Simplified Stress and Deformation Analysis for Pipeline Construction
This paper discusses the strength and deformation behavior of flexible steel pipes during pipeline construction. Some possible simple and quick solutions to these special design and construction...
Longitudinal Prestressed Piping for District Heating
The design of recently installed hot water district heating systems in the United States is based on similar systems developed in Europe. Longitudinal prestressing is used in the design...
Modeling Failure Probability of Underground Pipes
Factors influencing the performance of underground gas pipes are identified through a literature search and contacts with several utility companies. These factors are categorized as (i),...
Stress-Intensification Factor and Flexibility Factor in Seismic Analysis of Continuous Buried Pipelines
The topics of intensified stresses and increased flexibility in pipe bends subjected to bending loads are discussed in this paper. Also discussed are dynamic strain compatibility between...
A Practical Approach to Selection of Waterline Materials for Use in Expansive Soils
The authors previously investigated the performance of asbestos-cement, polyvinyl chloride and ductile iron pipe in the expansive soil environment. Expansive soil forces on the pipe were...
Bending Moment of Underground Flexible Pipes in a Centrifuge
The effect of several factors on bending moment of an underground flexible pipe section buried in a ditch with sheet piling was investigated experimentally by means of centrifugal model...
Field Burial Tests of Corrugated Double Wall PVC Pipe
A new lightweight PVC pipe, consisting of a smooth inner wall and a corrugated outer wall, has been introduced in the U. S. sanitary sewer market in 4 through 10 in. diameters. Field burial...
Dynamics of Buried Pipelines
Forced motion of pipelines due to stationary or moving loads is studied. The pipe is modeled as an elastic shell in an elastic (or viscoelastic) medium. The interaction of the shell and...
Numerical Simulation of Soil-Pipeline Interaction in a Ground Subsidence Zone
In this paper, the flexural interaction between a buried pipeline and the surrounding soil is examined by employing a combined boundary element-finite element scheme. The flexural interaction...
Earth Pressure and Surface Load Effects on Buried Pipelines
Rational techniques for analyzing earth pressure and surface load effects, based on finite element analysis methods, have been developed and applied extensively to the design of buried...
Dynamic Responses of Buried Pipelines
The dynamic responses of the pipelines are analyzed by the continuous mass matrix method by considering the soil as a bounded plane in which the pipeline is placed. The friction between...
Strains Induced by Combined Loading in Buried Pressurized Fiberglass Pipe
In 1983 Owens Corning Fiberglas and Utah State University collaborated on a study of combined strain behavior of fiberglass pipe to quantify the bending strain reduction as a function...
Buried Fiberglass Pipe Performance and Installation Requirements and Design Calculations in International Standardization
This paper elaborates on a proposed standard covering details of fiberglass pipe buried installation requirements and criteria for selection of pipe stiffness. It also discusses the selection...
Characterization of Soil Arching Above Buried Conduits
Conventional ways of assessing the effects of soil arching over buried conduits were examined by means of finite element analyses. It was found that neither of the conventional soil arching...
Longitudinal Stresses in Buried Pipes
Longitudinal stresses are inevitable in buried pipes even in pipes with gasketed joints. Longitudinal stresses in any pipe section are cumulative. They include stresses due to soil friction...
Stress and Strain Responses of a Soil-Pipe System to Vehicular Traffic
A 16-in. natural gas pipeline near Racine, Wisconsin, had been in service for some 30 years. In 1982 road widening operations on a line parallel with the pipe presented the opportunity...
Inspection/Condition Analyses of Large Underground Pipelines
Inspection/Condition Analyses of Underground Pipelines (sewers and conduits) will be a necessary function of the pipeline Owner/Operator. The Condition Analyses and Inspection phases are...
Response of Buried Flexible Plastic Conduits Under Loading
Structural performance of 75 mm and 100 mm diameter plastic conduits embedded in Lloyd clay were examined experimentally in a laboratory soil bin, and numerically by the finite element...
Large Diameter Plastic Pipe Design
This paper presents a rationale for the design of large diameter plastic pipes for gravity flow applications. This procedure, applicable for all plastic pipes, adapts state-of-the-art...
Design of Non-Pressure Very Flexible Plastic Pipe
There is considerable debate about the correct structural design procedure to be used for very flexible plastic pipe (VFP) - typically glass-fiber reinforced pipe (GRP), reinforced plastic...
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