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Condition classification includes the classification of sewers, manholes and constructions of drain and sewer system only on the basis of their structural and operational condition into condition classes and must be carried out by an expert who is independent of the inspectors and with the use of plausibility testing.

The condition classification must take into account the requirements of the sewer system and, also taking ATV-M 143E Part 1 [ATVM143-…

Sewers, manholes and structures of drain and sewer systems that are damaged and/or that leak or that posses obstructions, have an effect on the environment. This impinges on the following aims of protection:

  • Maintaining the purity of the groundwater and the protection of the soil;
  • Maintaining the function of the sewage installations;
  • The stability of structural installations.

An important influence on these aims of protection is the quality of the …

The priorities list presents a sequence of requirements for rehabilitation based on the condition evaluation with reference to structural and operational aspects. It makes possible not only to utilise the financial means for sewer rehabilitation more efficiently but also, by means of analysis of the damage, to formulate development strategies for its prevention. In addition, through the early recognition of structural defects within the scope of …

A summary of basic requirements of a condition classification and evaluation model, called an evaluation system in the following, that conforms to the conditions of EN 752-5 [DINEN752-5:1997] and that takes hydraulic environmental relevant and structural aspects into account, can be taken from ATV-M 149 [ATVM149a]. The aim of this specification is, among others, the creation of comparability and investigation results - independent of the evaluation …

The proposed description of damage with the aid of the damage coding in accordance with ATV-M 143E Part 2 [ATVM143-2], as well as the information on the extent of the damage provides a temporary condition evaluation via the classification of the damage into damage classes.

A classification is made into condition class 0 (immediate measures) and four further classes.

Immediate measures must include sewer conditions that are required to be dealt with …

Sewers, manholes and structures of drain and sewer systems that are damaged and/or posses obstructions, have an effect on the environment. This impinges on several aims of protection. Each of the described features has different effects on the aims of protection, and would therefore have to be weighted with reference to it. Because of the lack of knowledge of the actual effects of the damage to the respective aims of the protection, weighting is …

Exfiltrating sewers in water catchment areas (Abschnitt 6.1) cause damage to a higher level of interests protected by standards or law as in regions without water catchments. The care of groundwater must be set unmistakably higher than malfunctions of the sewage operation caused by defects that must be repaired by means of technical measures of the sewer operation.

The following regions are kept apart from each other:

Catchment area IIIa: The drain …

Taking the protection aims into account, the priorities can be changed for good reasons. Examples of this can be:

  • Downgrading an exfiltrating surface water drain that drains a clean habitable area properly;
  • Downgrading sewers whose construction (redundant pipe, double-walled pipe, etc.) takes the interests protected by standards into particular consideration;
  • Upgrading sewers that endanger groundwater in a particular manner.

The up- and downgrading …

The priorities list is made up of the downgraded evaluation numbers. Its provides a sequence for the measures to be undertaken in the sequence of the condition classes of the type of sewer, the interests protected by standards or law as well as the evaluation or condition points.

In order to be able to check and interpret the evaluation numbers given in the priorities list, the values in the condition evaluation and the up-and downgrading carried out in the reclassification can be read off from the evaluation number (Tabelle 4.7.2.1.6) (Tabelle 4.7.2.1.6).

(Table: Structure of the evaluation number in accordance with ATV-M 149 [ATVM149a])
(Table: Allocating the numbers in accordance with ATV-M 149 [ATVM149a])

In Bild 4.7.2.1.6

With the ATV-M 149 "Zustandsklassifizierung und -bewertung von Entwässerungssystemen außerhalb von Gebäuden" published in April 1999, the Abwassertechnische Vereinigung presents a possible procedure for condition evaluation and classification that contains the execution of the methods presented in Abschnitt 4.7.1 [ATVM149a].

For the damage acquired according to ATV-M 143E Part 2 [ATVM143-2] (Abschnitt 4.6.1), this condition evaluation model makes …

The evaluation of the structural condition is based on the damage description in accordance with ATV-M 143E Part 2 [ATVM143-2] (Abschnitt 4.6.1).

The evaluation of the structural condition with reference to the existing condition as well as the actual extent of the damage, is carried out in the KAPRI model by means of a rigid base evaluation and a dynamic factorising. First, a quantitative base point number is allocated to the general type of the …

Besides the evaluation of the structural condition, the actual potential for danger is estimated and quantified for the defined point of damage on the basis of the specific damage to its environment. Hereby, in the evaluation in accordance with the tasks of a sewer, the aspects of:

  • Stability;
  • Environmental loading;
  • Hydraulic functionality of the sewer

are taken into account. This is carried out in the form of a query of the master data shown in Tabelle …

The complete condition evaluation is found from the linking of the two separately found results, the evaluation of the structural condition as well as the limiting conditions, in the form of a multiplication. It is shown that damage of the same type and the same extent but with different section-specific limiting conditions with a view to their actual potential for danger are judged and evaluated differently from statistical, ecological and functional …

(Image: Diagram of sewer condition evaluation with KAPRI with reference to [Mölleb] [Image: S&P GmbH])

A classification system that has long been used in practice and that has proven itself is the KAPRI system (abbreviation for KAnalsanierungs-PRIoritäten), a development of the Ingenieurbüro für Kanal-instandhaltung (IfK) in Bochum. It takes the requirements of EN 752-5 [DINEN752-5:1997] mentioned in Abschnitt 4.7.1 fully into account.

The basic idea …

At present, the parties who carry the responsibility are in need of a generally valid measure of evaluation for the required condition classification and evaluation, especially when it comes to determining the sequence of rehabilitation with reference to the damage that has occurred and the potentials for danger resulting from them.

Besides the Abwassertechnischen Vereinigung (ATV), various other engineering consultancies, sewer inspection companies …

The causes of the defects must be based on the results of the hydraulic and environmentally relevant and structural investigations (Abschnitt 4.3) (Abschnitt 4.4) (Abschnitt 4.5). The effects of each cause should be evaluated in order to work out suitable solutions and to determine the priorities of the measures to be undertaken. For this purpose, condition classifications and condition evaluations must be gone through within the scope of the evaluation …

According to EN 752-5 [DINEN752-5:1997], after rehabilitation, the nominal condition of a structure, a sewer sector, a section of the sewer, a network region or drain and sewer system must conform at least to the same standards that apply to a new sewer. Naturally, this also applies to the materials and components used [Rothe83].

The loading that is possible and the corresponding characteristics required are given in very general form in Tabelle 5.1

In this rehabilitation measure, neither the manhole tops, nor the surrounding covering and carrier layers, are removed. There follows only the lifting or lowering of the frame that has previously been loosened with the aid of special mechanical or hydraulic machines (Bild 5.2.1.1.1) (Bild 5.2.1.1.1) (Bild 5.2.1.1.1) (Bild 5.2.1.1.1) [WPCFFD6] [NASSCO85a] [WPCF85].

(Image: Height regulation of a manhole top - Lifting the manhole frame to road surface)

The height levelling of manhole tops with removal is always carried out when the surrounding cover layer is also damaged by the formation of cracks, deformation, etc. (Bild 5.2.1.1).

As a rule, the repair is carried out by the removal of the surrounding covering and carrier layers as well as the damaged manhole top including possibly the supporting ring, if there is one, then the installing it again at the desired level.

Subsequently, the surrounding …

An important point in the repair of manholes is the replacement of corroded or broken climbing rungs (climbing irons, safety steps or ladders) (Abschnitt 1.8).

When installing, the installation instructions must be adhered to. It must be ensured that material, shape and step heights per manhole are the same (see ATV-A 137 [ATVA137]) and that the condition of the manhole wall is such that the exchange is permissible from a statics point of view.

The …

Because the structures of drain and sewer systems, and especially the manholes, are mostly constructed of concrete, reinforced concrete or brickwork, the following will deal exclusively with the local restoration of missing portions of these materials.

Such defective areas that can occur in the manhole walls, joints, connection regions, as well as in the benching and the channels, are, for instance:

  • Partial surface corrosion;
  • Ejection of the cover …
(Image: Section of a manhole top with reference to [DINEN124] resp. [DIN19549] [Image: S&P GmbH])
(Image: Positional deviation of the frame of a manhole top [City of Düsseldorf, Germany])

An important share of the repairs to manholes is the regulating and exchange of manhole tops because today, as compared to earlier, much greater demands are made on the evenness of the traffic lane and these are subject to higher loads due to the heavier traffic …

Repair measures to sewers from the outside involve especially the replacement of single or several damaged pipes.

In this case, after placing the section of the sewer out of action, the defective pipe region is exposed using the open cut method (Bild 5.2.1.2), a closer pipe piece with smooth ends is inserted and the new pipe joint is remade with the aid of sleeve joints (Bild 5.2.1.2) (Bild 5.2.1.2) [FI-Naylo] [FI-Stein93].

(Image: Replacing a defective …