Design Aids

Design aids are available which contain technical and design information needed to assist engineers when specifying concrete pipe for sanitary sewers, storm sewers and culverts.  The design aids cover data on live loads and earth loads, supporting strengths, installation, hydraulics of sewers and culverts, and supplemental design information.  In selecting the type, size, and strength requirements of pipe, please use the following aids published by the American Concrete Pipe Association.

American Concrete Pipe Association 222 W. Las Colinas Blvd., Suite 641 Irving, Texas 75039-5423 Phone: 972-506-7216 Fax: 972-506-7682 www.concrete-pipe.org

ACPA Design Data Sheets

Loads

• No.  1  – Highway Live Loads on Circular Concrete Pipe
 
• No.  7  – Concrete Pipe Selection: Trench Installations
  
• No.13  – Jacking Concrete Pipe
 
• No.15  – Aircraft Loads
 
• No.16  – Railroad Loads
 
• No.29  – Multiple Pipe Installation: Trench Condition
 

Hydraulics of Sewer

• No.  4  – Hydraulic Capacity of Sewers
 
• No.  5  –  Equivalent Flow Capacity of Sewers
 
• No.35  – Partial Flow Condition Circular Concrete Pipe
 
• No.36  – Partial Flow Condition Arch Concrete
 
• No.37  – Partial   Flow Condition Elliptical Concrete Pipe
 

Hydraulics of Culverts

• No. 3  – Hydraulic Performance Curves for Common Types of Culverts with Projecting Inlets
• No. 8-11  – Hydraulics of Culverts: 12” Through 144” Diameter Pipe
• No.18  – Hydraulics of Culverts: Horizontal Elliptical Concrete Pipe, Corrugated Metal Pipe Arch
• No.19  – Hydraulics of Culverts: Horizontal Elliptical Concrete Pipe, Structural Plate Pipe Arch
• No.20  – Hydraulics of Culverts: Concrete Arch Pipe and Corrugated Metal Pipe Arch
• No.26 – Hydraulic Capacity of Precast Concrete Boxes
• No.27  – Hydraulics of Culverts: Precast Concrete Box Sections 3’ Through 6’ Spans
• No.28  – Hydraulics of Culverts: Precast Concrete Box Sections 7’ Through 10’ Spans
• No.33  – Precast Concrete Box Sections Partial Flow Conditions
• No.34 – Hydraulics of Culverts: Precast Concrete Box Sections 11’ Through 12’ Spans

Installation

• No.21  – Curved Alignment

Miscellaneous

• No.39  – Low Pressure Air Testing

Concrete Pipe Information

• C.P. Information 1 – ASTM C 76 Reinforcement Design Changes and Related Research
• C.P. Information 2 – Culvert Velocity Reduction By Internal Energy Dissipaters
• C.P. Information 3 – Culvert Velocity Reductions With An Outlet Expansion
• C.P. Information 5 – Precast Concrete Box Sections
• C.P. Information 6 – Effects of Cracks In Reinforced Concrete Sanitary Sewer Pipe
• C.P. Information 7 – Effects of Cracks n Reinforced Concrete Culvert Pipe
• C.P. Information 8 – Life Factor Design Of RCP Sewers
• C.P. Information10 – Significance Of Cracks In Concrete Pipe
• C.P. Information11 – Precast Concrete Pipe Durability
• C.P. Information12 – Lateral Pressure And Bedding Factors