Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
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Tom O’Rourke
Thomas R. Briggs
Professor
of Engineering
Cornell University
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chalermpat
Joe Chipalowsky Christina Argyrou Jai Jung
Pariya-Ekkasut
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPICS
• Underground Assets • (Tunneling Effects on Pipelines)
• Soil/Pipe Interface • Next Generation Pipelines
• Soil/Pipeline Interaction • Pipeline System Performance
• 2D and 3D Behavior • Impact on Communities
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TOPIC
• Underground Assets
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U.S. PIPELINE INVENTORY
• 489,000 km Gas & Liquid Fuel Transmission
Lines
• 2,035,000 km Gas Distribution Lines
• 67 Million Gas Service Lines
• 1,900,000 km Water Distribution Lines
• $2.4 Trillion Water Pipeline Replace Value
• 1 km Pipeline Every 9 Minutes in US
• 1 km Pipeline Every 1-2 Minutes Worldwide
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US PIPELINE INVENTORY
(Water)
DEP (NYC)
99% of Gas
Distribution
Pipelines
≤ 600 mm
90-95% (PHMSA,
≤ 600 mm 2015)
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UNDERGROUND
INFRASTRUCTURE
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KOREAN PIPELINE NEWS CAST
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EXTREME SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
•Earthquakes
•Hurricanes and Floods
•Landslides: Aerial and Submarine
•Tunneling and Deep Excavations
•Subsidence
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EXTREME SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
Soil Material & Geometric Pipeline Material &
Nonlinearities Geometric Nonlinearities
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TOPIC
• Soil/Pipe Interface
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TACTILE PRESSURE
SENSORS
50 X 40 cm plan dimensions
~ 2000 sensels
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PLANE STRAIN EXPERIMENTS
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Expanded
N ds = Rd
View
FH p( θ) R
O
θ O
a) Shear Stress b) Normal Stress θ c) Expanded
Orientation Distribution θ View
p(θ)cosθ
p(θ)tanδsinθ
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Expanded p(θ)
R=D/2
View
τ(θ)
θ
pH θ dS=Rd
O
pmax O
dθ
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= 10 mm = 30 mm = 120 mm
a) Side Sensor
= 10 mm = 30 mm = 120 mm
b) Centerline Sensor
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SOIL PRESSURE DISTRIBTION
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fT = pNtanδ and fA = pHtanδ
Plot fT/fA vs tanδ p(θ)
θ
θ
θ
p(θ)cosθ
p(θ)tanδsinθ
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fT/fA VS tanδ
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fT 1.531
=
𝑓𝐴 1.273 + 0.672 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝛿
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COUPLED TRANSVERSE & LONGITUDINAL SOIL FORCES
Gap Element:
Links Forces
Normal with
Forces Parallel
to Pipe By
Coulomb
Friction Law
fT pN tan
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LESSONS: SOIL-PIPE INTERFACE
• Relationship Between Soil Force Normal to Pipe
Surface vs Force Normal to Pipe Longitudinal
Axis Is Key for Modeling Coupled Soil-Pipe
Interaction
• Evaluation of Friction Along Pipe from Soil
Force Normal to Longitudinal Axis.
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPIC
• Soil/Pipeline Interaction
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SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
• Nonlinear Interaction
Relationships
Calibrated by Full-
Scale Experiments
• Can Replicate
Complex Interactions
in Pipe & Soil
• 3-D Continuum
P
Modeling Evolving; y
Still Challenges
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SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION MODELS
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PLANE STRAIN & DIRECT SHEAR STRENGTH
d/2 ’ Pole for
(dyy, dyx/2) planes
(’ff, ’ff) (’yy, ’yx)
’ds
Direct Shear
ψ d O ’ps C
ψ ’
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GLACIAL FLUVIAL SAND
d ds-p ps-p ψp
Density
(kN/m3) (degrees) (degrees) (degrees)
300 mm
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LARGE-SCALE 2-D TESTS
North 2.4 m
m
4
2.
