Design of RCC Culvert Part-1
Design of RCC Culvert Part-1
Design of RCC Culvert Part-1
ON
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Submitted by
2023
DEPERTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
MALLABHUM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BISHNUPUR, BANKURA,
West Bengal
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this is a bonafide record of the project work entitled ‘Design of
RCC Box Culvert’ carried out by Rakesh Pal of 4thYear 7th Semester B.Tech , CIVIL
Engineering student of academic year 2023-2024 in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in CIVIL
Engineering.
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Vivek Chattopadhyay, (H.O.D.) Department of Civil
Engineering of Mallabhum Institute of Technology for providing me an opportunity to do my
project work.
I sincerely thank to my project guide Mr. Kundan Rana for their guidance and constant supervision
as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project & also for their support in
completing the project.
I express my special thanks to my classmates and all the teachers of Civil Engineering Department who
have provided me with necessary suggestions and relevant books with unselfish mind, whenever I
needed.
I express my sincere thanks to all of them who helped me through the punishing workload in a very
tight schedule. Lastly but not the least, I want to congratulate my institute for giving me this
opportunity.
The satisfaction and excitement that accompany the successful completion of the task would
Be great but incomplete without the mention of the people who made it possible with their
Constant guidance and encouragement crowns all the efforts with success. In this context,
We would like thank all the other staff members, both teaching and non-teaching, who have
Extended their timely help and eased our task.
________________________________________
( Rakesh Pal )
Roll No. 15801321052
Reg. No. 211580101320019 OF 2021-22
Dept. of CIVIL Engineering
4th Year 7th Semester
TABLE OF CONTENT
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or
similar obstruction. Typically embedded so as to be surrounded by soil, a culvert
may be made from a pipe, reinforced concrete or other material. A structure that
carries water above land is known as an aqueduct.
It is well known that roads are generally coy constructed in embankment which come
in the away of natural flow of storm water (from existing drainage channel). As, such
flow cannot be obstructed and some kind of cross drainage works are required to be
provided to allow water to pass across the embankment. The structures to accomplish
such flow across the road are called culverts small and major bridges depending on
thin span which in turns depend on the discharge. The culvert cover up to waterway of
6m and can mainly be of flow types, namely, Box or slab. The box is one which has
its top and bottom slabs monolithically connected to the vertical walls. In case of a
slab culvert the top slab is supported over the vertical walls (abutments /piers) but has
no monolithic connection between them. A Box culvert can have more than single cell
and can be placed such that the top slab is almost at road level and there is no cushion.
A box can also be placed neither the embankment where top slab is few meters below
the road surface and such boxes are termed with cushion. The size of box and the
invert level depend on the hydraulic requirement governed by hydraulic designs. The
height of cushion is governed by the road profile at the location of culvert. Box
culvert has many advantages compare to slab culverts or arch culverts. The box is
structurally strong, safe, and easy to construct.
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TYPE OF CULVERTS
1. Pipe Single or Multiple
2. Pipe Arch Single or Multiple
3. Box Culvert Single or Multiple
4. Bridge Culvert
5. Arch Culvert
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ARCH CULVERT
A pipe arch culvert is a round culvert reshaped to allow a lower profile while
maintaining flow characteristics. It is good for installations with shallow cover
LOCATION
Ideally, the axis of a culvert should coincide with that of the natural streamed and the
structure should be straight and short. This may require modification of the culvert
alignment and grade. Often it is more practical to construct the culvert at right angles
to the roadway. However, the cost of any change in stream channel location required
to accomplish this should be balanced against the cost of a skewed alignment of the
culvert, and changes in channel hydraulics should be considered.
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SITE INVESTIGATION
• LOCATION
Chhandar to Panchal PMGSY Road.
At 12th km.
Block-Sonamukhi, Dist-Bankura.
FIGURE 4: LOCATION
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EFFECTIVE WIDTH
Effective width in the run of culvert (length across span) is expected to be affected
by a moving live load. This width plays a significant role as far as consideration of
live load in the design of culvert. Where however, there is large cushion the live
load gets dispersed on a very large area through the fill and the load per unit area
becomes less and does not remain significant for the design of box, particularly in
comparison to the dead load due to such large cushion. In case of dead load or
uniform surcharge load the effective width has no role to play and such loads are to
be taken over the entire area for the design.
Effective width plays an important role for box without cushion as the live load
becomes the main load on the top slab and to evaluate its effects per unit run for
design as a rigid frame, this load is required to be divided by the effective width.
