Abstract
One of the latest products available for stormwater drainage and storage purposes is the underground chamber. These structures are typically shaped semicircular or semielliptical with flat outward flanges at the end of their legs. Despite the fact that several different chamber products are currently on the market and their applications are growing rapidly, there has been a total lack of even a simple analysis made available to the practicing engineers. In this paper, the author presents his first attempt in developing an analytical tool for the buried chamber structure. The end results are deflection and vertical pressure formulas that are based on observations made by the author during field load tests and computer simulations. A parametric study is carried out, with the equations derived to gain some insights into how these chamber structures behave in the ground.
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Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
Volume 8 • Issue 3 • August 2017
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©2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: May 4, 2016
Accepted: Nov 10, 2016
Published ahead of print: Feb 9, 2017
Published online: Feb 10, 2017
Discussion open until: Jul 10, 2017
Published in print: Aug 1, 2017
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