Residual Shear Strength for Interfaces between Pipelines and Clays at Low Effective Normal Stresses
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 6
Abstract
The residual shear strength mobilized between pipelines and supporting soils at low effective normal stresses is needed for designing stable pipelines in offshore environments. A tilt table device is used to study the effect that effective normal stress, type of pipeline coating, composition of soil, stress history, and rate of loading have on the drained residual shear strength mobilized at the interface between a variety of clays and polymeric pipe coatings. The drained residual friction angles for both the interfaces and the clays decrease substantially as the effective normal stress increases. Empirical correlations published for predicting the residual strength of clays cannot be readily extrapolated to the pipeline problem because the correlations do not cover the relatively small effective normal stresses acting on pipelines. Residual shear strengths for the interfaces range from 60 to 90% of the residual shear strength for the clay. The residual shear strength for the interface depends both on the composition of the clay and the type of pipeline coating.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to thank BP’s Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Production business unit for supporting this work. The authors also wish to acknowledge the support of Mark Brunner from Technip Offshore Inc., Engineering. In addition, Muhammad Khan, an undergraduate student in civil engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is thanked for his assistance in conducting the tilt table tests. Finally, the Offshore Technology Research Center is acknowledged for its support of geotechnical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 133 • Issue 6 • June 2007
Pages: 695 - 706
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© 2007 ASCE.
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Received: Jun 24, 2004
Accepted: Apr 25, 2006
Published online: Jun 1, 2007
Published in print: Jun 2007
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