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online_culvert: Hydraulic design of highway culverts by FHWA method

Reference
Hydraulic Design of Highway
Culverts, HDS 5,
Federal Highway Administration,
Third Edition, 2012.

INPUT DATA:
[Description]

Units:

OUTPUT:
[Sample input]

[HW/D Table]

U.S. Customary
SI Units (Metric)

[U.S. units] (SI units)

Discharge Q [cfs] (m /s):

-1

m s

4.1

Inlet invert elevation z1 [ft] (m):

Manning's n:

10

Entrance loss coefficient Ke: 0.5

Exit loss coefficient KE: 1
Number of iterations: 4

Culvert diameter D: 1.372 m

.014
.10

Critical depth yc: 1.077 m

Tailwater depth above outlet invert y2 [ft] (m):

0
m

Normal depth yn: 0.468 m

Bottom slope So:

Culvert length L [ft] (m):

Shoulder elevation Es [ft] (m):

Freeboard Fb [ft] (m):

12.5

Entrance loss coefficient Ke :

Exit loss coefficient KE :

Because critical depth is greater than normal

depth, the flow is supercritical.

12

Because tailwater depth is less than normal

depth, there will be a hydraulic drop at the outlet.
Because the flow is supercritical, the culvert is
under inlet control.

1.0
0.5
0.12
0.03

1.00
0.92
0.72
0.42
0.16

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