Download or read book Structural Mechanics of Buried Pipes written by Reynold King Watkins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-12-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buried pipes are a highly efficient method of transport. In fact, only open channels are less costly to construct. However, the structural mechanics of buried pipes can be complicated, and imprecisions in the properties of the soil envelope are usually too great to justify lengthy, complicated analyses. Designers and engineers need principles and m