ASTM C822-10

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Designation:C822–10
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Concrete Pipe and Related Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation C822; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
1. Referenced Documents cage—an assembled unit of steel reinforcement consisting of
2 circumferential and longitudinal bars or wires.
1.1 ASTM Standards:
circular reinforcement—a circular-shaped line of reinforce-
C497 Test Methods for Concrete Pipe, Manhole Sections, or
ment.
Tile
circumferential reinforcement—reinforcement that is ap-
2. Terminology proximately perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the
concrete pipe, box, or structure.
absorption—the increase in weight of concrete resulting from
combined sewer—a pipeline intended to convey sewage and
the penetration of water into the concrete.
storm water.
absorption test—a test made to determine the absorption of
compression test—a test made on a concrete specimen to
concrete.
determine the compressive strength.
admixture—a material other than water, aggregates, cement
compressive strength—the maximum resistance of a concrete
and fibre reinforcing used as an ingredient of concrete and
specimen to axial compressive loading; or the specified
added to the batch immediately before or during its mixture.
resistance used in design calculations.
annular space—the space between the inner surface of the
concrete—a homogeneous mixture of portland cement, fine
female end and the outer surface of the male end of an
aggregate, coarse aggregate, and water. The mixture may
assembled pipe joint.
also contain admixtures, or other cementitious materials, or
bell—see female end of pipe.
both.
blend—a combining of various cementitious materials.
core—a cylinder of concrete obtained from concrete by means
box section—a concrete pipe with a rectangular cross section.
of a core drill.
box section bottom slab—lower horizontal portion of a box
crown—the top or highest point of the internal surface of the
section in the installed condition.
transverse cross section of a pipe.
box section top slab—upper horizontal portion of a box
culvert—a pipeline intended to convey water under a highway,
section in the installed condition.
railroad, canal, or similar facility.
box section wall—vertical sides of a box section in the
cylinder (test)—a cast cylindrical specimen of concrete.
installed condition.
design strength—the minimum acceptable 0.01-in. (0.3-mm)
crack D-load.
designated size—the dimensional name for a particular size
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee C13 on that may or may not be equal to or related to the dimensions
Concrete Pipe and are the direct responsibility of Subcommittee C13.10 on
used for design purposes or of the manufactured product.
Correlation and Editorial.
distribution reinforcement—reinforcement,typicallyrunning
Current edition approved Dec. 1, 2010. Published December 2010. Originally
90° to the main or circumferential reinforcement, intended to
approved in 1975. Last previous edition approved in 2008 as C822 – 08a. DOI:
10.1520/C0822-10.
disperse concentrated loads to larger areas of a structural
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D-load—the supporting strength of a pipe loaded under
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
the ASTM website. three-edge-bearing test conditions expressed in pounds per
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C822–10
linear foot per foot of inside diameter or horizontal span, or joint—a connection of two pipe, manhole, or box section ends,
expressed in newtons per linear metre per millimetre of made either with or without the use of additional parts and/or
inside diameter or horizontal span. materials.
D-load, 0.01-in. (0.3-mm) crack—the maximum three-edge- joint angular deflection—change in alignment commencing
bearing test load supported by a concrete pipe before a crack in the joint caused by opening or closing one side of the
having a width of 0.01 in. (0.3 mm) occurs, measured at joint.
close intervals, throughout a continuous length of 1 ft (300 joint at normal (design) closure—position of the joint when
mm) or more measured parallel to the longitudinal axis of closed to the manufacturer’s recommended inside longitudi-
p
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