Conduits, Culverts, and Pipes

Course Outline

Conduits, culverts, and pipes are important infrastructure elements in a modern society. They are used for dams, urban levees, and rural levees. This course provides guidance on the design and construction of conduits, culverts, and pipes. It covers the design procedures for trench/embankment earth loadings, highway loadings, railroad loadings, surface concentrated loadings, internal/external fluid pressures, cast-in-place conduits for dams, circular reinforced concrete pipe for small dams and levees, and corrugated metal pipe for rural levees and culverts. Besides loading and methods of analysis, this course includes material selection, installation methods, and corrugated metal pipe life cycle design. The course material is based on the Engineering and Design Manual "Conduits, Culverts, and Pipes" published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

At the end of this course, there will be a multiple-choice, open-book quiz, which is designed to enhance your understanding of the course material.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student will: