Abstract
Concrete pipes are used widely in sewage pipeline networks due to their superior stiffness, bearing capacity, and low price. However, as the service age increases, the microorganisms inside the pipeline react with the concrete pipe walls and induce concrete pipe wall corrosion. Microbiologically induced corrosion (MIC) is serious corrosion in concrete sewage pipe walls, resulting in a reduction of the wall’s thickness and causing the cover soil above the buried pipeline to collapse. The real-time corrosion in concrete sewage pipe walls was simulated in this study. A numerical simulation of the MIC in concrete sewage pipes was performed using the software COMSOL Multiphysics, in which the randomness of the MIC was considered by introducing the random distribution of concrete porosity and corrosive substance concentration; the influence of the turbulence and the transfer rate of were considered by zoning the section of the pipe wall. Combined with the probability density evolution theory, a probability model is proposed to predict the maximum corrosion depth of the concrete sewage pipe wall. The results show that the maximum corrosion depth in the pipeline is more likely to occur in the vicinity of the sewage level and the pipe crown, and its dispersion increases with time and decreases as corrosive substance concentration increases. After verification, the model presented can be used to predict the time-dependent reliability and the service life of concrete sewage pipes.
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Some or all data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
The support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0802400) and Tongji University (No. 0200219296) is greatly appreciated.
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