Elastoplastic Solution for Soil-Pipe-Tunnel Interaction
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 7
Abstract
Solutions for the problem of tunneling effects on existing pipelines are given. The solution utilizes a boundary integral formulation for describing the elastic continuum, in conjunction with a limiting force to consider relative pullout failure. The solution requires estimation of soil and pipe elastic properties, relative pipe-soil uplift capacity, and the green field soil settlement profile given in the current paper as a modified Gaussian curve. Normalized graphs for the solution are given as a function of these input parameters. The solution method is compared and evaluated against a limited number of finite-element analysis.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to express their sincere gratitude to the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) for sponsoring the research described in this paper. Furthermore, the writers are grateful to the British Technion Society for enabling the collaboration between the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, without which this paper would not have been possible.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 133 • Issue 7 • July 2007
Pages: 782 - 792
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Received: Dec 20, 2005
Accepted: Dec 11, 2006
Published online: Jul 1, 2007
Published in print: Jul 2007
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