FIRST ATTEMPT AT PRECAST BOX CULVERTS A WINNER FOR CHANDLER MATERIALS

Chandler Materials Company, a veteran Tulsa, Oklahoma producer of concrete block and pipe, recently reported its successful entry into a previously untried area-production of precast concrete box culvert sections. To obtain different wall thicknesses, the MAMCO system uses a wall spacer that also fastens into the four sides. The capability to change wall thicknesses made it possible for Chandler to produce culvert sections conforming to both ASTM C-789 and C-850 with a minimum of form equipment. Cores, headers, and pallets of box culvert forms from MAMCO also are adjustable. If future road widening requires lengthening the culvert, the tongue and groove joint configuration of precast units makes line extension and easy operation, in comparison with extending a cast-in-place culvert.

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  Pit and Quarry Publications

  205 West Wacker Drive
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606
• Publication Date: 1984-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 20
• Serial:
  • CONCRETE
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: THE CONCRETE SOCIETY
  • ISSN: 0010-5317

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box culverts; Concrete construction; Concrete forms; Culverts; Inspection; Manufactures; Pavement widening; Precast concrete; Radioactivity; Radiography; Roads; Spacing; Thickness; Walls
• Uncontrolled Terms: Widening
• Old TRIS Terms: Different wall thicknesses; Spacers
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389603
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM