May Meeting Notice

Date:

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Topic:

Design and Installation of Corrugated HDPE Pipe for Storm Sewers and Culverts

Location:

Thirsty Pagan
1623 Broadway St., Superior, WI
(MapQuest) (Google Maps)

Time:

3:15 pm

Registration and refreshments, including:

Pizza and beer, soda or water.

3:30 pm

Presentation: Michael Pluimer, TRI-Environmental

Cost:

$15.00 members and non-members, and $7.50 full-time students, payable to MGS at the door. 

Reservations:

(Requested by 12 noon, Wednesday May 1, 2013)

One professional development hour toward continuing education requirements for Professional Engineers is available.

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Design and Installation of Corrugated HDPE Pipe for Storm Sewers and Culverts
Michael Pluimer
TRI-Environmental

Corrugated HDPE pipe is currently manufactured in diameters ranging from 3 inches up to 60 inches. It is used primarily for culverts, storm sewers, and other gravity flow drainage applications. The benefits of this pipe material include long service life, excellent resistance to corrosion and abrasion, cost advantages over competing materials, and ease of installation. This seminar will include a brief overview of the properties and characteristics of corrugated HDPE pipe, and will focus primarily on the design and installation of the product. Since flexible pipes (such as plastic and metal pipes) behave differently than rigid pipes (such as concrete), the installation process is not the same for all pipe types. Proper installation depends on several factors, including the native soil characteristics, the type of installation (trench or embankment), the anticipated loading conditions, the size of the pipe, and the desired service life of the pipe system. The seminar will also cover current post-installation inspection techniques and practices that will ensure the pipe was installed properly and will last its intended service life.

Michael L. Pluimer, Biography
Michael Pluimer, Director of TRI-Environmental’s Pipe Services Division, holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and is a current Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Villanova University. Pluimer previously served as the Director of Engineering for the Plastics Pipe Institute, a trade association comprised of 145 member companies across the United States and Canada. Michael has over 10 years experience in the plastic piping industry, and his work on the service life of corrugated HDPE pipe has been published with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Journal of ASTM International. He is Secretary of ASTM F17.62, Plastic Piping Systems – Sewers, and Secretary of the Transportation Research Board Committee AFF70 on Culverts. Michael also serves on two panels for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. In his free time, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife and two children in northern Minnesota, and competing in marathons and Ironman triathlons.

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