Manholes, Catch Basins etc. 1

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Anyone familiar with the design of circular , eccentric manholes and catch basins? Which software is more suitable for designing and analyzing variuos shapes and forms of underground utility structures such as manholes, catch basins, risers, drywell etc.? H-20, and hydostatic loading need to be included in the loading options. thanks for your time

 

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Mostly we just design them by hand. Of course, we've developed some spreadsheet applications now but thats all that is normally used.

For circular structures (upended large diameter pipes) I use Elasticity to account for the thick walls. There is a section in Timoshenko/Goodier written for this. I'm sure you could find something in Roarks as well.