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  • BS 5834-4:1989

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    Surface boxes, guards and underground chambers for gas and waterworks purposes Specification for preformed chambers

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  31-05-2011

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  29-09-1989

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Foreword
    Committees responsible
    Section one. General
    1. Scope
    2. Definitions
    3. Grading
    4. Marking
    Section two. Reinforced concrete units
    5. Materials
    6. Manufacture and workmanship
    7. Design features and dimensions
    8. Design loading tests
    9. Sampling tests
    Section three. GRP units
    10. General
    11. Materials
    12. Manufacture and workmanship
    13. Design features and dimensions
    14. Design criteria
    15. Production tests
    Appendices
    A. Optional items to be agreed between the
         manufacturer and the purchaser
    B. Loading tests
    C. Crushing strength tests of reinforced concrete
         intermediate wall sections
    D. Method for the determination of the initial
         specific stiffness of base wall sections for GRP
         chambers
    Tables
    1. Maximum total chloride content
    2. Nominal internal size of chamber
    3. Bearing slab aperture sizes
    4. Slot sizes in RC base wall units
    5. Clear opening sizes and design test loads for
         adaptor slabs
    6. Chamber plan dimensions
    7. Minimum size of pipe opening
    8. Vertical loads for GRP units
    9. Classification of specific tangential stiffness
    Figures
    1. Typical concrete chamber units and arrangements
    2. Rebated joints for concrete units
    3. Typical GRP chambers
    4. Loading positions for adaptor slabs
    5. Testing arrangements for the crushing test for
         reinforced concrete sections
    6. Typical loading arrangements for non-circular
         sections with variable cross-section

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    Describes preformed underground chamber elements for use with surface boxes to BS 5834 : Parts 2 and 3. Materials covered are reinforced concrete (RC) and units of glass fibre reinforced polyester (GRP) made by hand lay-up and spray-up manufacture only. Includes an appendix summarising optional items to be agreed between the maker and the purchaser.

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    Committee B/504
    Development Note Supersedes 87/10293 DC (08/2005)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

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    BS 3892-2:1984 Pulverized-fuel ash Specification for pulverized-fuel ash for use in grouts and for miscellaneous uses in concrete
    BS 5075-3:1985 Concrete admixtures Specification for superplasticizing admixtures
    BS 1881-111:1983 Testing concrete Method of normal curing of test specimens (20°C method)
    BS 1881-116:1983 Testing concrete Method for determination of compressive strength of concrete cubes
    BS 5075-1:1982 Concrete admixtures Specification for accelerating admixtures, retarding admixtures and water reducing admixtures
    BS 3496:1989 Specification for E glass fibre chopped strand mat for reinforcement of polyester and other liquid laminating systems
    BS 1881-120:1983 Testing concrete Method for determination of the compressive strength of concrete cores
    BS 957-2:1969 Specification for feeler gauges Metric units
    BS 4483:1985 Specification for steel fabric for the reinforcement of concrete
    BS 5834-3:1985 Surface boxes, guards and underground chambers for gas and waterworks purposes Specification for large surface boxes
    BS 5075-2:1982 Concrete admixtures Specification for air-entraining admixtures
    BS 1881-108:1983 Testing concrete Method for making test cubes from fresh concrete
    BS 6588:1985 Specification for Portland pulverized-fuel ash cement
    BS 1610-2:1985 Materials testing machines and force verification equipment Specification for the grading of equipment used for the verification of the forces applied by materials testing machines
    BS 4461:1978 Specification for cold worked steel bars for the reinforcement of concrete
    BS 6699:1986 Specification for ground granulated blastfurnace slag for use with Portland cement
    BS 5834-2:1983 Surface boxes, guards and underground chambers for gas and waterworks purposes Specification for small surface boxes
    BS 3892-1:1982 Pulverized-fuel ash Specification for pulverized-fuel ash for use as a cementitious component in structural concrete
    BS 3532:1962 Specification for unsaturated polyester resin systems for low pressure fibre reinforced plastics
    BS 4440:1974 Glossary of basic terms for fishing nets
    BS 882:1983 Specification for aggregates from natural sources for concrete
    BS 146-2:1973 Specification for Portland-blastfurnace cement. Metric units
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