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Instructor:  Matthew Zeve, P.E. CFM, M.ASCE

Course Length: 1 Hour

Purpose and Background

The analysis of culvert hydraulics is a common task faced by engineers working on transportation, land development, and flood control projects. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center’s HECRAS software program is a widely used tool for various open channel hydraulics analysis and design tasks. One facet of this software package is an implementation of the Federal Highway Administration’s Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts (HDS-5) document. Although an analysis of the hydraulic effects of a culvert in a channel can be completed with HEC-RAS relatively easily, oftentimes a more in-depth approach is required. The various computation methods and variables involved can produce more than one “correct” answer. Additionally, other factors in the simulation in addition to the culvert structures can affect the hydraulic analysis results. This webinar will take an in-depth look at culvert hydraulics analysis with HEC-RAS. The course will assume that participants have a good understanding of using the HEC-RAS program and the culvert hydraulic analysis features. The webinar will provide a discussion on more complicated culvert analysis issues and provide examples and suggestions on how to tackle difficult culvert analysis problems. Emphasis will be placed on output review to help participants gain a better understanding of reasonableness of HEC-RAS results.

Learning Outcomes and Webinar Benefits

This webinar will provide engineers with a more in-depth look at culvert hydraulics within the HEC-RAS software package. The webinar will give insight in the calculation methodology employed by the program and allow for a better understanding of model output.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify how to apply analysis methods to complex culvert scenarios
• Discuss complex culvert hydraulics problems
• Gain a better understanding of model results
• Analyze output for reasonableness

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

Civil engineers seeking an advanced course on culvert hydraulics calculations within the HEC-RAS software program will benefit from this webinar. Participants should be very familiar with culvert hydraulic analysis using the HEC-RAS software program before taking this course.

Webinar Outline

• Culvert modeling scenario descriptions
• Discussion of modeling approach
• Examples in the model
• Analysis of model output

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]