Pipeline function determines performance requirements of joints.
The first documented U.S. installation of concrete pipe was in Mohawk, N.Y., in 1842. Since then, the design, manufacture, installation, and inspection of concrete wastewater pipelines has grown in complexity.
That complexity has placed increasing demand for critical buried infrastructure of highest quality and reliability that resists natural and man-made calamities. Standard specifications have been initiated, revised, and revised again as more stringent demands are placed on concrete pipeline system components.
Pipeline system joints are no exception because the function of the collection system is dependent upon the performance of the joints.
See the article on pp. 36-37 and the ACPA ad on p. 30
