This course provides guidance on the design and construction of conduits, culverts, and pipes for a variety of materials
Reinforced concrete conduits and pipes are used for dams and urban levees. Corrugated metal pipes are acceptable for use through some agricultural levees. Plastic pipe is used for a variety of drainage applications. This course provides guidance on the design and construction of conduits, culverts, and pipes for a variety of materials, and design procedures for trench/embankment earth loadings, highway loadings, railroad loadings, surface concentrated loadings and internal/external fluid pressures.
Topics: Introduction to pipe systems Life cycle design Cast-in-place conduits for dams Circular reinforced concrete pipe for small dams and levees Corrugated metal pipe for rural levees and culverts Concrete culverts Plastic pipe for other applications Ductile iron pipe and steel pipe for other applications Pipe jacking Evaluation and inspection of existing systems Repair of existing systems Design examples
Intended audience: civil, construction, and hydraulic engineers, and would be of particular interest to consulting engineers or to engineers serving in government organizations concerned with the maintenance and construction of water/wastewater facilities.
Publication Source: US Corp of Engineers
Dr. Harlan Bengtson is an online PDH course provider of continuing education courses for professional engineers. Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. Dr. Bengtson has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Harlan H. Bengtson, PE 33 Grainey Drive Glen Carbon, IL 62034 Phone: (618) 406-6892 E-mail: hnkbengtson@yahoo.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. He has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His areas of expertise are environmental engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, engineering science and renewable energy systems. He has done regular consulting work while holding the academic positions. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Bengtson worked for Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing as a Product Development Engineer and for E. I. duPont deNemours as a Process Development Engineer. Dr. Bengtson has authored numerous publications, presentations and technical reports. He is currently active as a freelance technical writer, author of continuing education courses for Professional Engineers, and is the founder of www.engineeringexceltemplates.com and www.EngineeringExcelSpreadsheets.com, sites with the objective of providing inexpensive, easy to use Excel spreadsheets for a variety of engineering calculations.
