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Numerical Investigation on the Deformational Behavior of Continuous Buried Pipelines Under Reverse Faulting

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Steel pipelines are vulnerable to the movements of active faults. Few studies focused on reverse faults. The deformational behavior of buried steel pipelines crossing an active reverse fault is investigated in this paper by applying 3D continuum finite element modeling. Numerical simulations indicate that local buckling (or wrinkling) mode of failure is more sensitive to the pipeline rather than tensile failure mode. The results were also confirmed by the experiment. Based on parametric studies, the pipeline capacity against failure can be significantly improved by reducing the burial depth and the pipe thickness ratio. Besides, the soil consistency around the pipe has a great effect on the behavior of buried pipelines. Furthermore, it is found out that the failed pipeline sections would be generated in longer distance from the fault plane as the soil behaves more softly or the pipeline is more flexible. These findings can lead the designers to have a safer and economic design of pipelines crossing reverse faulting zones.

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Abbreviations

c :

Soil cohesion

C c :

Coefficient of curvature

C u :

Coefficient of uniformity

D :

Pipe diameter

D 50 :

The average particle size of soil

E :

Soil elastic Young’s modulus

E 1 :

Elastic Young’s modulus of pipe

E 2 :

Plastic Young’s modulus of pipe

E i :

Initial Young’s modulus of pipe in the Ramberg–Osgood stress–strain equation

f :

Friction factor

G s :

Specific gravity

H :

Burial depth of the pipeline

n :

Ramberg–Osgood parameter

R :

Pipe radius

r :

Ramberg–Osgood parameter

t :

Pipe wall thickness

β :

Fault dip angle

δ :

Interface angle of friction for pipe and soil

γ :

Total unit weight of soil

γ d :

Dry unit weight of soil

ε 1 :

Initial yield strain of pipeline

ε 2 :

Failure strain of pipeline

ɛ c :

Compressive strain

ɛ t :

Tensile strain

ɛ u :

Ultimate strain

ε a :

Axial strain

µ :

Coefficient of friction

ν :

Poisson’s ratio

σ 0 :

Effective yield stress

σ 1 :

Initial yield stress of pipeline

σ 2 :

Failure stress of pipeline

σ a :

Maximum axial stress

ϕ :

Internal friction angle of soil

ψ :

Dilation angle of soil

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Monshizadeh Naeen, A., Seyedi Hosseininia, E. Numerical Investigation on the Deformational Behavior of Continuous Buried Pipelines Under Reverse Faulting. Arab J Sci Eng 45, 8475–8490 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-04766-2

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