Buried Pipe Design

Everything you need to design, install, replace, and rehabilitate buried pipe systems. Put a single-volume treasury of underground piping solutions at your command! A one-of-a-kind resource, Buried Pipe Design, Second Edition, identifies and explains every factor you must know to work competently and confidently with the subsurface infrastructure of distribution systems, including sewer lines, drain lines, water mains, gas lines, telephone and electrical conduits, culverts, oil lines, coal slurry lines, subway tunnels, and heat distribution lines.

Within the pages of this professional tool, you'll find solutions for aging, deteriorating piping beneath America's cities—and learn how to design long-lived systems capable of delivering vital services and meeting new demands. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art resource shows you how to:

* Determine loads on buried pipes
* Understand pipe hydraulics
* Choose an installation design for buried gravity flow pipes
* Design for both rigid and flexible pipes
* Select appropriate pipe materials
* Work within safety guidelines
* Handle soil issues, including embedment and backfill
* Employ finite element analysis (FEA)
* Adhere to current standards of AWWA, ASTM, and other organizations
* Save time with design examples
* And more!

This update of A. P. Moser's classic guide is now twice the size of the previous edition, reflecting progress in the field. It includes new material on:

* External loads
* Design of gravity flow and pressure pipes
* Rigid pipe products
* Steel and ductile iron pipes
* Plastic pipes
* Safety and handling, trenchless methods

Plus, new data on cutting-edge pipe materials.