ASTM C822-02

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Designation: C 822 – 02
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Concrete Pipe and Related Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation C 822; 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 (e) 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 specimen to axial compressive loading; or the specified
resistance used in design calculations.
1.1 ASTM Standards:
concrete—a homogeneous mixture of portland cement, fine
C 497 Test Methods for Concrete Pipe, Manhole Sections,
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aggregate, coarse aggregate, and water. The mixture may
or Tile
also contain admixtures, or other cementitious materials, or
2. Terminology both.
core—a cylinder of concrete obtained from concrete by means
absorption—the increase in weight of concrete resulting from
of a core drill.
the penetration of water into the concrete.
crown—the top or highest point of the internal surface of the
absorption test—a test made to determine the absorption of
transverse cross section of a pipe.
concrete.
culvert—a pipeline intended to convey water under a highway,
admixture—a material other than water, aggregates, cement
railroad, canal, or similar facility.
and fibre reinforcing used as an ingredient of concrete and
cylinder (test)—a cast cylindrical specimen of concrete.
added to the batch immediately before or during its mixture.
design strength—the minimum acceptable 0.01-in. (0.3-mm)
annular space—the space between the inner surface of the
crack D-load.
female end and the outer surface of the male end of an
designated size—the dimensional name for a particular size
assembled pipe joint.
that may or may not be equal to or related to the dimensions
bell—see female end of pipe.
used for design purposes or of the manufactured product.
blend—a combining of various cementitious materials.
distribution reinforcement—reinforcement, typically running
box section—a concrete pipe with a rectangular cross section.
90° to the main or circumferential reinforcement, intended to
box section bottom slab—lower horizontal portion of a box
disperse concentrated loads to larger areas of a structural
section in the installed condition.
member.
box section top slab—upper horizontal portion of a box
D-load—the supporting strength of a pipe loaded under
section in the installed condition.
three-edge-bearing test conditions expressed in pounds per
box section wall—vertical sides of a box section in the
linear foot per foot of inside diameter or horizontal span, or
installed condition.
expressed in newtons per linear metre per millimetre of
cage—an assembled unit of steel reinforcement consisting of
inside diameter or horizontal span.
circumferential and longitudinal bars or wires.
D-load, 0.01-in. (0.3-mm) crack—the maximum three-edge-
circular reinforcement—a circular-shaped line of reinforce-
bearing test load supported by a concrete pipe before a crack
ment.
having a width of 0.01 in. (0.3 mm) occurs, measured at
circumferential reinforcement—reinforcement that is ap-
close intervals, throughout a continuous length of 1 ft (300
proximately perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the
mm) or more measured parallel to the longitudinal axis of
concrete pipe.
pipe barrel expressed as D-load.
combined sewer—a pipeline intended to convey sewage and
D-load ultimate (Du)—the maximum three-edge-bearing test
storm water.
load supported by a pipe, expressed as D-load.
compression test—a test made on a concrete specimen to
drain tile—pipe for collecting and conveying surface and
determine the compressive strength.
subsurface water from an area.
compressive strength—the maximum resistance of a concrete
elliptical reinforcement—a line of reinforcement in the ap-
proximate shape of an ellipse.
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee C13 on
exfiltration—the volume of pipeline flow leaving a sewer and
Concrete Pipe and are the direct responsibility of Subcommittee C13.10 on
its connections into the soil from pipe, joints, connections,
Correlation and Editorial.
and appurtenances.
Current edition approved June 10, 2002. Published August 2002. Originally
published as C 822–75. Last previous edition C 822–01a.
external load-crushing strength test—a test of the pipe in
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 04.05.
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