Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by Paul8

  1. Paul8

    Non structural beam in staad to apply linear loads to bent

    I am designing a series of bents as pipe racks and am wondering if there is an easier way to apply loads. I am currently converting all my linear loads from pipes to point loads for each bent. This is tedious becuase not all bents are equally spaced. Is there a way to have a beam run between...
  2. Paul8

    Design of Discharge pipe from detention pond

    Thanks Trackfiend. I am strugling with the manning equation because I dont know how full the pipe will be at exit. I understand the general philosophy on outflow vs inflow but was unsure numerically how to determine. My pipe discharges in such a way so that there will never be water buildup...
  3. Paul8

    Design of Discharge pipe from detention pond

    Hi, I am designing a discharge pipe for a detention pond. The pre - construction runoff is 16.5 cfs, so the discharge from the detention pond should not exceed this. The max head is 3.5' in the reservoir. How do I size my pipe so as not to exceed 16.5 cfs. The pipe has 0 slope and is HDPE...

Part and Inventory Search