1.8 m
Direction of Buried
pipe movement pipe
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Analytical Model:
MC Yield Surface
Strain Compatible Modulus
Strain Softening from Peak
Shear
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Vert Dist,mm
Horizontal Distance, mm
Void
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SIMULATION VS FULL-SCALE TEST RESULTS
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MAXIMUM DIMENSIONLESS SOIL REACTION FORCE
Lateral Force Uplift Force
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SOIL-PIPE INTERACTION FOR DIFFERENT
MOVEMENT DIRECTIONS
Oblique
Vertical
Downward
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MAX VERTICAL BEARING FORCE
Bearing Force
is ½ to 1/3
Conventional
Bearing Capacity
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OBLIQUE SOIL-PIPE INTERACTION
N qOU iU N qVU
N qOD i D N qVD
Fqim 0.25 up N qH
iU 1 1
90 0.75 N
up qVU
0.25 down N qH
i D 1 1
Fqim Nqim H c DL 90 0.75 down
N qVD
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MULTI-DIRECTIONAL SOIL-PIPE INTERACTION
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SOIL-PIPE FORCE VS DISPLACEMENT RELATIONSHIPS
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SUCTION IN PARTIALLY SATURATED SOILS
Precipitation
Transpiration
Infiltration Evaporation
Meniscus formed
between particles
Water table
Pores filled with
water
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SUCTION EFFECTS IN PARTIALLY SATURATED SOILS
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DESIGN PROCEDURE
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EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION
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HDPE SIMULATION VS MEASURED RESPONSE
Strike Slip
Fault
Displacement:
250-mm Pipe
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STRIKE SLIP: AXIAL/BENDING STRAINS
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LESSONS: SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
• Integrated Methodology for Soil-Pipe
Interaction for All Pipe Movement Directions
and Depths: Hc/D ≥ 2
• Simulations Show Vertical Downward Soil/Pipe
Reaction Force ~ ½ to 1/3 Conventional
Bearing Capacity Force
• Suction-Enhanced Soil-Pipe Force
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPIC
• 2D AND 3D BEHAVIOR
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3D SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
• Steel, HDPE and Cast
Iron
• Frequently Used D/t s
• D/L = 10
D
D = 900 mm
L
D/t = 96
600mm
HDPE Cast
400mm Iron
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3D SOIL-PIPELINE INTERACTION
SFPUC Alameda Siphon No. 4 • 1.7-m-diameter
Calaveras Fault Crossing Pipeline
• X-36 Steel
• 25 mm Wall
Thickness to
Resist Ovaling
• Polyethylene
Wrapped Around
Fusion Bonded
Nisar et al. (2015) Epoxy
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPIC
• Next Generation Hazard
Resilient Pipelines
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NEXT GENERATION HAZARD-RESILIENT PIPELINES
Wall Street
Journal Photo
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NEXT GENERATION HAZARD-RESILIENT PIPELINES
6 in.
8.6º
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LARGE-SCALE TESTING: NEXT GENERATION INFASTRUCTURE
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ORIENTED POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVCO) JOINTS
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ORIENTED POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVCO) JOINTS
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CONTROLLED
BUCKLING
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CONTROLLED BUCKLING
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LESSONS: NEXT GENERATION (HAZARD-
RESILIENT) PIPELINES
• Paradigm Shift in Pipeline Technology
• Market-Driven Research Funded by
Industry
• Can’t Have Resilience Unless You Have a
Market
• Next Generation Hazard-Resilient Pipeline
Simulation Models
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ADVANCED SENSORS
• Collaboration Among University of Cambridge,
Cornell, and UC Berkeley
• Demonstrate Proof of Concept
• Distributed Fiber Optics
• Joint Movement
• Pipeline Bending Strains & Displacement
• Time Domain Reflectometry
• Leakage
• Underground Wireless
• Data Transmission Without Wires
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LESSONS: NEXT GENERATION (HAZARD-
RESILIENT) PIPELINES
• Paradigm Shift in Pipeline Technology
• Market-Driven Research Funded by
Industry
• Can’t Have Resilience Unless You Have a
Intelligence
• Next Generation Hazard-Resilient Pipeline
Simulation Models
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPIC
• Pipeline System Performance
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CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE
• ~ 185 Deaths
• CBD Destroyed
– ~ 1800 CBD Bldgs.
