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Ground strain estimation for lifeline earthquake engineering

  • Koike, Takeshi;Maruyama, Osamu;Garciano, Lessandro Estelito
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.291-310
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    • 2007
  • Current seismic design guidelines in Japan are diverse in the seismic ground strain estimates, because the concepts on a horizontally propagating wave model are not consistent in various seismic design guidelines including gas, water and other underground structures. The purpose of this study is (a) to derive the analytical methods to estimate the ground strains for incident seismic waves, (b) to develop a statistical estimation technique of the ground strains, and finally (c) to compare the theoretical estimation with the observed data which was measured at 441 sites in the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake in Taiwan.

Effects of Freezing a Backfill Material under Undrained Condition on a Buried Pipe (포화 사질토 뒷채움재의 비배수 동결에 의한 매설 강관의 거동 - 실대형 모형실험 연구 -)

  • Kang, Jae-Mo;Lee, Jang-Guen;Kim, Hak-Seung;Lee, Sang-Yoon;Ryu, Byung-Hyun;Cho, Nam-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.30 no.8
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2014
  • Frost heaving and thawing settlement cause unexpected stress around buried pipelines, which results in deformation and permanent demage. A large scale laboratory test has been performed to observe deformation, stress, and temperature of a buried pipe during atmospheric temperature changes. From the experimental results, the stress concentrated around the buried pipe is inevitable and deformation is caused by the frost heaving. Even though backfill materials are sandy soils which are normally assumed to be non frost susceptible, it is revealed that frost demage can happen due to drainage condition, the level of ground water table, and water content.

Correlation Analysis of the Occurrence of Ground Subsidence According to the Density of Underground Pipelines (지중관로 매설 밀집도에 따른 지반함몰 발생 상관 분석)

  • Kim, Jinyoung;Kang, Jaemo;Choi, Changho
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2021
  • Recently, ground subsidence has been steadily occurring mainly in downtown areas, threatening the safety of citizens. Under the road, various underground facilities such as water supply pipe, sewage pipe, and communication pipe are buried. Due to the aging of these underground facilities and the reckless development of the underground, it is acting as a cause of ground subsidence. Although there is a result of analyzing the risk of ground subsidence according to the deterioration of the existing pipeline, there is no result of analyzing the risk of ground subsidence using the density of pipelines indicating ground disturbance. Therefore, in this study, the density of the underground space was analyzed using the data of six types of representative underground pipelines in Seoul, and a study was conducted on whether there is a correlation with the ground subsidence. As a result, it was found that the density of underground facilities is high in the area where the ground subsidence occurred, indicating that the density of pipelines have an effect on the ground subsidence.

Comparative Analysis on the Causes and Frequency of Recent Gas Pipelines Accidents in Major Overseas Countries (해외 주요국에서의 최근 가스배관 사고의 원인과 빈도의 비교 분석)

  • Kim, Dae-Woong;Bae, Kyung-Oh;Shin, Hyung-Seop;Kim, Woo-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2018
  • Natural gas is an explosive fluid and can cause severe human/material damage when buried high-pressure pipeline is failure, and there have been reported cases of considerable human life damage to actual buried pipeline failure. In domestic cases, the length and duration of pipeline operating are short due to rapid growth. Therefore, it is a fact that the establishment of effective accident data is insufficient for the cause of the accident. In order to systematically construct an accident database, the operation history of natural gas pipeline is longer than domestic, and the cause and frequency analysis of recent natural gas pipeline related accidents occurred in overseas major countries with a long pipeline network was conducted. Then, after grasping the trend of occurrence frequency by incident cause, we tried to establish the foundation for securing the stability of the domestic high-pressure gas transport pipeline network.

Study on the Influence of Stray current Between Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection and Impressed Current Cathodic Protection in Marine Environment

  • Jeong, Jin-A;Kim, Ki-Joon
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.77-81
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    • 2012
  • Cathodic protection(CP) is widely used as a means of protecting corrosion for not only marine structures like ship hulls and offshore drilling facilities, but also underground structures like buried pipelines and oil storage tanks. The principle of CP is that the anodic dissolution of metal can be protected by supplying electrons to the cathode metal. When unprotected structures are nearby to CP systems, interference problems between unprotected and protected structures may be happened. The stray current interference can accelerate the corrosion of nearby structures. So far many efforts have been made to reduce the interference in the electric railway systems adjacent to the underground metal structures like buried pipelines and gas/oil tanks. During recent few decades the protection technologies against stray current induced corrosion have been significantly improved and a number of techniques have been developed. However, there is very limited information an marine environments. Some complex harbor structures are protected by two cathodic protection systems, i.e. sacrificial anode cathodic protection(SACP) and impressed current cathodic protection(ICCP). In this case, when the protection current from sacrificial anodes returns to the cathode through electrolyte, it passes through nearby other low resistance metal structures. In many cases the stray current of ICCP systems influences the function of SACP. In this study, the risk of stray current from the SACP system to adjacent reinforced concrete structures has been verified through laboratory experiments. Concrete and steel pile structures modeled a part of bridge have been investigated in terms of CP potential and current between the two. The variation of stray current according to the magnitude of ICCP/SACP has been studied to mitigate it and to suggest the proper protection criteria.

Pipeline deformation caused by double curved shield tunnel in soil-rock composite stratum

  • Ning Jiao;Xing Wan;Jianwen Ding;Sai Zhang;Jinyu Liu
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.131-143
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    • 2024
  • Shield tunneling construction commonly crosses underground pipelines in urban areas, resulting in soil loss and followed deformation of grounds and pipelines nearby, which may threaten the safe operation of shield tunneling. This paper investigated the pipeline deformation caused by double curved shield tunnels in soil-rock composite stratum in Nanjing, China. The stratum settlement equation was modified to consider the double shield tunneling. Moreover, a three dimensional finite element model was established to explore the effects of hard-layer ratio, tunnel curvature radius, pipeline buried depth and other influencing factors. The results indicate the subsequent shield tunnel would cause secondary disturbance to the soil around the preceding tunnel, resulting in increased pipeline and ground surface settlement above the preceding tunnel. The settlement and stress of the pipeline increased gradually as buried depth of the pipeline increased or the hard-layer ratio (the ratio of hard-rock layer thickness to shield tunnel diameter within the range of the tunnel face) decreased. The modified settlement calculation equation was consistent with the measured data, which can be applied to the settlement calculation of ground surface and pipeline settlement. The modified coefficients a and b ranged from 0.45 to 0.95 and 0.90 to 1.25, respectively. Moreover, the hard-layer ratio had the most significant influence on the pipeline settlement, but the tunnel curvature radius and the included angle between pipeline and tunnel axis played a dominant role in the scope of the pipeline settlement deformation.