Within the pages of this acclaimed professional tool you'll find space-age remedies for the aging, deteriorating piping beneath America's cities -- and learn how to design long-lived systems capable of delivering vital services and meeting new demands. 544 pp.

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art resource shows you how to:

• Determine loads on buried pipes
• Understand pipe hydraulics
• Choose an installation design for buried gravity flow pipes
• Design for both rigid pipe and flexible pipe
• Select appropriate pipe for your application based on material properties
• Work within safety guidelines
• Handle soil issues, including pipe embedment and backfill
• Employ the powerful tool of finite element analysis (FEA)
• Adhere to current standards of the AWWA, ASTM, and other relevant standards organization
• Save time with actual design examples
• Much, much more!

This thorough update of A. P. Moser's classic guide is now twice the size of the previous edition -- reflecting the vast progress and changes in the field in mere decade! You'll find enormous amounts of all-new material, including:

• External Loads chapter: minimum soil cover, with a discussion of similitude; soil subsidence; load due to temperature rise; seismic loads; and flotation
  
  
• Design of Gravity Flow Pipes chapter: compaction techniques; E' analysis; parallel pipes and trenches; and analytical methods for predicting performance of buried flexible pipes Design of Pressure Pipes chapter: corrected theory for cyclic life of PVC pipe…strains induced by combined loading in buried pressurized flexible pipe Rigid Pipe Products chapter: the direct method…design strengths for concrete pipe…and SPIDA (Soil-Pipe Interaction Design and Analysis)
  
  
• Steel and Ductile Iron Flexible Pipe Products chapter: three-dimensional FEA modeling of a corrugated steel pipe arch…tests on spiral ribbed steel pipe, low-stiffness ribbed steel pipe, and ductile iron pipe
  
  
• Plastic Flexible Pipe Products chapter: long-term stress relaxation and strain testing of PVC pipes…frozen-in stresses…cyclic pressures and elevated temperatures…the AWWA study on the use of PVC…long-term ductility of PE…the ESCR and NCTL tests for PE…and full-scale testing of HDPE profile-wall pipes
  
  
• Entirely new chapter! You get new information on pipe handling and trenching as well as safety issues. Here are valuable directions for working with fast-growing trenchless methods for installing and rehabilitating pipelines

Plus:

• More design examples
  
  
• The latest ASTM, AWWA, ASHTTO, and TRB standards
  
  
• New data on cutting-edge materials including profile-wall polyethylene

Buried Pipe Design, 2nd Edition - Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• External Loads
• Design of Gravity Flow Pipes
• Design of Pressure Pipes
• Rigid Pipe Products
• Steel and Ductile Iron Flexible Pipe Products
• Plastic Flexible Pipe Products
• Pipe Installation and Trenchless Technology