Determination of entrance loss coefficients for pre-cast reinforced concrete box culverts.
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Determination of entrance loss coefficients for pre-cast reinforced concrete box culverts.

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  • Corporate Creators:
    University of Iowa
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration
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  • Publication/ Report Number:
    SPR 90-00-CULV-011
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    Iowa
  • Edition:
    Final report.
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Iowa. Dept. of Transportation
  • Abstract:
    There is an increased interest in constructing Pre-Cast (PC) Twin and Triple Reinforced Concrete Box (RCB) culverts

    in Iowa due to the efficiency associated with their production in controlled environment and decrease of the construction

    time at the culvert sites. The design of the multi-barrel PC culverts is, however, based on guidelines for single-barrel cast-inplace

    (CIP) culverts despite that the PC and CIP culverts have different geometry. There is scarce information for multiplebarrel

    RCB culverts in general and even fewer on culverts with straight wingwalls as those designed by Iowa DOT. Overall,

    the transition from CIP to PC culverts requires additional information for improving the design specifications currently in

    use. Motivated by the need to fill these gaps, an experimental study was undertaken by IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering.

    The goals of the study are to document flow performance curves and head losses at the culvert entrance for a various culvert

    geometry, flow conditions, and settings. The tests included single-, double- and triple-barrel PC and CIP culverts with two

    span-to-rise ratios set on mild and steep slopes. The tests also included optimization of the culvert geometry entrance by

    considering various configurations for the top bevel.

    The overall conclusion of the study is that by and large the current Iowa DOT design specifications for CIP culverts can

    be used for multi-barrel PC culvert design. For unsubmerged flow conditions the difference in the hydraulic performance

    curves and headloss coefficients for PC and CIP culverts are within the experimental uncertainty. Larger differences

    (specified by the study) are found for submerged conditions when the flow is increasingly constricted at the entrance in the

    culvert. The observed differentiation is less important for multi-barrel culverts as the influence of the wingwalls decreases

    with the increase of the number of barrels.

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