PROOFTESTING OF A STRUCTURAL PLATE PIPE WITH VARYING BEDDING AND BACKFILL PARAMETERS: SECTION II: ANALYSIS OF EXTERNAL LOADS

Kyowa, Ormond and Cambridge Contact Soil Stressmeters were placed in an embankment and around the periphery of the 120-in.- (3.05-m-) diameter, 12-gauge, steel, structural plate, DB Culvert under a 188-ft (57-m) overfill. Transducers were scanned periodically as the embankment was constructed. Normal tractions acting at the soil-culvert interface of eight zones of the pipe and tangential tractions at three of those zones have been plotted as functions of overfill. Digitized stresses from these functions have been plotted as profiles at significant overfilles and time intervals after fill completion, and interpolated stresses have been established by cubic spline functions. Plots of embankment stresses as functions of overfill are also included. (FHWA)

• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  Division of Transportation Facilities Design, 1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Davis Sr, R E
  • Semans, F M
  • Mish, K D
• Publication Date: 1982-6

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Backfilling; Bedding; Embankments; Instrumentation; Loads; Overtopping; Pipe; Pipe culverts; Sewers; Splines; Stresses; Structural materials; Structural plates; Testing; Transducers
• Old TRIS Terms: Backfills; Bedding /sewers/; Overfills; Structural plate pipes
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Materials; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00388832
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-CA-SD-82-06 Intrm Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: D-4-113 (F72SD02)
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM