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Drains and ARD General Process ................................................................................ 3 Setup DRAINS Project .................................................................................................. 4 Setup Co-ordinating Databases .................................................................................... 6 Naming Conventions and Creation Processes ................................................................ 6 Doing the Design Step by Step Tutorial..................................................................... 10 Setting up for the Tutorial ............................................................................................. 16
Model Properties:
Rainfall Data DRAINS does its own design of the pipes and pits imported from Advanced Road Design. In order for this to occur users need to establish Rainfall Data and apply those to Select Storms.
Select Storms It is normal to use DRAINS to size the pipes based on Minor storm conditions and to analyse the system performance for the Major storm events. You need to assign the rainfall conditions for each of these events
As well as these aspects users need to set up: - Pipe Data Base - Pit Data Base - Overflow Route Cross Section Data Base
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If you click on Properties for the Pit Size, you can enter the pit characteristics. You must do this in DRAINS.
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OVERFLOW SECTIONS ARD DRAINS Create an Overflow Route Cross Section named ARD.
The ARD cross section is used by default when pit Bypasses are defined in Advanced Road Design and the data is exported to DRAINS. The Define Pit By-pass command creates overland flow paths that can be read into DRAINS. For DRAINS to utilize the data an Overflow Route Cross Section must be defined. By default, the software will look to assign a DRAINS Overflow Rout Cross Section named ARD to apply the cross section parameters required for its analysis.
CATCHMENTS ARD Catchments defined in Advanced Road Design are named - certain naming conventions must be adhered to in order for them to be imported into DRAINS. Catchment names need a PREFIX of EITHER: PA - paved GR grassed SUP supplementary This name is assigned in Advanced Road Design Creating catchments: Catchments from ARD with prefix of PA, GR or SUP will be imported into DRAINS: DRAINS
The drainage layout process in Advanced Road Design is as follows: Drainage Configure o Pipes Use only Class 2 pits Use only sizes 225,300,450,600 or 750 Pits (Pit Inlet Capacities) o o o ONLY use pits QLD#SEP1200 or QLD#SEP2400 in the design (will match with DRAINS) Create up to 5 pits (if using the DEMO version of DRAINS) Name the catchments with prefix of PA, GR or SUP use the saved catchment types to automatically create a catchment with appropriate name Draw Pipe/Pit Network Catchments
Connect Catchment Areas to Pits Define Network select the downstream pit Define Pit Bypass
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Export from Advanced Road Design After laying out the drainage system, export the data for import to DRAINS. Command is Drainage-Data Exchange-Write to Drains:
This creates a database file in the same location as the ARD data:
Import to DRAINS Start DRAINS. Click on File-Open. Then open the file STANDARDSTORMS.drn. This opens a data file containing all the setup information required to receive the Advanced Road Design data file. Check the following:
Hydrological Models Project Setup Create an ILSAX Model if required (one MUST exist in order to import from Advanced Road Design):
Rainfall Data DRAINS does its own design of the pipes and pits imported from Advanced Road Design. In order for this to occur users need to establish Rainfall Data and apply those to Select Storms.
Select Storms DRAINS sizes the pipes based on Major or Minor storm conditions. You need to assign the rainfall conditions for each of these events
Start the command File-Import-Advanced Road Design File: Locate the output file as listed above.
This will create in DRAINS: Pits (with surface elevations from ARD) Pipes (with surface elevations from ARD) Catchments (attached to the Pits and with data from ARD) Overland Flow Routes (using the default Overflow Route Cross Section ARD)
You can review the pits, pipes and overflow routes created:
DRAINS design Use the Run command to analyse and design the pipes/pits. Click on Run-Analyse (you pick the storm analysis) The pipes, pits and overland flows will be resolved:
Export from DRAINS You should check the design and then export to Advanced Road Design.
MAKE SURE that you overwrite the EXISTING file that you used to import data into DRAINS (Drains-1.mdb) Import to Advanced Road Design The updated drainage data can be imported by starting the command Drainage-Data Exchange-Read in Drains Data.
This will update all the pipe sizes/levels as well as starting the Advanced Road Design drainage plotting command: