Journal of Lanzhou University of Technology ›› 2020, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 34-40.

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Vertical earth pressure calculation model for buried pipelines with straight grooves

AN Zong-wen, WANG Ying-ying, ZHANG Yong-ming   

  1. College of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Lanzhou Univ. of Tech., Lanzhou 730050, China
  • Received:2018-10-23 Online:2020-10-28 Published:2020-11-06

Abstract: In order to solve the problem that the steel-plastic conversion structure parts in the trench pipeline, which are subject to the soil loading, are easy to deform and fracture, leading further to the failure of the structure parts and the leakage of the pipeline, a soil-caused vertical pressure calculation model, which is based on the theory of double shear unified strength, for rigid/flexible buried pipeline has been derived and established in this paper. The validity of the model is analyzed and verified by our examples calculated. The proposed model takes effects of main stress as well as back-filling soil into account. It is therefore shown that compared with Marston's theory the pressure value calculated by our model is reduced by 40%, which provides a new method for soil-caused vertical pressure calculation for straight groove buried pipeline.

Key words: straight groove trench-buried culverts, vertical earth pressure, unified strength theory

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