Abstract
Based on the Winkler method, a pipe can be treated as a beam, and pipe-soil interactions can be represented by soil springs in the axial, horizontal and vertical directions. Pipe deflection and resultant forces are correlated by coefficient K in the equation F=Kδ, where F is the resultant force and δ is the pipe displacement. This paper studies pipe-soil interaction for pipelines buried in clay and sand subjected to displacements in oblique directions. The objective is to measure the effect of soil parameters on coefficient K as well as the maximum soil resistance. Pipe-soil behavior has been studied using the finite element software ABAQUS/CAE. There are 48 models in total with varying soil parameters, pipe burial depth and pipe-soil interaction friction for the investigation of the effect of each variable on pipe-soil behavior. In addition, the finite element results have been compared to the analytical results from American Lifelines Alliance guideline (ALA, 2001) and proposed failure envelopes in previous studies.Copyright © 2014 by ASME
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The different versions of the original document can be found in:
- https://nuclearengineering.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IPC/proceedings/IPC2014/46100/V001T03A021/259917,
- https://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2022515,
- http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2022515,
- https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2729801960
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Published on 01/01/2014
Volume 2014, 2014
DOI: 10.1115/ipc2014-33364
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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