BURIED PIPE DESIGN 3/E | 
| Authors: A. P. Moser, Steve Folkman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Pages: 601
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 007147689X
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.8672
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Product Description
Unearth the Secrets of Designing and Building High-Quality Buried Piping Systems This brand-new edition of Buried Pipe Design helps you analyze the performance of a wide range of pipes, so you can determine the proper pipe and installation system for the job. Covering almost every type of rigid and flexible pipe, this unique reference identifies and describes factors involved in working with sewer and drain lines, water and gas mains, subway tunnels, culverts, oil and coals slurry lines, and telephone and electrical conduits. It provides clear examples for designing new municipal drinking and wastewater systems or rehabilitating existing ones that will last for many years on end. Comprehensive in scope and meticulously detailed in content, this is the pipe design book you'll want for a reference. This NEW edition includes: - Important data on the newest pipe styles, including profile-wall polyethylene
- Updated references to ASTM, AWWA, and ASHTTO, standards
- Numerous examples of specific types of pipe system designs
- Safety precautions included in installation specifications
- Greater elaboration on trenchless technology methods
- New information on the cyclic life of PVC pressure pipe
Buried Pipe Design covers the ins and outs of: - External Loads
- Gravity Flow Pipe Design
- Pressure Pipe Design
- Rigid Pipe Products
- Flexible Steel Pipe
- Flexible Ductile Iron Pipe
- Flexible Plastic Pipe
- Pipe Installation
- Trenchless Technology
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A one-of-a kind resource, Buried Pipe Design, Second Edition, identifies and explains every factor you must know to work competently and confidently with the subsurface infrastructure of distribution systems, including sewer lines, drain lines, water mains, gas lines, telephone and electrical conduits, culverts, oil lines, coal slurry lines, subway tunnels and heat distribution lines.
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 Superb book April 27, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a very impressive and amazing book on what, well, what want you say, is probably not the most exciting topic in engineering. But at over 600 pages of very detailed and dense text, it's the most impressive book on the subject I've seen.
Starting with the pioneering Marston equations and approach to buried pipe, and the subsequent important work of Watkins and Spangler, the author leads you through the various scenarios for pipe design. He shows how, under certain conditions, flexible pipe can actually withstand more pressure than rigid pipe, a non-intuitive result that was very interesting.
There's considerable math in the book, but it's mostly algebra with very little actual calculus. The equations are some of the unloveliest ones I've ever seen, with exponents that go on for five or more terms, but then that's due to the messy conditions that determine pipe stresses and loads. Some simplifying assumptions can occasionally be made, such as flexible pipe being considered as responding like a simple spring, allowing already well known dynamics to be used.
The 2nd edtion appears very up to date and discusses new materials such as profile wall polyethylene, and more; new standards from ASTM, AWWA, AASHTO, and TRB; includes a new safety section for installation specs, and more design examples. (It touts these updates prominently on the book's cover).
The book is divided up into 8 main sections, which are:
1. Introduction and Overview
2. External Loads
3. Design of Gravity Flow Pipes
4. Design of Pressure Pipes
5. Rigid Pipe Products
6. Steel and Ductile Iron Flexible Pipe Products
7. Plastic Flexible Pipe Products
8. Pipe Installation and Trenchless Technology
There are so many interesting application specific topics in this book that it's impossible to discuss all of them, but I especially enjoyed the section in chapter 8 on microtunneling and pipe-jacking procedures and equipment, one of the recent methods of trenchless pipe installation. The specialized boring equipment is expensive, but it provides very precise control of conditions and can be used in many types of soils, ranging from "highly unstable to very firm soil conditions," as the author says.
I also liked how the author discusses a fair amount of soil geology and engineering where appropriate, since I don't know much about this subject, having read one brief book many years ago on this topic. He points out that, for the purposes of engineering, soils can be considered to fall into five main types: gravel, sand, silt, clay, and organic (basically peat), Of course, this is simplified (in the state of California, where I live, for example, the soils are classified by the U.S. Geological Survey into over 40 large regions and types). But for pipe construction and engineering purposes, it's usually sufficient to classify soils according to their ability to enhance the structural performance of a particular pipe in a certain soil. In situations like this, I like that the author will mention other technical publications, which in this case is the ASTM D 2321, "Standard Practice for Underground Installation of Flexible Thermoplastic Sewer Pipe."
There are also a number of nice sections dealing with the advanced pipe testing and research facility which the author apparently designed himself with interesting photos of some of the work carried out there. Many additional technical papers and documents put out by the various standards boards and agencies are mentioned for additional reading, which you can probably get for free.
Overall, this is a very impressive, detailed, and useful treatment of an important area of civil engineering. As the author points out in the introduction, the pipe infrastructure provides essential services that modern civilization couldn't really do without, and understanding how to install and maintain it is of prime importance for both citizens and municipalities.
 Excellent Resource for Municipal Pipeline Engineers January 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book covers a lifetime of pioneering research conducted by the author, Dr. Al Moser, on all types of municipal pipe materials. Dr. Moser studied under legends like Dr. Reynold Watkins and Dr. Marlin Spangler and has conducted research on every aspect of pipelines, the results of which are used by design engineers all over the world. This is a must-have for municipal water and wastewater pipeline engineers.
Excellent Practitioner's Source on Buried Pipes November 26, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent source of information on buried pipe analysis and design from theory to application. It rounds out the reader's perspective with valuable full size pipe research data. Fundamentals of buried pipe analysis and design are clearly presented as well as information on nonlinear finite element analysis of soil-structure interaction of the pipe-soil system. An excellent book for practitioners with a problem to solve!
Buried Pipe Design Review comments April 4, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received a copy of Dr. Moser's text "Buried Pipe Design, Second Edition". Upon a brief inspection, I was impressed with the breath, number of figures, illustrations, numerous example problems and extensive number of references at the end of each chapter.The addition of SPIDA (soil-pipe interaction design and analysis) in Chapter 5 (Rigid Pipe Products) is very valuable. The introduction to new pipe materials, particularly the discussion of profile-wall polyethylene pipe is appreciated. Finally, the introduction of information on pipe handling and trenching(Chapter 8: Pipe Installation and Trenchless Technology) is welcome.
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