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- Title
- Seismic Response Behavior of Buried Pipelines. (Seismic Vulnerability, Behavior and Design of Underground Piping Systems).
- File
- PB291413.pdf
- Author(s)
- Wang, L. R. L.; Cheng, K. M.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., June 1978, 16 p.
- Abstract
- Overall aims of this research are to develop a systematic way of assessing the adequacy and vulnerability of water/sewer distribution systems subjected to seismic loads and also to develop future design methodologies for water/sewer systems. This paper reports pipeline damages caused by earthquake excitations in the longitudinal direction of a pipeline have been observed to be a major mode of failure. A simplified quasi-static seismic deformation analysis neglecting the dynamic terms for burid pipelines subjected to earthquake motions in the axial direction is proposed. The analysis involves the solution of a system of static equilibrium equations of a pipeline which consists of rigid pipe-segments and flexible joint springs. Using this model, parametric studies involving soil-pipe interaction parameters, time delay of the traveling seismic waves, soil variations along the pipeline, end conditions, and variation of the seismic wave form are performed. Results obtained indicate that the delay time of seismic waves and the non-uniformity of soil resistance have much greater effects on the response behavior of buried pipelines than other parameters.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Water pipes; Seismic waves; Buried pipelines; Subsurface structures; Earth movements; Dynamic response; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Sewer pipes; Pipelines; Earthquakes