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 The main objective of this paper is to investigate the dynamic performance and behaviour glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) mortar pipes under heavy truck loads. According field conditions, a finite element analysis (FEDA) model GRP pipe culverts was established. Modal vibration system carried out, natural frequencies with 26.6Hz,32Hz,35.7Hz corresponding mode shapes were obtained. On ...

The safety of lifelines, as the most important urban facilities, under different conditions highly depends on the safe design and performance of these buried structures. This cannot be achieved unless their actual behaviors are well understood and considered at the designing stage. A new physical model was developed in Amirkabir University of Technology to study the behavior of buried pipes und...

Buried water and gas pipe systems form part of critical infrastructure providing essential services to the community. In many global population centres including in Australia, this vital infrastructure has been installed several decades ago, and dealing with frequent pipe failures become a major problem. There are clear evidences that pipe failures significantly depend on pipe strains induced b...

Considering the numerous applications of the study of the flow due to leakage in a buried pipe in unsaturated porous media, finding a proper model to explain the influence of the effective factors is of great importance.There are various important factors involved in this type of flow such as: pipe leakage size and location, burial depth, the degree of the saturation of the surrounding porous m...

Methods for estimating structural reliability using probability ideas are well established. When the residual ultimate strength of a buried pipeline is exceeded the limit, breakage becomes imminent and the overall reliability of the pipe distribution network is reduced. This paper is concerned with estimating structural failure of underground flexible pipes due to corrosion induced excessive de...

Introduction The inspection requirements of pipes that have an operational history of many tens of years have lead to the adoption of new maintenance practices and safety standards. The solution currently considered as best maintenance practice is the direct assessment of 100% of the pipelines with the minimum possible economical impact. The use of RBI (Risk Based Inspection) methods and the in...

EFFECT OF CONCENTRATED LOADS ON SHALLOW BURIED POLYVINYL CHLORIDE AND POLYETHYLENE TUBING by TIMOTHY JAMES MCGRATH Submitted to the Department of Civil Engineering on June 27, 1975 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Civil Engineering 0 This thesis presents a study of the behavior of PVC and corrugated PE plastic pipe under simulated wheel loads. Da...