Conduits, Culverts, and Pipes (Timed & Monitored)
- Course Number: C1006T
- Credits: 8 hours
- Instructor: Hong Chen
- Price: $80
Course Outline
Conduits, culverts, and pipes are important infrastructure elements in 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:
- Become familiar with design and installation of cast-in-place conduits for dams;
- Become familiar with design and installation of circular reinforced concrete pipe for small dams and levees;
- Become familiar with design and installation of corrugated metal pipe for rural levees and culverts;
- Become familiar with design and installation of concrete culverts;
- Become familiar with design and installation of ductile iron pipe and plastic pipe for other applications; and
- Become familiar with design and construction guidelines for pipe jacking.