Demolished
– ~ 55,000 Residences Christchurch
Damaged
• > $30(US) B Direct
Losses ≈ 20 % GDP Christchurch
• Massive Liquefaction&
Infrastructure Damage
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CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE
MW = 5.7
MW = 7.1 14 Feb 16
MW = 5.9
4 Sept 10 23 Dec 11
MW = 6.0
13 June 11
MW = 6.2
22 Feb 11
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CHRISTCHURCH LIQUEFACTION
52 km2
96 km2
91 km2
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CHRISTCHURCH
LIQUEFACTION IN
SAN FRANCISCO
Liquefied
Area
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LIGHT DETECTION & RANGING (LiDAR)
• High Resolution
LiDAR
Measurements
• Settlement on 5-m
• Lateral
Movement
on 4 & 56-m
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GROUND DEFORMATION METRICS
• From Boscardin & Cording (1989) for Building Damage:
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EARTHQUAKE PIPELINE DAMAGE
Asbestos
Cement (AC)
Polyvinyl
Chloride
(PVC)
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PIPELINE
0 0.5 1 2 3 INFRASTRUCTURE
4 72
SCREENING CRITERIA
• Assume Poisson Distribution for Repairs
p ( RR) x (1 p
Poisson distribution: μ = (RR)x, and σ = [(RR)x]½
Sampled repairs follow normal distr. (central limit theorem)
1
p
c
1
x c RR
2 2
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MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL LATERAL STRAIN
• Create Bilinear v4
y, v
v3
Quadrilateral
u4 u3
4 3
Finite Element x, u
from Lateral u1 1 2 u2
Displacements v1 v2
at Grid Corners
to Determine
Principal Strain
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REPAIR RATE VS ANGULAR DISTORTION AND LATERAL STRAIN
Angular Lateral
r2 = 0.86
Distortion Strain
on 5-m From
Spacing 4 m x 4m
Cells
r2 = 0.79
r2 = 0.88
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REPAIR RATE FOR COMBINED ANGULAR DISTORTION
Asbestos Cement (AC) Pipelines
AND LATERAL STRAIN
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CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF
TENSILE LATERAL GROUND STRAINS
6 in.
Ground Strain
Accommodation
Exceedance
Levels 8.6º
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THERMALLY WELDED PE VS CONVENTIONAL JOINTED
PIPELINE SYSTEMS
Water Distribution System
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LESSONS FROM CHRISTCHURCH
• Extraordinary dataset: multiple EQs, dense ground
motion array, massive liquefaction, high density
LiDAR, geocoded repairs for thousands of km of
different pipelines
• First time comprehensive assessment of
underground lifeline response to liquefaction-
induced differential vertical movement and lateral
strain
• Unified methodology for building & lifeline damage
vs differential vertical & lateral ground movements
PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE
TOPIC
• Impact on Communities
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120 km2
San
Francisco
5 km
N
200 km
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EARTHQUAKE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE BOND
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SAN FRANCISCO AUXILLIARY WATER SUPPLY
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
• 7.8 Mw
Deterministic EQ
• Water Demands in
Fire Response
Areas
• Monte Carlo AWSS
Network
Simulations
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SUMMARY
• Coupled Soil-Pipe Forces for Soil-Pipeline Analysis
• Link Between Lateral Soil-Pipe Force and Pipe
Surface Frictional Resistance
• Methodology for Soil-Pipe Interaction in Granular Soil
for Any Pipe Movement Direction and Depth
• Vertical Downward Pipe Force Significantly Less Than
Conventional Bearing Capacity
• Soil Suction Effects
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SUMMARY
• Guidance on Beam vs Shell Analysis for Soil-Pipe
Interaction. Transverse Distortion Important for
Diameters > 600 mm (Steel and Cast Iron)
• Next Generation Hazard Resilient Pipelines
• Canterbury EQ Sequence As Large-Scale Lab for
Characterizing Liquefaction Ground Deformation
• Unified Methodology for Pipeline and Building
Response to Soil Settlement and Lat’l. Displacement
• Impact on Communities
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