Construction Monitoring of a Municipal Gas Pipeline during Horizontal Directional Drilling
Publication: Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
Volume 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is an important technology for the placement of municipal pipelines, including water and sewer lines. This paper describes the in situ monitoring of the installation of a gas pipeline during HDD construction by using a gyroscope position-detection system and fiber optic sensing technique. The three dimensional (3D) spatial coordinates of the overall pipeline have been measured, allowing calculation of the product pipe strains and corresponding axial forces and moments during the installation. The results verify that the longitudinal strains and the section moments are sharply increased as the pipe traverses the bore path, with a simultaneous bend in the horizontal and vertical planes. The recorded data is available for the further theoretical analysis, as desired, and the monitoring strategy can be adopted for other similar projects.
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Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Project: 2011BAK02B04) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project: 51008236) for the financial support of this research project.
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Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
Volume 4 • Issue 4 • November 2013
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Dec 7, 2012
Accepted: Jul 25, 2013
Published online: Aug 19, 2013
Published in print: Nov 1, 2013
Discussion open until: Jan 19, 2014
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