Design Criteria
- AASHTO Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges and wastewater
applications
-AREMA Manual for Railway Engineering
-ACI 318, for tunnels and special design and ACI 350R, for wastewater applications
Analysis Methods
- Finite Element Analysis
- Moment Distribution
- AREMA Chapter 8, Part 16 formulas
- Beam Formulas
- Reinforced Concrete Analysis
Design Procedure
1-Determine the applied loads using the appropriate design criteria.
2- Investigate load cases which will give the maximum positive and negative
bending moments in the walls.
3-Determine the maximum shear and bending moments using the selected
analysis method.
4-Calculate the required wall thickness and reinforcing steel area to satisfy
the appropriate design criteria.
FINDING DIMENSION OF BOX CULVERT
Obtaining :
-The design span length and wall height should be based on the
centerline-of-member to centerline-of-member dimensions
-The structural design of a reinforced concrete box culvert
comprises the detailed analysis of the rigid frame for moments ,
shear forces and thrusts due to various types of loading condition
-The box culvert is analyzed for moments , shear force and axial
force due to various loading condition by any of classical
methods such as moment distribution , slope deflection and
column analogy procedures
- The used method in design is the working stress method to avoid
any crack because the any small crack can cause to erosion in
steel bar and then failure.
outlined below:.
1- The weight of embankment and deck slab and the track
load are considered to be uniformly distributed load on the
top slab.
weight of fill+
weight of live load and
Impact load + weight of top
concrete slab.
weight of fill =density of fill × the height from edge of street to the edge of top slab (N).