AWWA Steel Water Pipe: A Guide For Design and Installation, 4th Edition Is the perfect reference for keeping up maintenance of steel water pipes through AWWA standards and practices. This handy operations manual is an excellent resource for selecting piping, installation and maintenance of steel water pipe. The fourth edition bring you the most current and best practices for using steel pipe for potable water transmission and distribution systems. There is no finer or up-to-date steel pipe practice guide for water distribution systems operators and engineers. This guide goes over the history, physical characteristics and uses of steel pipe. The guide also covers hydraulics of pipelines, testing and manufacturing, determination of pipe wall thickness and water hammer and pressure surge. Readers will also gain the knowledge of external loads, pipe joints, supports for piping and fittings as well as appurtenances. This guide is a perfect reference for beginner engineers as well as veterans of the industry.

Steel Water Pipe: A Guide for Design and Installation (M11), Fourth Edition - Table of Contents:

• History, Uses, and Physical Characteristics of Steel Pipe
• Manufacture and Testing
• Hydraulics of Pipelines
• Determination of Pipe Wall Thickness
• Water Hammer and Pressure Surge
• External Loads
• Supports for Pipe
• Pipe Joints
• Fittings and Appurtenances