As such evaluating effective width correctly is of importance
Moving loads create Impact when these move over the deck slab. The impact
depends upon the class and type of load. The code gives formula to obtain impact
factor for different kinds of loads by which the live load is to be increased to
account for impact. The box without cushion where the top slab will be subjected
to impact is required to be designed for live loads including such live loads. It
specifies that for calculating pressure on the bearing and on the top surface of the
bed blocks, full value of the appropriate impact percentage be allowed.
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LOAD CASES FOR DESIGN
Mainly three load cases govern the design. These are given below Box empty, live
load surcharge on top slab of box and superimposed surcharge load on earth fill.
Box inside full with water, live load surcharge on top slab and superimposed
surcharge load on earth fill Box inside full with water, live load surcharge on top
slab and no superimposed surcharge on earth fill.
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TRI-AXIAL TEST
Conventional tri-axial test is a common laboratory testing method widely used
for obtaining shear strength parameters for a variety of soil types under
drained or un-drained condition.
The specimen is vertically enclosed with a thin rubber membrane and placed
between two rigid ends inside a pressure chamber. The upper plate can move
vertically and apply vertical stresses to the specimen. The axial strain/stress of the
sample is controlled through the movement of this vertical axis. Also, the
confining pressure is controlled by the water pressure surrounding the sample in
the pressure chamber.
Depending on the combination of loading and drainage condition, three main types
of tri-axial tests can be carried out:
In case of consolidated test, the test is then carried out by a first stage of applying
confining pressure in the pressure chamber and allowing drainage of the sample.
This stage corresponds to the consolidation of the sample. The deviatoric load is
then applied through the vertical axis. The deviatoric stress is indeed the difference
between the vertical stress and the confining stress. During the deviatoric
compression, the drainage valves can be open (CD) or closed (CU&UU).Tri axial
test data, in general, include evolution of axial and volumetric strain, deviatoric
and isotropic stress, and pore pressure evolution. From the tri-axial test results.
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FIGURE -5
CO – EFFICIENT OF EARTH PRESSURE
7A
FIGURE 6: TRI-AXIAL TEST APPARATUS
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COLLECTION OF TRAFFIC DATA
BICYCLE 150
BIKE 136
MAN 62
RICKSHAW 7 (3 WHEEL)
AUTO 7 (3 WHEEL)
TRUCK 2
4-WHEELER 13
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DESIGN OF BOX CULVERT
COLLECTED DATA
1) Soil bearing capacity = 9 tonnes/m²
2) Unit weight of soil = 1900 kg/m³
3) Axial wheel load (according to IRC) = 8.16 tonnes
4) Clear span (Horizontal) = 4m
5) Height of vent (Vertical) = 4m
6) Grade of concrete = M20 (1:1.5:3)
7) Grade of steel = Fe415
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Section of Box
FIGURE :8
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT B1
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.019× 64000= 1216kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT A2
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.019× 64000= 1216 kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT A3
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.019× 64000= 1216 kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT E4
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.043× 64000= 2752 kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT D5
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.023× 64000= 1472 kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT D6
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.023× 64000= 1472 kg-m
e) Calculation of moment due to earth pressure
Soil or earth pressure, P=W×H× [(1-sinɸ)/
(1+sinɸ)] Here, ɸ=30ᵒ, [(1-sinɸ)/ (1+sinɸ)] = (1/3)
P= W×H× (1/3)
P= 1900× [(4+0.2+0.3)/3] =2850 kg/m
Moment M=P×H²= 2850× (4.5)² =57712.5 kg-
m Moment M= 0.023× 57712.5 =1327.38 kg-m
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CALCULATION OF MOMENT AT C7
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d) Calculation of moment due to pressure from contained
water Load due to water= weight of water× height
= 1000 kg/m³× 4m =4000kg/m per 1 m
Moment M= P×H²= 4000× 4²= 64000 kg-
m Moment M= 0.023× 64000= 1472 kg-m
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DESIGN OF THE TOP SLAB
M= R×b×d²
So, depth of the top slab, d= √ [M/(R× b)]
For M20 concrete R=0.91, j=0.9, b=1 m.
So, d= √ [5200.885/ (0.91×1)] =75.599 mm.
Area of steel required:
Ast= [M/ (σst× j× d)] [Assuming effective clear cover of top slab= 20
mm, Hence d= 200-20= 180mm]
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DESIGN OF THE BOTTOM SLAB
M= R×b×d²
So, depth of the bottom slab, d= √ [M/(R× b)]
For M20 concrete R=0.91, j=0.9, b=1 m.
So, d= √ [4262.555/ (0.91×1)] =68.44 mm.
Area of steel required:
Ast= [M/ (σst× j× d)] [Assuming effective clear cover of bottom slab= 20
mm, Hence d= 300-20= 280mm]
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DESIGN OF THE SIDE WALL
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