Buildings: A 40+ Year Overview",
paper presented at the Fall Convention of the American
Concrete Institute, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2004 and at
the Engineering Conference of the Post-Tensioning
Institute, Denver, Colorado, May 16, 2005.
"Some
Recent Problems in Applying ACI 318 Deflection Criteria", paper
presented at the Fall Convention of the American
Concrete Institute, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2004.
"Post-Tensioned
Slab Analysis - Four Seasons Building", paper presented at the
SEAOSC Research Committee Seminar, "Four Seasons Forced Vibration Testing",
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,
May 15, 2004.
"Judging Building Codes", Concrete International, American
Concrete Institute, May 2003, pp. 93-96.
"Vapor Transmission
Through Concrete Slabs: Facts and Fictions", paper presented
at the 2002-2003 Annual Conference, California Geotechnical Engineers Association,
Carmel, California, April 12, 2003.
"Moment
Redistribution: Principles and Practice Using ACI 318-02", PTI
Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Post-Tensioning
Institute, January, 2003, pp. 3-21.
"Slab-on-Ground
Design Using the PTI Method", paper presented at the 2002
Conference and Exhibition, Post-Tensioning
Institute, San Antonio, Texas, May 6, 2002.
"Concrete Perspectives - The World Trade Center", with William M. Klorman, Concrete Construction Magazine, January, 2002, pp. 102-104.
"Post-Tensioned
Concrete: Five Decades of American Building Construction - An Interview With
Kenneth B. Bondy", Concrete
Construction Magazine, December, 2001, pp. 42-49.
"Moisture
Dome Tests - What Do They Measure?", with Geoffrey D. Hichborn,
Sr., P.E., paper presented at the International Floor Covering Inspection
Convention, Academy
of Textiles and Flooring,
Las Vegas, Nevada, January 30, 2001.
Discussion: "Damage
and Distortion Criteria for Residential Slab-on-Grade Structures",
with Geoffrey D. Hichborn, Sr., P.E., Journal of Performance of Constructed
Facilities, American Society of Civil Engineers,
November 2000, p. 167.
"Performance
Evaluation of Residential Concrete Foundations", Technical Note
#9, Post-Tensioning Institute,
July 2000.
"Expert
Witness Qualifications - Should They Have Some?", Opinion Article,
Newsletter of the Post-Tensioning
Institute, Spring 2000, p.3.
"Hands-On or High-Tech in Undergraduate Engineering Education?", paper presented at the Fall Convention of the American Concrete Institute, November 3, 1999, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Contractors, Engineers, and Building Codes: Who is Responsible?", Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, July 1999, pp. 35-39.
"Responsibilities in Construction - a Contractor's Viewpoint", Proceedings of the Structural Engineer's World Congress (SEWC), July 18-23, 1998, San Francisco, California, ISBN: 0080428452.
"The New and Improved Slab-on-Ground Design Manual", Concrete Construction Magazine, July 1997, pp. 586-588.
"Cracking in Post-Tensioned Ground-Supported Slabs on Expansive Soils", Technical Note #6, Post-Tensioning Institute, August 1995.
"Pick an Expert - Any Expert: A Critique of the Expert Witness System in Construction Litigation", with Scott Richard Lord, Esq., STRUCTURE Magazine, National Council of Structural Engineer's Associations, Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 1995, p.15.
"Variable Prestress Force in Unbonded Post-Tensioned Members", Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, January 1992, pp. 27-33.
"Shortening Problems in Post-Tensioned Concrete Buildings", Seminar Proceedings, "Design Review and Inspection of Prestressed Concrete Building Projects", Structural Engineer's Association of Southern California, January 1989.
Discussion: "Behavior and Design of Multistory Building Frames of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete", Journal of the American Concrete Institute, Proceedings Vol. 83, No. 5, September-October 1986, pp. 869-870.
"Banded Tendons in Post-Tensioned Flat Plates", Seminar Proceedings, "Prestressed Concrete Design", Structural Engineer's Association of Southern California, November 1985.
"Realistic Requirements for Unbonded Post-Tensioning Tendons", Journal of the Prestressed Concrete Institute, February 1970, pp. 50-59.
Discussion: "Sudden Collapse of Unbonded Underprestressed Structures", Journal of the American Concrete Institute, Proceedings Vol. 66, No. 8, August 1969, pp.680-681.
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Curriculum
Vitae
Link to Dive
Training
Magazine
Published Articles
Dive Geo:
"Papua New Guinea", with Coleen Bondy, Dive
Training Magazine, February, 1992, pp. 32-35.
Dive
Geo: "An Oasis in the Desert - Baja California and the Enchanted Sea
of Cortez", with Coleen Bondy, Dive
Training Magazine, March, 1992, pp. 36-40.
Dive
Geo: "California's Channel Islands - a Wilderness Salvaged",
with Coleen Bondy, Dive Training
Magazine, May, 1992, pp. 46-49.
Dive
Geo: "Vancouver Island - Pacific Paradise Canadian Style",
with Coleen Bondy, Dive Training
Magazine, September, 1993, pp. 42-47.
"Scuba
Trolling - Lessons Learned from an Unusual and Frightening Out-of-Air Emergency",
Dive Training Magazine,
October, 1994, pp. 70-71.
"Pier
Diving - the Rewards are Peerless", with Coleen Bondy, Dive
Training Magazine, May, 2000, pp. 102-105.